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A gift for Andrew

>>8108795
Actually following on from this, did anyone else think that Siren's of Titan was really, really shit?

The entire book was arse for me. The only cool thing was the Dr. Manhetten-esc main superhero guy. The rest was stupid.

The martians were stupid.
The mind control ships, conveniently allowing the control of other men was less stupid but still.
The Martian invasion of Earth was stupid.
The entire section of the book on Venus, with the manta ray creatures was stupid.
The final chapter which suddenly introduces aliens was stupid as well.
Oh my god, the bit where Dr Manhatten is having a conversation with Tony Stark and Tony tells him he fucked his wife, and the reason he got angry despite his deal being he knows the entire future, was that he was putting it off for later.
And the supposed twist at the end, about how the landmarks of Earth like the Great Wall of China were an alien language was some of the dumbest shit I've ever read.

The themes of free will weren't even that prolific. I hardly found myself questioning anything the entire book.
actually >>8108764 don't read it because fuck me it's shit.

Am I missing something? I went into this book ready to enjoy myself and just got angry.