Ali

A bit happy ending-ish, not as strong as Asimov only works.

This is a self-help book, I don't know why I expected otherwise, it has the same tone and mind-numbing tails to hammer the anecdotes home! I gave it 4 chapters before giving up.

I didn't expect it to be as good!
Great wrap up on various case of crowds implicitly or explicitly deciding and effective factors on their optimal performance.

Nice to read, good ideas how to run a small to medium calm business, as the authors point out pure anecdotes.

This book was basically my introduction to SciFi novels. I am, as I always been, a fan of science fiction, Hard SF rather that Space Opera.
And this is -in my opinion- as Hard as it gets in SciFi. Nothing gets in the way of detailed exploration of an unknown alien world like Rama.
Characters are well drawn, by the end of the book you feel like a member of the main exploration team and you know major characters by heart.

The fact that there is no major plot twist is amazing, this means you can't get spoiled with this book, and consequently you can read it several times and still enjoy it!