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Old 04-06-2018, 04:01 AM   #27058
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Originally Posted by astrangerhere View Post
I don't know that I would have said Disneyland, but it did feel very much like a knock-off of Firefly. I get that her point was all about "Found Family," but I agree that it was too saccharine. This book, however, is much more about finding yourself and understanding what it means to be a person. I think it also helped that the cast was primarily limited to two people, instead of the 5 or 6 in the first book.
I've not seen Firefly. But now that you mention it, I realise that I picked up The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet expecting a novel, but got a TV series. What I thought was the main plot (the mysterious angry planet) was just a way to link the episodes together, somewhere for them to be going and something for a big finale in the last episode. The book is well written, but not what I was expecting and that has coloured my reaction.
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