Aiva

Amazing sci-fi in it's true meaning (at least how I understand it) - it's not only about space travel, about postapocalyptic survival, about strange new beasts and societies... it's about possibilities, about meaning behind power, about creating and destroying civilizations, about what we could learn from strange ideas captured in this fascinating genre of science fiction.

I thought the book will be something more than this. I got good recommendations for it after all - philosophical, wanting to read it again when finished... But no. It's a fast paced cheap sci-fi. Started really good but most of the book was action ending chapter with cliffhanger and the end was very weak. Book is ok, easy to read. Just don't expect much.

Oh, it takes a special book to not finish it. This was very special book. All the philosophical blabbering about how utilitarianism is the answer but never even mentioning how the heck can we make people follow one simple moral system. Maybe nice for those who like theory without any practical appliance. Even the science parts were far in between.

Too much politics for my liking. I mean - who is who and who is plotting something against whom... Not my cup of tea. I still liked it but basically skipped over the parts where there was no Ciri/Geralt/Yennefer.

Even though I rated “only” 4 stars, this is one of the must read books. The book itself isn't that great as the topic is important. After reading this you won't be able to look at another scandal across all the WWW the same. Ins and outs of how scandals are crated, why and how there is basically no protection against it. Book tries to be optimistic on a note of “knowledge might help” but this book has been published in 2012, that was before fake news epidemic. I think humanity is doomed because we love scandals way too much.

Title is misleading. There was nothing about what to do if you are socially awkward. Shoplifting?

It's very hard to comment on actual advice, as authors political climate and experience is quite different than mine. Also searching up the author yielded some disappointments. Oh well.

But this book is a nice read for broadening your outlook. Just don't have this as only information.

Why did I pick up this book? Idk! I was not thinking clearly and didn't google properly. War is huge trigger, I don't enjoy politics in my books, so only school time period was the part I liked. Then I soon understood that probably this is not for me.