The Sparrow

I gave this book a fair shot (stopped at 127) and up until I decided to stop, I thought the narrative was decent and the character portrayals if not ground-breaking interesting enough to make me want to keep reading. If this book was just about the characters, I would have continued without a doubt. What finally made me decide on not continuing was the sci-fi aspect. It wasn't supremely technical, I could follow along well enough though the physics flew over my head. The approach was just so dry that the book really dragged whenever a scientific explanation was called upon to get a better grasp on how this space voyage was going to happen. I can surmise that more of that type of writing gets more prevalent as the impending voyage looms closer so I finally had to put the book down because it was just so boring. While I did enjoy reading about the characters (as characters are usually the primary draw for me), I didn't care about them enough to suffer through more “science” when it's more the writing's fault than the actual science itself.