A review by ashleylm
They'd Rather Be Right by Frank Riley, M.W. Carroll, Mark Clifton
2.0
Not completely horrible, but not engaging enough to want to keep reading after I gave it the old college try (35 pages or so). The author's style is both plain-spoken and verbose, so many long, uninteresting passages, instead of long, poetic passages, or short, interesting passages, either of which would be preferable.
The machine that they built might as well be called McGuffin for all the sense it made. Any account of it's conception, creation, or effect is essentially pointless. (I prefer science fiction to either be especially pointed--let's change this 1 thing and see what would happen--or admittedly space opera--let's just go have fun in a future universe setting.)
The opening sequence of our protagonist misdirecting detectives was interesting enough, but the morass quickly set in, and with about 1,000 unread books on my own bookshelves, I'm sure I can find something more suited to my tastes.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve!
The machine that they built might as well be called McGuffin for all the sense it made. Any account of it's conception, creation, or effect is essentially pointless. (I prefer science fiction to either be especially pointed--let's change this 1 thing and see what would happen--or admittedly space opera--let's just go have fun in a future universe setting.)
The opening sequence of our protagonist misdirecting detectives was interesting enough, but the morass quickly set in, and with about 1,000 unread books on my own bookshelves, I'm sure I can find something more suited to my tastes.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve!