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Books : The Last Starship from EarthIn association with Amazon.comby: John Boyd  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 823 EAN: 9780140048759 ISBN: 0140048758 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Pages: 182 Publication Date: March 30, 1978 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Sales Rank: 1354735 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Nothing entertaining here...Unquestionably one of the dumbest novels I've ever read. Certainly the dumbest I've ever actually finished reading. Many times I wanted to put it down and walk away, but something told me that I needed to see how it was going to end. The first two-thirds of it were okay - mildly interesting, but never exciting. I kept hoping it was going to build into something that would justify its strangeness - something that was going to pull it together and make it all make perfect sense. But it just spiraled ... Read More Rating:  - You've got to be kidding me...Those other reviews, I mean. The ones that fall all over themselves praising this book. I had heard good things about it, but when I finally got around to reading it I found it a great disappointment and a novel I labored mightily to finish. To be honest, I really don't understand what the excitement is all about. The novel starts out as a cliched dystopia, the kind where people are split into rigid castes and go around with names like Hirsute 5, A-6, 33411-CR-445. After a while, we learn that this is ... Read More Rating:  - Brilliant Science Fiction for the Fun Loving Reader and Literary Critic AlikeThe Last Starship From Earth (1968) by John Boyd Upchurch - 182 pages - rating: 8/10 What do you get when a Poet, Historian, Social Critic and Scholar of Literature decides to write the classic Science Fiction story ? You get The Last Starship From Earth. I must be honest and tell you that I almost quit reading this novel after the first 60 or 70 pages. It seemed nothing more than word games and poetic gobbledy goop. By the end of the fifth chapter nothing of any interest or ... Read More Rating:  - my favorite novelJohn Boyd wrote that his ideal reader "should have the mentality of a Southern stock-car racer, be a Baptist with a sense of detachment, have a well-developed sense of the absurd, and be fascinated with the quirks and accomplishments of the human animal." His dystopian novel, The Last Starship from Earth, is witty, intelligent, playful, subtle, ingenious, and evocative. I've read it many times over the last twenty years. Boyd's later books, although interesting, never equalled this debut effort, which ... Read More Rating: - a very good readI picked up a copy of this book because it looked like it would appeal to me as a nice piece of 1960's pulp scifi. And while this book had a light pulp feel to it, the story surprised me quite a bit. This is definitely a fun book to read through, and is one that you can read through more than once and get a different perspective each time. Pick up the book, it's a lesser known jewel of the science fiction genre. Browse for similar items by category:
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