5/28/2023 0 Comments Flatterland![]() ![]() ![]() So I have stopped reading this, and moved on to Wait Till Helen Comes which is completely different but entirely cake. Beans are beans and cake is cake and the two don't mix well. I eagerly bit into it, encountered beans, and threw up. Here's an analogy (Stewart likes those, he wrote a whole book about them, in a way): this book reminds me of the time I was four years old, and my father, frustrated with my stubborn refusal to eat green beans, took away my plate and stuffed the beans in a chocolate cake and served me the cake. And if I want non-fiction science, I'll read non-fiction science, thank you very much. ostensibly SF (or fantasy), in that Flatland doesn't exist, but since the frame story is so obviously a pretext for a lecture on math, I ended up labelling it non-fiction science, essentially. In fact, when I came to assign a genre category, I was flummoxed. Not fun to read (and I absolutely adored Flatland). ![]()
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