Brit

Great start, then got annoying with the forced marriage. Stopped reading, may consider flipping forward and reading if the marriage junk disappears.

Interesting enough, but the tone put me off. Some of the humor seemed lightly disrespectful or goofy to me, little side quips to take the edge off of the serious subject. Which I would have expected myself to enjoy, but it was a different sense of humor than I wanted.

Interesting commentary, but the repetitive phrasing and style start to get in the way of the narrative. Also, he does such a great job summarizing the concept in the first few chapters, and then it's so interesting hearing how he ended up in this job, that once he starts telling the nitty gritty story of his time in Java, it's a bit boring, because we've already covered it so well at a slightly higher level.

Maybe will return to this when reading it together with a young person.

The Bastion of the book is so much less likable than the Bastion of the movie of my childhood.

Gave up partway through the audiobook. The teenage characters seem accurately written to being teenagers, and irritate me to no end.