Fascinating history of the people and science behind the detection of gravitational waves. Surprisingly exciting stuff.
I don't know who this book is for, but it's not me. It felt like the same 4 sentences about how the past and future don't matter and avoiding the “divided mind” repeated with a splash of eastern religions thrown in.
In sum: Live in the moment.
I enjoyed it. Cal has never had a social media account. Counter-intuitively, this gives him a clear perspective of the cost/benefit balance offered by social networks. He offers a number of actionable ways to reduce and clarify how we interact with devices and other people.
The first 300 pages were fantastic. Then the story delved further into bitworld and became less interesting to me. Many reviews said that the last part of the book was almost entirely a fantasy novel within bitworld, so I gave up at around page 500 and will not be finishing the book.
This is disappointing, because the first 3rd was so very good.
Neil Gaiman's love of reading and writing is fascinating and infectious. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go to the library.
Did not finish. Not because I'd expected a Discworld novel, but because I didn't like this one enough to continue.
This would be a fantastic book for someone just starting out with a Bullet Journal. I've been neck deep in my “BuJo” for several years so there wasn't that much here for me. Still, I recommend it.
Maybe I'll finish Pest Control some day, but after 50 pages I'm not feeling it. Too many insects and not enough laughs.
What a wonderful, surreal, weird book. I loved every minute of it, but I couldn't begin to tell you what it's about.
Merged review:
What a wonderful, surreal, weird book. I loved every minute of it, but I couldn't begin to tell you what it's about.
I hope we can have many more Murderbot books. I like them better than Jack Reacher books.
I read this based on glowing recommendations from people I trust. Turns out it's another repetitive, drawn out self-help book I didn't need.
While I believe that any person is allowed to write a book about any subject, the controversy around this one got in the way of whatever enjoyment I might have gotten out of it, so I had to stop. I'm disappointed in everyone, now.