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smartflutist661's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Very much in the spirit of Hitchhiker's Guide, though with a bit more emotional backing: amusingly absurd, with a nice reflection on the "road not taken". For related watching, see the anime Legend of Black Heaven.
fatucarballo's review against another edition
2.0
Que decepción de libro, de verdad. Te lo venden como si fuera Eurovisión en el espacio donde los competidores son representantes de cada planeta y quien pierda queda exterminado... ¿Por que? Porque le dio la gana a la autora.
No me gustó nada como esta narrado, los capítulos que te meten contando la historia de los otros planetas son aburridisimos y pesados, no entiendes ni la mitad de las cosas que pasan porque está fatal escrito y, además, la relación te la venden LGTB pero claro al ser entre un humano y un extraterrestre... ¿que me estas insinuando?
Nada nada, que no me gusto, me arrepiento de haber pagado por él.
No me gustó nada como esta narrado, los capítulos que te meten contando la historia de los otros planetas son aburridisimos y pesados, no entiendes ni la mitad de las cosas que pasan porque está fatal escrito y, además, la relación te la venden LGTB pero claro al ser entre un humano y un extraterrestre... ¿que me estas insinuando?
Nada nada, que no me gusto, me arrepiento de haber pagado por él.
multilingual_s's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
The hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy meets the Eurovision song contest. There was not that much if a plot or tension really, but in it's place there was a lot of world building and fresh concepts for aliens. And it was just outright funny.
delanyama's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
paperbookslove's review against another edition
3.0
This is a really fun book in the style of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The writing style at times veers too much into the same absurdist British style as Douglas Addams and it feels like more like copying it than putting their own personal twist on it. Overall though, it's pretty entertaining and I love the idea of an intergalactic Eurovision. I am a sucker for stories imagining what life in space would be like so maybe I'm biased.
jbaty's review against another edition
2.0
I imagine Catherynne Valente thought to herself...
If you throw a lot of words at me, all trying to be super funny, a few of them will land. But when you do it in every single sentence with no guidance at all from an actual plot or characters, it becomes exhausting. So exhausting, in fact, that I stopped reading about 2/3rds of the way through.
I think I'll write something sort of like Douglas Adams, but with MORE!
If you throw a lot of words at me, all trying to be super funny, a few of them will land. But when you do it in every single sentence with no guidance at all from an actual plot or characters, it becomes exhausting. So exhausting, in fact, that I stopped reading about 2/3rds of the way through.
sheila_the_glasser's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Funny, poignant, full of glitter. Beautiful and stupid like life itself. An amazing ride from start to finish.