Ignacy
Luźna i szybka lektura. Całkiem zabawna — uśmiałem się kilkukrotnie (słyszalnie). Humor raczej groteskowo-absurdalny, ale akurat taki lubię. Jestem fanem Walentego.
Quick and easy read. Quite funny - I laughed out loud several times. The humor is rather absurd or grotesque, which is, just so happen, what I like. I'm a big fan of Valentin.
Tekst szalenie ciekawy nie był, ale obrazki ładne. Nie miałem pojęcia, że Polska tak stała plakatem. Niektóre z nich chętnie powiesiłbym w mieszkaniu. Kawał sztuki.
The book was introduced to me as an example of a setting on a tidally locked planet. Well it was set on a tidally locked planet, but it was utterly incidental, irrelevant to the plot and hardly explored. The book is technically sci-fi, but it could just as well have been written as fantasy, and it wouldn't have changed a thing. And all of it would have been fine if I just could connect with the characters or felt invested in the story.
To be perfectly honest the premise of this book does most of the heavy lifting. There were exciting moments, but there were also less exciting. Some parts were even frustrating. I was unticipating certain description of the resolution and they were completely skipped over. But all in all I enjoyed mostly because the life on a pulsar is an immensly interesting concept to wonder about.
It was all right, but nothing special. The writing style was fine in my opinion; it was easy and quite pleasant to read. The main problem I had with this book was that I wasn't able to suspend my disbelief. I constantly questioned the characters' motivations and the plausibility of the imagined world. If I were physically able to raise my eyebrow, it would have been raised at least a dozen times. I didn't expect the ending as it was, but it wasn't satisfying. At least the characters were mildly interesting. In my mind, the book had the potential to explore more of the psychological side of the story. It did some exploring, but ultimately, it was mostly uninspired and unsatisfying.
It's a good book for somebody who's not well accustomed to the scientific way of thinking. Personally, I didn't find many new concepts in Sagan's work. Also, the debunking of conspiracy theories seemed boring to me after a few chapters, this could have been written in another book.