Josh Finnie

I would rank this a 3.5 if I could, but honestly... it was good but not great.

The first half of the book was great. Had a lot of good insights and made sense for someone in the startup world to read... The second half of the book was a train-wreck. It lost sight of the goal of the book and ended up only tangentially on point. This would have made an amazing two-part blog post where I forgot about Part 2 and didn't have to pay to read. Oh well.

Maybe I should go read the first few chapters again and feel better about this book.

Foundation was pretty good if not for ending so abruptly... It was interesting on how it is still timely in the “future” technologies for being written so long ago. I am very interested in sticking with this series!

I really enjoyed this book. It was really interesting on how Herbert played the reader as part of the future giving us glimpses of the future at the beginning of each chapter. I am interested to see where this series goes from here!

This was an interesting read. I really wish it wasn't so long as there was some parts that could definitely be shortened or cut out completely.

Interesting idea for a book, wish the overall writing was better and it had stronger plot points.

It was a good story though I felt as though it started off to slow. For a book that's over 700 pages, having a third of the book as introductory is killer. Picked up by the end of it, but mad at the ending...

Thought this was an excellent follow-up to Ender's Game. Even though it was completely different in context, I feel like it was a great step forward in the series.

It was just okay. I heard great reviews but it never really captivated me.

This series is so good! I have to knock off a star for some parts where I feel the decisions made by the character were made for plot sake and did not come off as genuine based on their character's persona. But I will continue this series until the end and be very sad when it's over.

One of the better books I have read in a long time. It kept my attention from beginning to end; solid 5 stars.

After really enjoying the Stormlight Archives, I want to read all of Sanderson's work. This was an amazing next choice!

a wonderful book that raised a lot of conversation points between my partner and I throughout the entirety of the book. Highly recommend!

This was an enjoyable short read. I didn't know much about what I was getting into, I purchased this book ages ago, but ended up really wanting to hear the conclusion. I'd recommend this book if you are looking for a feel-good science fiction book.

the mistborn universe is amazing, this seems like it is continuing the awesomeness we expect after the first trilogy.

This was a very fun introduction to the universe John Scalzi built. I am glad I listened to this, however, there was just bits of immaturity throughout the book that I thought probably could have been left out. Glad to see this is a series...

I was actually really upset at this book. I am not sure if it was due to being stuck in traffic while listening to it or just the overall message of this book did not resonate with me. We can all agree that if you had the ability to focus on your work you'd get better results, sure. But after listening to this book with overall generalizations that fit the mold of either journalism or tenor track professorship, I could not see a path to adopt anything more than the basic understanding that one could benefit from some focused time.

And then the few examples in this book where the author found success were periods of time that were outlandish and abusive. Bill Gates sleeping on his keyboard because he was in “deep work”, the author himself thinking of mathematical equations while hanging out with his child. The whole premise of this book was that you could succeed with creating time for deep work, but then example after example were people pushing themselves beyond normal deep work to succeed.

Maybe I missed the point, but I was very upset with the examples of what I would classify as the 10x engineering mentality which I am not sure is something I am willing to promote.

This book...

this book's title probably should have been “I'm famous give me a book deal”

Another knockout by Sanderson. What a fun and creative idea for a story. Glad I read it.

Read this over vacation after buying it ages ago. Really wish I kept this on the bookshelf unread as it did not live up to any sort of expectation I had for it. Maybe there were things lost in translation, but I felt that even though this was a short book, it felt very long reading it.

What an interesting concept. Super interested to go onto the next of the series!

I really enjoyed this book. It's not every science fiction that gets really into the weeds of science and still makes it approachable. I would certainly give this book a 4.5 star rating if I could.

After absolutely loving [b:Dark Matter 27833670 Dark Matter Blake Crouch https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1472119680l/27833670.SY75.jpg 43161998], I had some really high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, it fell a bit flat. Even though the topic of this book rivals Dark Matter in terms of intrigue and interest, I feel that the plot to this story just a bit lackluster. I certainly will not stop reading Crouch's future books, but this is not such a home run as Dark Matter was.

My goodness, what a book! If anyone is into sci-fi novels, give this one a go!

I heavily wanted to rate it 3.5 stars, but don't have that option and I don't think it rose to the level of a 4 star book. This is a very pop sci-fi book that was a quick read. I enjoyed it, but felt like there was too many plot holes to make this a stellar book.