Review: The Stars My Destination
User Review - Mike Moore - GoodreadsTheodore Sturgeon famously opined that 90% of everything is poop (he didn't say "poop"). This has been widely quoted as Sturgeons law. There should be a complementary law that within any genre, there ... Read full review
Review: The Stars My Destination
User Review - Zepp - GoodreadsI can easily align myself with readers who view this novel as a seminal transition between the Golden Age and the New Wave, but I can't quite swallow its iconic status, at least not as a transcendant ... Read full review
Review: The Stars My Destination
User Review - Cloudwalker - GoodreadsThe Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester Yes, another old scifi novel, and one of the best imho. There is no doubt that Mr. Bester knows how to tell a story, and that is by letting his characters ... Read full review
Review: The Stars My Destination
User Review - Steve - GoodreadsThe Stars My Destination is probably the best (and least dated) of the sci-fi classics that I've read so far. Written in 1956, its influence must of been huge. Clockwork Orange (1962), Dune, Philip K ... Read full review
Review: The Stars My Destination
User Review - GoodreadsFrom the back cover: “EDUCATION: NONE. SKILLS: NONE. MERITS: NONE. RECOMMENDATIONS: NONE” So reads Gully Foyle's Merchant Marine card. But Gully has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless ...
Review: The Stars My Destination
User Review - JD - GoodreadsMy friend Sandi asked me to elaborate on why I loved this book, so here goes: I loved the detailed, fully realized, and darkly twisted universe that Bester built. I loved his furious anti-hero. I ... Read full review
Review: The Stars My Destination
User Review - Adam - GoodreadsFast and furious and blackly comedic similiar to early Vonnegut or Jack Vance mixed with the bitter surrealism of Finney's "Circus of Doctor Lao", this book predicted and influenced trends like the ... Read full review
