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I like this book but none of the reviewers I see here seemed to have the same reaction I had to the book.

First off, it is very well written. There are various story threads, following various characters, as they end up in the same place - a future Tel Aviv. It mixes recognizable details with future details - firmly letting you know this is the future but it is a future you can envision. It was a bit confusing at first but it settled down and became clearer after a bit. The future it describes is interesting and believable.

However, the book felt very much like it was setting up this world. If I found out this was going to be the first in a series, it would totally make sense. Everything built to an ending and we did get a kind of ending. We see why these people moved together to be there and we see that many of them were manipulated in a way to get there to do what needed to get done to have that scene.

But the end didn't provide closure. I understand now where they were headed and for what. But it isn't "Ok, that is resolved." It doesn't feel that way at all. At the end I felt "ok... so what does that mean? What is going to happen now?"

I am giving it the 4 stars I want to give if we are going to get another book with some more information. But take it with a grain of salt. If this is the end all and be all... it feels unfinished.

Based on the other reviews, maybe it is only me. But I need some closure. Or some direction as to where these people are going from here.


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Central Station Lavie Tidhar 9781616962142 Books Reviews

The setting in a future Tel Aviv/Jaffa is amazingly well painted. The melding of human and machine at the core of things is shocking but at the same time sensible given the hints of it we see now. Characters are reasonably well drawn though a bit conventional.
The problem with this novel is the weak plot which, despite huge potential, essentially has no real path. The book reads like a series of short stories (more like prose poems) linked together by the setting. It is the kind of book critics might decide to love but is nearly unreadable. Or maybe the whole thing flew over my head.
Central Station could be called a pulpy meandering Sci-fi genre mash'em up told from the perspective of multiple characters centered around a small community found in a larger city in the far future. And while that's what it is, to call it meandering is both accurate and to miss that it's quite well edited and never runs over it's course or feels like it's ever really getting off track. To call it pulpy is both accurate and to miss that it doesn't obsess over it's own silliness, the ideas herein are fun but they never take over the story unless they're actually part of the story. To call it a genre mashe'em up is accurate, the characters herein spin off on their own lives and while there's a lot of different activities; but Central Station is also one of those rare stories that can keep them all coherent without feeling like it's shifting tone all over the place.

If there's one criticism, and I suppose you could call it a big one, it's merely that the actual central plot feels slight and somewhat unimportant. We never spend enough time with any one character, or really get close enough to them, to become entirely attached to them even though we like them. And the central thread of the story, while interesting in the unfolding, doesn't feel like it offers anything huge in the way of surprise or depth or etc. So that's Central Station, a well written, well thought out, well put together piece who's skill only finds lack in that what it's putting up is passing entertainment instead of something grander.
This novel is basically a "fix up" with most of the chapters previously published as short stories. The author, I am sure, did some rewriting but often the chapters seem a bit disjointed. One is reminded of attending a school fair where one walks down a hall and can visit each room and see different things the students are doing or learning. The author spends a great deal of time on world building and due to the book construction a lot of this is repetitious. The individual chapters (stories) are good, just often only somewhat connected. The author displays a remarkably good use of language through out the book and reading this is one of the highlights of the book. As for reading some of the authors other work, I am not sure, there is a lot of good literature out there and depending on the time you have to read his might be nearer the bottom on selection. I guess I would rate it as just ok.
I like this book but none of the reviewers I see here seemed to have the same reaction I had to the book.

First off, it is very well written. There are various story threads, following various characters, as they end up in the same place - a future Tel Aviv. It mixes recognizable details with future details - firmly letting you know this is the future but it is a future you can envision. It was a bit confusing at first but it settled down and became clearer after a bit. The future it describes is interesting and believable.

However, the book felt very much like it was setting up this world. If I found out this was going to be the first in a series, it would totally make sense. Everything built to an ending and we did get a kind of ending. We see why these people moved together to be there and we see that many of them were manipulated in a way to get there to do what needed to get done to have that scene.

But the end didn't provide closure. I understand now where they were headed and for what. But it isn't "Ok, that is resolved." It doesn't feel that way at all. At the end I felt "ok... so what does that mean? What is going to happen now?"

I am giving it the 4 stars I want to give if we are going to get another book with some more information. But take it with a grain of salt. If this is the end all and be all... it feels unfinished.

Based on the other reviews, maybe it is only me. But I need some closure. Or some direction as to where these people are going from here.