john holst

I loved this book. I could waffle on and on about what I think this book is trying to convey about humanity and what drives us and what not. I loved the narrator and the development the narrator makes over the course of the book. You can just see it in the writing. It's always fascinating to me when a writer attempts to have a character apply logic and reason to human emotions and behaviors. I feel like a lot of insight can be discovered when you attempt to analyze humanity in that way.

I was skeptical of another Kim Stanely Robinson book. I read Red Mars but it had a hard time hooking me and it ended up taking me years to read. It was enjoyable in the end and I plan on finishing that series but I didn't think I'd love a book by this author as much as I ended up loving this book.

It can get very overly descriptive in certain points. Almost fetishizing the wind and water but the pay off is worth it.

Highly recommend.

This entry into the series keeps the same file format as the first but definitely throws some curve balls. I'm enjoying this almost no frills style of story telling.

I could hear the book in Ken's voice thanks to his podcast but this book didn't really keep my interest. A lot of these are things people say but kind of know they are bunk or not. Not totally uninteresting but you have to be in the mood to read it.

It takes about half the book to get up and running but it starts off with a bang. 

I was explaining this book to a friend before I was done and I think he got hung up on how nudging could be used for bad or evil and the book didn't really address this til the end for a short chapter. I agree alot of nudges could be helpful but the transparency and respect required to stop evil nudges is also troublesome. 

Way too much jargon and 33% and still not to the main point of the book. 

It was an excellent insight into Leonard Nimoy's life and mindset post original series and pre Stsr Trek movies. Seems like the first half he uses talking about what it means to be both Spock and Leonard. The rest is more autobiographical.

I'll be honest. Consider Plebias was kind of a slog in the back half to get through. But my God the universe Banks created was just too interesting to not keep going. As for this book the player of games this was much much smoother going down. It was a really detailed look at the actual culture and how it deals with other civilizations. I really enjoyed this book. So much I got the third in the series right away. I can only hope it's more player of games ish and less consider Plebias ish.

This book continues the trend of fleshing out the universe of Old Man's War and the ending opens up opportunities that make me excited for the rest of the books in the series but I kind of found this one to be slower and not as fun as the other two books. I'll probably continue the rest of the series in the future though.

I listened to this on audio book, I thought the female voice actor was great but the male voice actor was a bit weird. Also, I felt it would have made more sense for each character to voice their own character even if it was not the chapter from their perspective. As it stands, when it is Adrians chapter he voices Nova's lines in a girly voice. It seems weird when they could have had Nova's voice actor do her own lines in Adrian's chapters.

Either way, I was surprised I had liked this book towards the end. I want to know more about the backstories of the groups. I feel like there is set up for a twist where the bad guys are the good guys and the good guys are the bad guys. “From my point of view the Jedi are evil!”

The parts of the book that take place on earth can be a slog. Always wanting to get back to the interesting Proxima planet. It was alright!

This book delivers exactly what you'd expect. An analytical approach to how to give, ways to give, how to think about the effect of what you give whether it be time or money and how to maximize that. I think it was helpful to shift my view when giving. I normally think about the sectors I am passionate about and used charity navigator to find highly rated non rip off charities in that sector and try to give what I can. While I may not change which sectors I want to give to I may look into giving to the more effective ones in those individual sectors.

This book really helps.

Not as fun as the first book but it had its moments. I hope the series continues. 

It never focused on the character that I wanted to know more about. I'm a fan of Person of Interest the CBS show so I went in to this book with slightly different expectations. Though, I didn't find it unenjoyable to read. It was just all right. Sub average.

This read took me awhile (lots of breaks to listen to that weeks SGU) but it was well worth it. Having this book on my shelf is reassuring. Knowing I have somewhere to go to check my biases and failings, to know there are others who strive for logic and truth.
I enjoyed the read and the personal stories towards the end. 10/10 get this for people in your life.

This was a very informative and helpful book. I think actually it would be helpful to own not just to rent from the library so you could go over the helpful questionnaires and exercises again over the years.

My gf read this book before me and liked it and her tastes are much different than mine so I was excited that this book was so enjoyable. Not that I didn't doubt another Green would be a good author. Man this book was great. I read it in a few days and was excited to see where the story was going and was probably the most satisfied I'd been with a book ending that did not tie up every question at the end.

I would read a sequel to this but I do not think it needs one. Great job Hank.

It was pretty good. A well written conclusion to the trilogy. I wasnt terribly disappointed in the loose ends it tied up or the conclusion to the stories.

This was an extremely well done book. I admit KSR usually writes books that are a bit to slow, methodical, dense or obtuse for me. It took me a year to slog through Red Mars. So I am weary of most of his books but this one sounded too interesting to pass up and I was not disappointed.

This was another great start to a John Scalizi universe. I love Old Man's War and the world built around those characters and I can sense that The Interdependency is going to be another hit. If you loved any of John Scalizi's books this one is going to be right up your alley.

The book was pretty good! It moves very fast and the references and jokes are thrown at you equally quickly.
I would say it's closer to 3.5/5 stars. They spent a lot of time in the book being amazed at what nanomachines were doing can do would do. It made me very curious to know what society at large would be like after the changes were finalized.

This was an excellent series that I can't imagine never going back to. Hopefully the author goes back to this universe.

There was a great book in here. That great book was probably edited down from 1040 pages to 400.

This book felt as though there were characters and settings added to pad it out. Things came together in an incredibly unlikely way. The second to second minute to minute details of 5 different characters in multiple locations seemed like an unnecessary chore. I don't know if I'll give another one of his books a try at this point.

I read and absolutely loved Seveneves (would have given it 6/5 if I could) by him and that was equally long and overly verbose and detailed. It could be that I enjoyed the setting and plot of that story better.

I think the most interesting thing about this book was the time period in which it was written. How much emphasis was placed on food shortages and homosexuality. The scifi backdrop of time dilation was very fascinating.

I appreciated the animation style change for one of the arcs. It was a cool look into how maybe it would have looked had it been an animated cartoon.