Nicole

A dissapointment after North Woods.

This book is not for me. Bleak, and sad-making stories, one after another. Perhaps another time in my life I'll be ready for it .....

Fantastic read at many levels, if you love Leckie's work you will love this.

I learned so much from this book. It was hard to absorb it all. But you can't unsee what is laid out, after reading it. A valuable read.

A couple of exceptional stories. I thought a lot while reading these ....

Totally original and entrhalling. Fantastic world building. A great read.

Classic Scalzi. Funny and fastpaced, a great, quick escapist read.

Poetic, vivid, atmospheric, slow-moving at times, and at times confusing .... A very moving story of the violence humans seem unable to stop committing upon each other, and how it harms those who follow. In this case, a massacre in Korea, after WWII, about which I've never known a thing.

The prose is a little too purple at times for me . . . but the exposition of NY at that time was very vivd and interesting.

Riveting, funny, a book of ideas and a propulsive plot. Great read.

A fun and funny quick reading novel.

Short and utterly absorbing. Something I love in novels is when they give me access to a worldview and experience that is entirely new to me. This novel delivered in spades, with lots to think about after.

A good read for when you laid up with a broken ankle. Cliched characters and story arc, but important points about gender, power, insider status etc. are made.

A fun and engaging read, on books, relationships, technology, and a bit of magic. Thoroughly enjoyable.

This book is a Must Read. It is available as a text or in their graphic version which I recommend.

My first book by MFK Fisher. Interesting to read, as a window on a person of privilige in her time. Her prose and language choices often made me think of Hemingway . . .

Interesting speculative fiction with good characters, but I found myself glossing over the (for me) mind numbing detail.

Another amazing book by Rushdie. Nothing hit me like the first I read by him. But none have ever disappointed. Tremendous writer and observer.

A good reminder of why we need the EPA and DOJ.

Felt tedious. Wonderful ending .... But not enough to make it worth it.

While the writing was as brilliant as ever, I found myself less captured and transported by the book than Paris to the moon. In that sense a little disappointed. The essay on his friend Kirk Varnedoe and the Mighty Metrozoids was beautiful and true.

Read one, and weep with laughter. And then read them all. And then in five or ten years do it again.

Rather dull ....

I so enjoyed the Martian ... but this felt like the same book, with a different hero and a different set of technical challenges to be overcome by said genius and all knowing hero. I think if I'd read Artemis first, I would have like it and not the Martian ....

Forced myself to finish out of respect for the author and wanting to see it somehow come together. Despite some truly amazing images, and demonstrations of language genius (how else to describe what he does?) it just never worked for me. Felt kind of self indulgent by the author.....