Lyle

A repetition of the blurb on the front cover should suffice: "A sense of grandeur few other SF novelists can even hope to match". I am excited to begin reading the sequel.

While the concept of ambigrams and "reversible" font and art was initially intriguing I found the many examples and details that followed to be a bit overwhelming and mind-numbing, in the end. It all began to feel a bit forced; briefly entertained but not really amazed.

While the concept of ambigrams and "reversible" font and art was initially intriguing I found the many examples and details that followed to be a bit overwhelming and mind-numbing, in the end. It all began to feel a bit forced; briefly entertained but not really amazed.

Definitely not for the general public; I was rather disappointed to find out that this book is more suitable for college students than the average non-mathematician. From page one, I found the text to be rather specialized and beyond that commonly in use by the casual reader. The author quite obviously has enthusiasm for the subject matter and provided copious amounts of diagrams and images, but it wasn't enough, sadly.