john holst
I don't consider 3 stars a bad review. The universe created was wholly interesting and I think I will continue to read books set here but this book was a bit slow and like getting closer to the speed of light it got longer and longer toward the end of the book. Some scenes it would rush through and then the last 3rd of the book took place with hours of exposition being painstakingly described from 4 different perspectives.
It's really weird reading this book more than a decade later and having so much of it still be relevant. I have never read anything by a politician but I saw it at the library and thought to give it a shot. It is reminiscent of most of the things I've heard Obama talk about. I think what got me thinking about him again was seeing him on the Netflix show with David Letterman. Seeing him and reading him in today's political climate made such a stark contrast.
I would highly recommend giving it a read.
I enjoyed this book. I've heard the Freakobomics episode where they talk to, I believe, Harold. I've listened to that episode multiple times and have since implimented many of the index card suggestions. reading this book was just getting detail in a picture I already had but it was interesting none the less.
The last third of the book really slows down. I wouldn't say it was on par with Station Eleven but it had some similar themes. The comparison to it on the book jacket is what made me pick it up.
This was an exceptionally good read. it was dense but never obtuse. The concepts we're easy to grasp and the vocabulary was never indecipherable. The author brought up some good ideas that keep you thinking well after you put it down
I read this and homo deus in the wrong order but that did not effect the enjoyment of them. Harari's books are well thought out and very satisfying to read.
My girlfriend and I are getting ready to get married so naturally, I looked up a list of books about marriage to read. This came up as one of them.
It was very insightful. There was a bit of religiousness sprinkled in but I think more so the book had a tone of general spiritualness which I was more open to.
This book definitely gave me a better understanding of how a mindset governed by forgiveness would be beneficial. It also laid out pretty concrete guidelines, practices, and methods to work towards forgiveness in relationships, with other people or with your self.
I would highly recommend this book if you are feeling guilt, shame or conversely if you have been harmed by others. Or if you are like me and just want a better toolset before you embark on a big step, relationship-wise in your life.
This book scared me at first when it first showed up in the mail. It was large and imposing. I read like 6 other books before I steeled the nerve to read this and I'm glad I did.
It was amazing.
I love how technical and hard science fiction, Neal Stephenson goes with this. I could go on and on about this book but I would rather leave you to discover it on your own.
My best attempt at not spoiling things but still giving you something to go on would be that the first 2/3s of this book are almost a ‘The Martian'-esque (Andy Weirs' novel) following a group of people and how they deal with this global issue. The last 1/3 of the book moves into a more scifi/fantasy area that really allows brings a sense of closure to the nail biting first half of the book.
If you have the time and patience to read this long but worth-it book; do it.
I listened to this book and maybe that was a misstep. The narrator was not good but also the dialog was very clunky. So it's hard to pull those apart. The idea and plot point is fun but it's executed in a weird way. I love Jurassic park but I feel like I've read better nanomachine fiction.
I enjoyed this book, the world it created was bleak and unforgiving and it didn't shy away from that. I thought it was going to be another zombie book but it definetly carved its own space in the genre.
There wasn't as much plot and too much heady weird stuff. I enjoyed the world but it didn't delve into it enough. It was about 80 pages too long.
The concept of this book was pretty unique. I enjoyed the design of the antagonists. I highly recommend this book!
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.
It was a fitting end to the series. Arcs of completion for everyone. I would have liked a bit more finality with a few other characters but overall somehow Corey pulled off a non disappointing ending.
I want to review each book in this series if only to recommend them to more people but its hard not to gush without spoilers. This book continues the trends of the first. It is well paced and efficiently written. I blew through this book so fast and started the third that I forgot to mark it completed in goodreads before I finished the last book.
I have not seen the show after season 1 so this is new material for me to imagine. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Finally getting all the disparate characters together in one ship. Really great scifi.
I'm not sure if these are getting less fun to read or if I'm expecting more fast passed and energetic stories. I find it hard to read through the detailed parts of the story. My mind has already constructed the scene and I just skim through the plot beats and get to the dialog. So far to me they have been getting steadily worse. I'll take a break and come back to the rest later.
I accidentally read the third book before the second. Murderbots recollection of Art made me go back. I definitely enjoyed this one a but more. In excited to see where Murderbot goes from here.
This was a very good book. The dicotomy between the two characters and their similarities was a real draw. The author really builds a back story in an interesting and emotional way. I normally read scifi and this could fit into that but I think it also fits into what my wife finds more interesting to read which is definitely not scifi. There was more character and emotion here than I would normally pick out but I'm glad I picked this one up.
I can't really separate my 100 hours in the game and watching the show from this reading. I really enjoyed this book. Wether it was from being able to picture the people and places and understanding the back story further than the book explains is hard to tell.
I listened to this one, but read the previous 2. It's probably the best way to enjoy this series. There is a lot of superfluous languages and descriptions and tangents that the narrator goes on that during a normal book read I would skim to get the jist because it can be very verbose. But the audio narration helps you get the full flavor of the story the way it was intended without having to read and reread the same flowery language over and over.
It's too bad this is the last parable book. It's such a unique concept and a really interesting philosophy.
The first book took a while to sell me. It's hard to look past the obscure philisophy and history lessons. It's difficult to keep straight all the gender fluidity, which makes it hard to imagine in your head what people look like and what the scene looks like. All that said, once you get into it the story takes off and it is a lot of fun to try and figure out whats going on.
I think it was good. I liked the end. Its very difficult to talk about it without spoiling it.