What did you read this year?
Jim’s
average rating for
2024
3.2
3.2
Carcaterra is not my favorite author, although this is a fairly decent story and I liked it enough that I probably will read the sequel. I did enjoy his SLEEPERS, but some of the others not so much. I think most readers will enjoy this one. I'm a bit harder to please.
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This book received a ton of attention and acclaim, but I felt like I was sneakily induced into a trap set by someone like Tyson who used fiction to lecture me on astrophysics, physics, ecological destruction, inhumanity, and other heavy topics presented in a somewhat disjointed but interesting science fiction tale. My brain doesn't hurt like it did when I read Hawking, but it kind of shut down for some parts. The game playing portions did tend to
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