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A review by omniscientreader
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Misogynistic. Almost every men in here has a lust for women. And there is this one man who witness his crewmate r*pe his female crewmate and still hadn't done anything until that "thing" happen again and this r*pe victim still feel concerned on wether her abuser died! I don't understand why is she still seeing him after that 1st incident. I love the concept of "World of Myth" but what is this shit. Every single women in this collection of short stories here were addressed as a wh*re, a slut, and an object for pleasure. I would have have give this book 4 stars only if it weren't misogynistic. I am not saying that the author is misogynistic-in fact I am trying hard not to judge him based on how his characters views women-means, I am addresssing the characters as a misogynist not the author himself.
I don't know if ever I'll consider this stories as a sci-fi? It doesn't seem very sci-fi. Sure, it do contains some elements of science fiction such as the world building, and those futuristic objects, and unexplainble creatures and powers, but the plot didn't felt sci-fi. Harlan Ellison had a very strange vocabulary, I don't understand some words he is using-I feel like he made up those words, because Google can't even give me meaning of those obscure words. I do like how he tells the story, as everyone was saying, it felt very dream-like. It felt very transcendental while still giving you a headache.
My favorite story in here is "Eye of Dust". I don't really like "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" that much-it's great-but it's very disturbing and haunting. It haunt me at 3 A.M.-the morning after I finished reading "IHNMAIMS". The last 3 short stories, I didn't quite understand-as if I wanted to understand it? I am extremely pissed with the misogyny of the characters that I badly wanna bang my laptop, I didn't care if I did understand those remaining stories or not, all I ever wanted was to finish the book. I have no plans on rereading this book not even in the next twenty lifetimes.
I don't know if ever I'll consider this stories as a sci-fi? It doesn't seem very sci-fi. Sure, it do contains some elements of science fiction such as the world building, and those futuristic objects, and unexplainble creatures and powers, but the plot didn't felt sci-fi. Harlan Ellison had a very strange vocabulary, I don't understand some words he is using-I feel like he made up those words, because Google can't even give me meaning of those obscure words. I do like how he tells the story, as everyone was saying, it felt very dream-like. It felt very transcendental while still giving you a headache.
My favorite story in here is "Eye of Dust". I don't really like "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" that much-it's great-but it's very disturbing and haunting. It haunt me at 3 A.M.-the morning after I finished reading "IHNMAIMS". The last 3 short stories, I didn't quite understand-as if I wanted to understand it? I am extremely pissed with the misogyny of the characters that I badly wanna bang my laptop, I didn't care if I did understand those remaining stories or not, all I ever wanted was to finish the book. I have no plans on rereading this book not even in the next twenty lifetimes.
Content Warnings
Minor: Rape