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Cloudy, rainy and bitter sunday, nothing better to do than read Bukowski.

The dialogues were disjointed and felt very artificial, though that could've been just the translation. The science and story though is just so good! Especially the way it builds over different time spans is just so great. Definitely a bit on the hard sci-fi side but even for non sci-fi fans it would be a thoroughly enjoyable read. The science detailed out is just outstanding that more than makes up for the awkward dialogues or under developed characters. Great read!

Best self help book you'll ever find

Didn't find it as impressive as some of her other works but all in all it was an engaging read. The mix of Taoist philosophy with modern urge to control everything is well portrayed.

The second half of the book seems a little off. The criteria and laws setup in the first half are slowly broken down in the second as if all that didn't matter with the emergence of more and more bizarre events, or perhaps that was the intention! As with the character himself, with lessening grip on one reality, coming to understand the reality.

90% of this book is just rants. Superfluous, nonsensical and illogical...rants. The rest of the 10% is the author trying to impress you by name dropping, his ‘clever' insights and how he is such a bundle of humility even though he is so much better than anyone else in the profession.
Yes, we need to think about chance and randomness in our lives and how our impression of reality is sometimes just plain wrong owing to that impression. But this is not the book to start with, seriously, at times you'll feel that apart from everything else it's just badly written.