drews

I have heard so much good about this book and most of the praise is earned imho.

For me this book really reads as a allegory of our climb from the bottom to top and how most people just become complacent and deluded into our own world views and find ourselves stuck and really only a few have the drive and motivation to ascend to "better" lives

However not all is as it seems and this book also has a cynical world view of what it takes to survive and our main character Senlin must seek to overcome the challenges he meets to bring himself to a higher level and ultimately achieve his goal.

Senlin is a very optimistic character who is quick to trust and make friends, but not quick to learn from his mistakes and often has rose colored glasses, this both annoyed me and gave me hope that his optimism would win out in the end. But as he travels through the tower it seems that perhaps despite his best efforts the tower is still changing him, for better or worse remains to be seen.

This was a fun adventourist read with a unique concept and setting for the overall plot representing society on many levels. I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the 2nd and 3rd books in this series

I have never seen the movie or read the book. Given my expierences with books that are supposed to be classics have been very hit and miss so was not honestly expecting much of this one.

Set in WW1 on the western front from the view point of a german solider. Fresh out of training at only 18 fighting in the trenches and his expierences there.

I overall enjoyed this book, but am not giving a 5 star review mainly because I honestly was not that interested in the main character personally as this could have just as easily been any other character in the book. What was really good for me was understanding the expierence of a soldier on the front lines.

However that being said the vivid descriptions of the expiernce, thoughts, feelings of what its like to be a soldier on the front lines really drew me into the story and gives a viceral sense of the horror of what these soldiers were going through.

overall a good read, enjoyable and worth the read

Overall a fun read that I really enjoyed mostly.

That being said this book gives too much of mistborn era 4 world info for my tastes as that series has not been written yet

There is also imho too much of cosmere connections in very not subtle ways which would have been better to be much more subtle vs the "ya these guys are from scadrial and this guy from roshar" kind of thing

However i really did like sixth of the dusk novella flashbacks being part of this book, which was great both for those who have read and not read that novella.