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robopocalypse - Review

9/20/2012

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RobopocalypseRobopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Stopped after 200 pages. More a matter of needing to return it to the library than it being terrible. However, the style was a little grating. First person accounts "pieced together" from this recording or that transcript so as to carry out the narrative. However, the prose is overly descriptive for first-person accounts in a supposed war zone. It's as if every character was a wanna-be novelist. Dialogue was stilted, clunky and mostly awful. Wilson's strengths are in his IDEAS rather than the story he's telling.

Should make for a good movie in the hands of a better screenwriter and director. I've heard Spielberg but I kept thinking of Neill Blomkamp (District 9) and how he would nail it. The movie would need a grittiness that I think he'd provide.

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