(no subject)

[telophase]

Redshirts, by John Scalzi: Fun read. It sort-of went where I expected it to, but it was a fun ride getting there, so I wasn't disappointed. And the Three Codas at the end -- basically, three additional short stories that move on from the events of the novel -- take the time to explore the philosophical and emotional aspects of the story that the story itself didn't get to do (because they would have been out of place and from the wrong characters' P.O.V.)

Enjoyable.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Hmm, good to know. Most mentions I've seen of the three codas say to skip them, or that one or two of them ruin the rest of the story, but I wonder whether those readers suffered too great a breach of expectation.

[telophase]

Ruin the rest of the story...? Well, if you don't like your essentially lighthearted romp to be dragged down into thinking about how the events of the story actually affected non-protagonist characters in somewhat serious ways, maybe. But I liked them as a way to put some thinky thoughts into events -- and as a way to explore one of the points of the book (minor characters having lives of their own) in a more serious way without stuffing it into the lighter parts of the book and making them slow way, way down.

[thistleingrey]

Makes sense!

[telophase]

I think Scalzi was effectively writing fanfic of his own book. XD

[thistleingrey]

That's an inducement to read!