Clemens

David Foster Wallace appeared on my radar when "Infinite Jest" was all over the internet as the best Sci-Fi novel you have to read, while reading it the parts where he wrote about the Tennis where absolute fascinating. A friend of mine told me I should try to read this.

Well many years have passed and I finally read it and it was so amazing, especially for me who was a huge Tennis fan back in the '90s this is all so amazing. The writing is great (be aware of many many foot notes) and it was all over too soon.

Would I recommend this, hell yeah, those short stories are amazing!

Well, it was nice. But by far not as good as the first book. It started interesting, had a nice progression, but then it somehow dropped off and never really recovered and suddenly it was all finished.

Would I recommend this? Sort of, if you have time and nothing else to read. Else the first part is good enough and also has its own finished story line. So there is that.

Very positively surprised by this book. I wouldn't call this a hard sci-fi story but more a mystery sci-fi book. It has a really good story, great character arcs and a very interesting universe where this whole thing plays in. And to top this off, the whole book ends with a nice closing, so there is no forced need to read the next book.

Highly recommended

I haven't been that wowed by some classical sci-fi book in a long time. This book was really good, just overall really good. I now understand how Dune has such a big fan group. The only Dune I knew before this was the David Lynch movie and it was fantastic abstract. And this book is just so amazing ... and now I want to see Dune again ...

I read the second book after the third book because while reading the third book I never realized it was the third book because it was so flat and boring and nothing happened.

Now after reading the second book it feels more like the third book in progress and happening and I would be even more pissed off if I would have read that in order.

Still this book is just flat and boring and horrible like the other two. The main character is this all good all can do everybody thinks he can solve the universe person that you just start to hate really well really soon.

It feels like some horrible teenage fantasy novel that should have never been published.

Don‘t read one of those books. Ever.

I read Book 3 before reading Book 2 and I never realized I read the last part because it was so boring. So horrible boring. Just one thing popped up and I was like “when did that happen” but the rest. Boring. Nothing happens. The ending is so … boring that I still thought I am in book 2 and then we get to the good end. But there is no good end. It is just so boring and horrible.

Just don’t bother, read something else.

It barely made it over the three star hurdle

The good: Interesting characters, interesting world and interesting world building

The bad: A story that drifts off into utter boring rambling instead of getting more interesting

The ugly: She? or She? or He? or She? or He? Useless gendering that made no sense

Recommended? Honestly not really, I will try the second book because overall it was not too bad, but I will not keep my hopes up