john holst

I can't tell if I liked this book because I saw the first season of the show first and could visualize it better or if it was actually good. I do think the book went on one plot beat too much. Like he just needs to break 1k pages or something. Something could have been cut down.

I think this series started off very strong and ended better than it could have.

The conclusion to this series was unexpected and I think I liked that. There were parts that genuinely caught me off guard.

I had fun. Not as much fun as Ready Player One. It has a few too many deus ex machinas. The references seemed maybe too forced in some situations.

Overall it was a fun read. I would read a sequel.

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.

For some reason I appreciate the matter of fact interview style of the book. It reminds me of world war z. I immediately borrowed the second book in the series!

The first couple of chapters were slow to get into. It's one of those starts that begins in the middle of something exciting but you have no context and everything is confusing. But boy does it get going. What are exciting concept that you could use words like lock picks in the brain. I read Jennifer Government before but I think that was the only other book by Max Barry. Really knocked it out of the park with this one.

It was a semi satisfying ending.

So far it holds up in comparison to hunger games. Not as thrilling but much more grounded and believable. I will be finishing out the trilogy.

Weirdly enough it was a smidge too foreign. It was hard to picture where they were and the accents were harder to hear. There was an exceptional amount of detail. Detail about everything about dreams and thinking. It was maybe 300 pages longer than it could have been.

A more grounded slightly more believable Hunger Games. Can't wait to see where the story goes from here.

This reminded me a lot of Life As We Know It. Also about a world changing /ending told from a young girls perspective. It's very well written and it kind of pulls you along.

This book has a lot of syntax and lingo that takes a while before you get submerged. Once you're in, it's a very engaging read. It's a very interesting take on a sci-fi future. Vr/ar was especially engaging. Highly recommend!

The concept was excellent. The ending felt rushed or very condensed and confusing. I got things mixed up and it was a tad harder to follow. The universe implied and the continuing story implied is something I'd be interested in if ever continued.

This book is thicc. It was a daunting pick up at the library but the cover and synopsis beckoned. I'm so glad I did and took the time to read it. It was extremely excellent. There were chapters and interludes that I was like okay why are we hearing I want to hear about the main characters but the pay off was always worth it. I'm both eager and frightened to look at what else Chuck has written because they might be tomes as large as this one off story.

The first chapter I knew this was going to be 5 stars. This book caught me from the jump. It is extremely well written and takes you on a journey and you can't put it down. It's so near future that I can't recommend reading it quickly enough. If you catch this in 10 years and the world isn't like the book you'll probably be disappointed. Space hotels and astroid minning!

This series was incredibly readable. Meyer has a really good writing style that makes 600 page books fly by. I did not see the epilogue coming so good job on that one! I would read another series in this universe.

A drug pirate in an invisible submarine in a world with androids and internet dust? This book was very entertaining through and through. Very good job, Annalee Newitz.

There were large parts of this book that were good. But there was large sections of describing battles in details that were not gone into in any other section of the book. I was more interested in the broad themes of what was happening. It is a interesting thought experiment. It's hard to get into the mindset of a kid but I doubt this is how a world of children would go down.

I understood like 10% of the science terms and explanations of techno-babble but boy was it an enjoyable book. I had not read anything by Egan before but this has made me start looking into other books by him.

I would say 3.5 rounded up to 4.
I watch Rhett and Link every day and was excited to read their book. I think knowing it was their names but slightly off kind of distracted me. If that hadn't pulled me out so often I would have liked it a bit more.
They really create a fun mystery that goes places I didn't expect by the end. Good job guys. Would read a sequel.

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.

I teared up maybe 5 times during this book. I had to limit how many chapters I read in one sitting because of how emotional the story of the author and Mr. Rogers friendship was. I think its beneficial for anyone growing up or adult to read about Fred Rogers and how he did so much with just a little show. Showed people how to live with kindness and compassion. Everyone can use a friend like that in their lives regardless of the age difference or theistic beliefs. Highly recommend this book.

I have a love hate relationship with the culture novels. The universe is so interesting but the books are really hit or really miss for me. Consider Plebias was alright, it throws you into the deep end pretty quick and it takes a whole book to wrap your head around the universe. Player of Games was really really good. Use of Weapons was pretty bad. It is not immediately obvious but the “odd” chapters are from a certain point of time to the end and the “even” chapters are in the past but going backwards each chapter. So in essence the last “even” chapter should have been the first chapter of the book and the first “odd” chapter should have been the middle of the book. Not only that but in some chapters there are flash backs in the flash backs. It makes it extremely hard to keep track of what is going on, who is who, why is what and where is who.
It was all over the place. I will keep going with the series but instead of hitting the fourth book right away I'm going to give it a couple of months to wash the taste of this one out of my mouth.

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.