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A review by cshawver
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
1.0
When picking out books to read, especially science fiction I always look for cool titles and cool covers, so when I came across The Reality Dysfunction, an arguably cool title, I was sold and immediately picked it up. That was my first mistake.
For a non-spoiler review, this book is a mess and a half, and reads like five separate books were blended together and out came this book. While the book is a little under a thousand pages long, it takes a good third of the book before the “plot” starts to develop, and a story actually starts to form. Besides the horrendously long time for anything interesting to happen, Peter F. Hamilton writes in characters and places in such excruciating details that when they are introduced the next ten pages are dedicated to their entire history only for them to never be brought up in the book again. But besides being utterly exhausted trying to read this book, my biggest problem comes from the casual racism, the pedophilia and grooming, the blatant Christian propaganda, and random comments about how characters wish incest was legal. The author should be put on a watch list and not let within a hundred yards of a school. If I could give a book zero stars I would.
For a non-spoiler review, this book is a mess and a half, and reads like five separate books were blended together and out came this book. While the book is a little under a thousand pages long, it takes a good third of the book before the “plot” starts to develop, and a story actually starts to form. Besides the horrendously long time for anything interesting to happen, Peter F. Hamilton writes in characters and places in such excruciating details that when they are introduced the next ten pages are dedicated to their entire history only for them to never be brought up in the book again. But besides being utterly exhausted trying to read this book, my biggest problem comes from the casual racism, the pedophilia and grooming, the blatant Christian propaganda, and random comments about how characters wish incest was legal. The author should be put on a watch list and not let within a hundred yards of a school. If I could give a book zero stars I would.