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Pills And Starships (2014)

by Lydia Millet(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1617752762 (ISBN13: 9781617752766)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Black Sheep

review 1: I keep reading YA novels inadvertently (Kindle store makes it pretty easy to do no research), so I figured I should go ahead and read the debut YA effort by an (adult) author I tend to treasure. This was ok, but I was expecting a darker spin on the genre. (And sub-genre; if we're going to get post-apocalytpic, let's get post-apocalytpic.) Main character was pretty limp and languid, just a flashlight on her rebellious "hacker brother" character. Could it make money as a movie? Yes.
review 2: A brief rant re: this book. 1) No more exposition conducted by way of a letter to an imagined alien floating in a starship above earth. If you need to explain the conditions of a future world to your readers, please make the explanation not feel like a terrible forcefeeding.... more 2) No more eco-fables that involve teenage girls discovering the beauty of the natural world that was by crushing on a native Hawaiian. Ick. 3) I am not sure why this book exists. I know Millet is widely loved by a discerning class of intellectuals, but teens don't know that, and if they want to read future dystopia, why not give them Atwood's MaddAdam trilogy, which at least is fully plotted and characterized, as opposed to this brief/faint tale? And if they can't handle Atwood, then they probably are already reading Divergent and skipping over a narrative where the teen's parents are committing institutional suicide for the bulk of the story. Rant concluded. less

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