john holst
An excellent book. The show is different enough that no matter which you start with the other will be just as enjoyable.
Every entry in this series brings something different but similarly beautiful and unexpected. Becky really knows how to bring a universe to life.
There was a point where I thought this one was the least favorite of the three I read so far but the way a part towards the end was written actually brought me to tears. Each of the series installments really is it's own thing. You can't really compare them.
I trust Becky chambers. I left the great first book hoping to continue with those characters and was initially a bit disappointed that it doesn't stick with them but I think I enjoyed this second book even more. It really jelled together better and had a cohesive theme. Really really good. Already checked out book 3.
The concept was excellent. The ending felt rushed or very condensed and confusing. I got things mixed up and it was a tad harder to follow. The universe implied and the continuing story implied is something I'd be interested in if ever continued.
I greatly enjoyed this book. The photographs enhance the writing in a unique way. Very excited for the film version.
I listen to the podcast every week but haven't read one of their books yet. This was the first one and maybe I should have read the first two first.
The first couple of chapters were slow to get into. It's one of those starts that begins in the middle of something exciting but you have no context and everything is confusing. But boy does it get going. What are exciting concept that you could use words like lock picks in the brain. I read Jennifer Government before but I think that was the only other book by Max Barry. Really knocked it out of the park with this one.
Weirdly enough it was a smidge too foreign. It was hard to picture where they were and the accents were harder to hear. There was an exceptional amount of detail. Detail about everything about dreams and thinking. It was maybe 300 pages longer than it could have been.
There were large parts of this book that were good. But there was large sections of describing battles in details that were not gone into in any other section of the book. I was more interested in the broad themes of what was happening. It is a interesting thought experiment. It's hard to get into the mindset of a kid but I doubt this is how a world of children would go down.
Lots of chapter jumping. So much. 3-4 good perspectives the rest you just try and get through to get to the good characters.
I enjoyed the universe Blum created. There were questions I had about it's inner workings about how deep the coincidences go. About 4/5s the way through I guessed the end but it didn't diminish it. Still satisfying. I did think this was going to be a bit more sci-fi-y than it ended up being.
A drug pirate in an invisible submarine in a world with androids and internet dust? This book was very entertaining through and through. Very good job, Annalee Newitz.
It's neither offensive nor amazing but it is a quick ride of a read. I wouldn't mind reading sequels.
This one was not as fun a read as the first book. Maybe I enjoyed the sense of Discovery and learning about Odd. This one seemed to be a weird middle chapter or a brief holding pattern while Odd dealt with the issues of the first book.
I have high hopes for the rest of the series!
There is something about John Scalzi's writing and characters. I've read so many of his books now and he writes science fiction in a way that just keeps you hooked. I am a big fan of The Interdependency series so far. This book continues on the store and mythology in a way that I could not put it down.
The idea of flow shoals and memory rooms and the habitats that this space-faring society lives in are really fun to think about, but what makes this story stand out are the characters and the interactions. I don't think I saw the end of this book coming though I knew something was going to happen.
I like where this series is going and can't wait for Scalzi to finish it up or hopefully he will keep it going for a long while like with Old Man's War.
This book was okay. I thought, before getting it, that it was the first in a series and it is, but first in a series of an even larger series of books by Neal Asher. What that means is that there is a lot of super interesting characters and concepts in this book that I would have liked expanded but were expanded in the first series in this universe.
Towards the end the concepts and names and call backs were coming so fast and furious it was hard to know what was really going on or why it was impactful.
I full accept this was my fault for getting this book first but I definitely thought this was the first book ever in this universe.
I like where the story ends and what it means for the future. I'm not sure if I'll try season 9. It's hard to find these for cheap and they read very quickly.
I actually enjoyed the history of the post office and in a very real sense how it created America. It got a bit depressing getting to the modern times realizing how much cooler the post office could have been with savings banking and electronic mail delivery and security.
It was a good book and I highly recommend it.
This was a very interesting book on a historical figure in atheism I did not know about before this. The authors writing style with weirdly structured sentences was a bit weird, but I otherwise enjoyed the topic and learning about Robert Ingersoll.
I picked this up because it involved ai. I was entertained but I do not think it was a good book persay. I feel like the author used the same solution to a few minor things multiple times and repeated dialogue too often. It was weird. It also seemingly abandoned the ai's visual perspective halfway through and skipped a lot of her evolution to finding the good in humans.
I will always come back to Old Man's War. John Scalzi has proven that he can build an interesting universe and keep me hooked consistently from book to book.
This book in particular satisfied an arc over the couple books. I can't wait to see what other stories he can write in this universe.
I've read Wong's ‘John Dies' books and I love his writing style. It's quick witty and funny. This one was a smidge more witty than I would have prefer though. Like the characters had a writing team behind them. Which is a weird thing to say for a book. Still I found it quite entertaining and it reads quickly.
I read this immediately after reading the first biography Mr Nimoy wrote “I Am Not Spock”. While they contain a lot of similar memories and situations, “I Am Spock” is written with the wisdom of age and in a much more recognizable Nimoy/Spock tone. Its a splendor to read and I for one will always see both Spock and Leonard whenever I see either face. The two are very much one in the same.
If you're as into Star Trek and Spock as I am, do yourself a favor and read both. If you have time for only one read this one. It references the older one and builds on it in a much more complete way.
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I loved these when I discovered them on imgur and this book was even better. You'll finish it in 30 mins.