Hell Ship

DЯUNK REVIEW #? (prob the second this year, i guess) so before i went out to fuckin drinks with my favorite fuckin co-worker, i had a short convo with another co-worker, a seasoned mom who knows her fuckin way around teens because she's raised three of them. she gave me a fuckin warning: mark, you cu......more

I'm not sure what to make of this. In many ways it's wonderfully creative -- its aliens are alien, it's a quick read, the whole idea feels fresh... But it's also gory for seemingly the sake of being gory, there's very little of hope, and there's very little point to all the riches he creates except......more

Hell Ship was the 4th Palmer novel that I've read and I had fairly high expectations. Palmer's unique SF style, visceral, shocking and punchy writing style really 'caught' with me and I quickly became a fan. Hell Ship has a great premise (I give nothing away here the back of the book doesn't); an ali......more

Hell Ship is a hell of a book. It's chock full of graphic, over the top violence, wanton murder and destruction, certainly the most graphic swearing in one book ever and probably the highest body count in a book ever. And for all it's one of the most sophisticatedly philosphical books I've had the p......more

"I found it," said the reviewer, "very irritating how dialogue was often split arbitrarily, with no consideration of clause or phrasing. "It reminded," he continued, "me of a Year 6 child trying to vary speech sentences unsuccessfully. "When it happens on every," he sighed, "page, it gets extremely an......more