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+title = "Chthon - Piers Anthony"
+date = 2019-09-13
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+tags = ["books", "reviews", "en-au", "piers anthony", "scifi"]
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+[Goodreads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23352267-chthon):
+Chthon was Piers Anthony’s first published novel in 1967, written over the
+course of seven years. He started it when he was in the US Army, so it has a
+long prison sequence that is reminiscent of that experience, being dark and
+grim. It features Aton Five, a space man who commits the crime of falling in
+love with the dangerous, alluring Minionette and is therefore condemned to
+death in the subterranean prison of Chthon. It uses flashbacks to show how he
+came to know the Minionette, and flash-forwards to show how he dealt with her
+after his escape from prison. The author regards this as perhaps the most
+intricately structured novel the science fantasy genre has seen. It was a
+contender for awards, but not a winner.
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+A lot it is said about this book about its narrative structure, starting in
+the "present" and then doing flashbacks explaining some point (sometimes) and
+then showing the future in "flash forwards". The thing is, "flash forwards"
+don't feel like "flash forwards"; the simply appear as if the future is the
+present and the present became a flashback.
+
+Also, the flashbacks sometimes are not explanative and a bit too long. The
+very first one doesn't explain anything about the current state of the story,
+and it is so long you have to wonder if the story actually moved back or it is
+talking about something else.
+
+There is also some weird jumps in the story that made me feel like I skipped a
+whole page for some unknown reason, and I had to track back, see that I didn't
+skip anything and the story simply did a (small) jump in the plot.
+
+The characters are really bland. One of the topics, the fact that a race
+actually feels hate as love (and no, that's not a spoiler, 'cause you don't
+know who I'm talking about), is actually really bad explained and explored --
+and the weird fact that, as the author puts in the post words in the end, that
+was the origin of the book.