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The book is written in a way that quite often ends right in the middle of a train of thought. Reading on a kindle it was hard to work out if it was intentional or if there was a problem with the Kindle edition! After a while I got used to it, and learnt to just to either let go of the sentiment or ignore it.

The story uses time jumping *a lot* but thankfully the book is written in a way that it was easy to know when we had jumped back or forwards through time.
The story uses time jumping *a lot* ,but thankfully the book is written in a way that it was easy to know when we had jumped back or forwards through time.

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Don't know about English comma rules, but in any case, if there should be a comma, then it should be before the space

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The story uses time jumping *a lot* ,but thankfully the book is written in a way that it was easy to know when we had jumped back or forwards through time.
The story uses time jumping *a lot*, but thankfully the book is written in a way that it was easy to know when we had jumped back or forwards through time.


The story is set in a dystopian alternative reality, which frankly isn't far from our reality now and it's easy to see how our society could get there. Which makes the entire story even more scary.

The story primarily follows Theo Miller a person who has lived in the world as it becomes worse and just gone along with it because "that's just the way the world works".

He weighs crime for indemnity, of course rape has a power indemnity than sexual harassment (because… Men made the rules
He weighs crime for indemnity, of course rape has a power indemnity than sexual harassment (because… Men made the rules)
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I'll never tire of how board the Murderbot is!

I've read every one of the Murderbot diaries and have always enjoyed the fresh take on a bot that's painted in world where people distrust them by default, and yet the Murderbot would rather avoid eye contact, shy away and watch their streaming TV series on their own.
I've read every one of the Murderbot diaries and have always enjoyed the fresh take on a bot that's painted in a world where people distrust them by default, and yet the Murderbot would rather avoid eye contact, shy away and watch their streaming TV series on their own.

As the books have evolved, it's fun that Murderbot knows that I'm reading their diary and often breaks the "fourth wall" to speak to us, or share how they'd much rather be doing something else.

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I'm not into reading memoirs (or biographies for that matter) but it seems I've started 2021 with two ([Lenny Henry's](https://remysharp.com/books/2021/who-am-i-again) at the start of the year).

Generally I enjoy James Acaster's comedy and his Scrapes collection does have it's laughs. There isn't really much meat to the book but it's good light reading (with literal laugh out louds).
Generally I enjoy James Acaster's comedy and his Scrapes collection does have it's laughs. There isn't really much meat to the book, but it's good light reading (with literal laugh out louds).

Acaster also has a distinctive style if you've seen him on screen so in reading his stories, Acaster's voice really leaps from the words on the page.

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Interesting, but found I got lost in the timeline of the story quite often.

I _really_ wanted to enjoy Remote Control a lot more than I did. It was well written and initially the character of Fatima, aka Sankofa, aka _"adopted daughter of the Angel of Death"_ was really interesting. I wanted to know more about them.
I _really_ wanted to enjoy Remote Control a lot more than I did. It was well written and initially the character of Fatima, aka Sankofa, aka _"adopted daughter of the Angel of Death"_ was fascinating. I wanted to know more about them.

If I'm honest though, I completely lost track of the timeline, I think half way through the book I jumped around in time and I wasn't sure if the story was being told from the past or the present and it left me a little confused as to where the character was up to.
If I'm honest though, I completely lost track of the timeline, I think halfway through the book I jumped around in time and I wasn't sure if the story was being told from the past or the present and it left me a little confused as to where the character was up to.

It was also strange (to me certainly) that Sankofa's family could be killed and they live in their mother's home whilst the mother's body is rotting (maggot detail to boot) - and yet this doesn't phase Sankofa - or at least it didn't come across to me.

Still, as I said, the story was well written and though I couldn't entire emphasis with the character, Sankofa is an interesting character all the same - even if I'm left wanting to know a _lot_ more about them. (and like, what was the deal with the fox??!)
Still, as I said, the story was well written and though I couldn't have entire emphasis with the character, Sankofa is an interesting character all the same - even if I'm left wanting to know a _lot_ more about them. (and like, what was the deal with the fox??!)
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The mission is entirely a discovery exercise, not "the Earth is doomed, we must quickly find new home" which so many stories would shoot for. So the book tells of the crew landing across four different planets and what they find and tell of their enthusiasm in science and real human struggles in confined spaces.

This is a gentle and easy read, and for me, treated as something to tide me over until the next novel length Wayfarers is released - but equally a solid story on it's own merits.
This is a gentle and easy read, and for me, treated as something to tide me over until the next novel length Wayfarers is released - but equally a solid story on its own merits.
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summary: "Growing up with Lenny Henry as a stable diet of light comedy his early years story was enlightening."
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Growing up with Lenny Henry as a stable diet of light comedy his early years story was enlightening.
Growing up with Lenny Henry as a stable diet of light comedy his early years' story was enlightening.

I'm not sure if as a kid I loved or disliked Lenny Henry - he just was a huge space in comedy TV, and now thinking it's probably his work with Comic Relief that I remember more than anything.

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I personally tend to find non-fiction hard to read (or rather it's can be a very slow read for me) but Henry's biography was easier to read - and perhaps because he played such a large part of my childhood TV.

The book ends abruptly at the start of the 1980s - which is really the time I knew Henry from and I felt myself wanting to learn more. Page-wise the book also ends with around 10% remaining, and what remains are tips for new comedians - which I mostly skimmed although there were a small handful of useful items I can imagine it would be valuable to younger comedians.
The book ends abruptly at the start of the 1980s - which is really the time I knew Henry from and I felt myself wanting to learn more. Page-wise the book also ends with around 10% remaining, and what remains are tips for new comedians - which I mostly skimmed, although there were a small handful of useful items I can imagine it would be valuable to younger comedians.
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The story and outlook is pretty bleak: all privacy lost, super corp tracks your every move and uses that information to then manipulate your decisions. Pretty much what we face today, in the early 20s, with Google and Facebook.

For me, I felt like the book started to lose it's momentum around halfway and it felt like the story was stagnating. I wasn't really sure how the antagonist actually ties up with the story, or even if indeed the _were_ the/an antagonist.
For me, I felt like the book started to lose its momentum around halfway and it felt like the story was stagnating. I wasn't really sure how the antagonist actually ties up with the story, or even if indeed the _were_ the/an antagonist.

It also felt to me like it ended abruptly without really being able to say anything. Which might be because we already like in a world where super corp does indeed hold our privacy to random and there's really no escaping it _and_ even then in the face of criminal behaviour (see Brexit campaign and Trump) there's no recourse that the either the law can apply or society seems to want to see actioned. That's to say: it's pretty messed up.