Reviews

The Abolition of Species by Dietmar Dath

friederisiko's review against another edition

challenging tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

saszito's review against another edition

2.0

Es ist eine liebenswert-bizarre Spekulation über eine posthumane Gesellschaft und inwiefern diese gerechter und friedlicher sein könnte. Doch man muss hart arbeiten für derlei Begeisterungsstürme. Die Kaskade an Fremdwörtern (bzw. aus Fremdwörtern neu geschaffene Wörter), welche wiederum eingesperrt scheinen in nicht enden wollende Satzkonstrukte machen die Lektüre zum Frondienst am Erkenntniswert. Ich sehe zweifellos die Gefahr, dass der Leser hier in einer sonderbaren Mischung aus Faszination und Überforderung aufgibt. Und das wäre genauso merkwürdig – so nachvollziehbar wie schade.

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abmgw's review against another edition

5.0

Ein tolles Erlebniss.

cythera15's review

mysterious reflective slow-paced

난 진짜 지식인ふり하는 남자가 너무 싫다.. ㅋ

innashtakser's review against another edition

5.0

Pretty brilliant book laughing at various theories of evolution. Though rather pessimistic in the end, as per the chances of any intelligent species to organize their lives reasonably well. The story is of a post-human Earth which emerged as a result of biotech intervention which made animals intelligent and made some people into intelligent animals. While these consider several attributes of human societies (money, labor division) irrational to the point of insanity, the society they created is too hierarchical not to be very similar to the human ones. While the intelligent animals destroyed the humanity they, in their turn, were attacked by a newly emerging silicon-based intelligent form which made use of human women. The animals had to emigrate and establish colonies on other planets (Mars, Venus). On Mars a society imitative of humanity developed, on Venus there was an ongoing experiment in inducing lizards to constantly fight each other in order to check the hypothesis that aggression is conducive to development of culture. On Earth in the meantime time, at least in theory, became circular. There is also in the last part of the book this story about brother and sister who had some mystical mission and ended up living as a couple on Earth. I found the brother and sister story somewhat less original than the rest of the book.

anatomydetective's review

2.0

I've been forcing myself through this abomination since March. That in itself says something, as I'm generally a pretty fast reader. I lost it in my house and didn't look for it, then was kind of sad when I found it again and felt compelled to finish it. Poorly written, disorganized, utterly dependent on drawn out dialogue instead of actually showing any of the action except for a few scenes. A character starts to become interesting? Oops, they've died.

lunaliz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? No

2.25