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The author did a great job of managing the amounts of personality, tech detail, and advancing the story. The setting is in Portland so the street and building name-dropping was fun.

Came across this book on the bookshelf of a room I was staying in. Its an entertainig page turner and Anne does a great job expressing a love for the wilderness and of her own sense of adventure. Its got great detail on the house and the trees and animals in the area. If a group of anything is being described, at least five members will be enumerated. Loniness comes up a lot in the book, which I felt a connection with on a solo trip myself. I just learned there are books that follow and I'll be keeping at eye out for more.

dont look at your heroes too closely. Jaws is my favorite film and while I can say I'm glad I read the book, the story of the movie was better. They did the right thing by cutting out the poorly depicted marital problems of the Brodys. It was nice to read the forward where Benchley said he could not write Jaws today because it promotes a misunderstanding of shark behavior.

well researched and fantastically written. i learned things, depressing things, about US involvement in the vietnam war. i stopped about half way because just that much was plenty to ponder.

Like other Stephenson books, its two books bound together and the first book is usually better. Seveneves is an epic tale and worth the read.

This book kept me company in Ecuador. I saw the movie on the plane ride over and loved it. I loved reading the book just as much. I found a paperback version on a shelf of an American-owned and run cafe called Surf Shak. The movie is very close to the book and the writing is great fun to read.

(note: I'm a big fan of FD since The Guild)

This book was really enjoyable to read. It felt genuine and well written. It moved along at a good pace and had some great backstory on what shapped FD's personality and how The Guild came to be. A++

the final volume had the same formula as the last two and should have been another amazing novel, but somehow came out flat. the story has tremendous scope, weaving many threads together. the tech seemed like a hoge-poge of new (neural micromachines) and old (mesh wifi networking). more time was spent on character development, but im not sure the story deserved 600 pages. if you're interested in the series, by all means read the first book.

author seems to have a chip on his shoulder

History, anecdotes, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Having Musk be on the world stage and the scope of his enterprises is a huge inspiration to do big things.

This is not a book, this is a hundred years of physics and science distilled into words. This book moved my brain from 1850s thinking to a 1950s understanding of the universe and a lot happened in that period. This simplified description of modern physics has incredible scope including the Higgs Ocean and the arrow of time. It hold the readers interest with (sometimes corny) metaphors. All the good stuff is in the first half. I stopped 2/3s in when string theory became too abstract.

Very well written. It was an interesting perspective of America in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

an incredible, compassionate, honest story of childhood, strength, and love.

William Gibson expertly crafts a highly entertaining and believable dose of futurism.