Fox Book Club discussion

Our August Readalong!! Who's picking this book up with me?

This seems interesting. I read by him and liked it a lot. I also tried but it remains DNFed to date. :-)

Leticia wrote: "This seems interesting. I read by him and liked it a lot. I also tried but it remains DNFed to ..."

I absolutely loved Seveneves, I really think you guys are in for a great ride. However, if you're really allergic to scientific talk and very raw view on human nature, that might not be for you.
I've also tried to get into Quicksilver twice and failed. Taking into account I have a masters degree in history, that might not be a good sign :/

I picked this one up when it came out, but wasn't able to get to it. This is the perfect excuse to check it out from the library again.

I just started it today before seeing this. I am hooked after downloading it on my Libby app. I am picking it up at a good time as I just finished Delta-V by Suarez. My head is full of science, physics, and space.

I actually read this book in february...
So have fun :)

I found this book quite difficult to get into - having to re-start a couple of times. I’m reading it alongside the audiobook which I find really helps me because this is a very complicated book from the typical books I read haha. 243 pages in so far and from the parts I do understand it is very interesting and an enjoyable read :)

I'll be reading an excerpt I got for free and then I'll decide about going on.

Just picked up my copy. We will see how this goes. It was on my tbr before the challenge so it was a matter of time before I got to it. This will push me to try it. I have many of his other books on my tbr as well.

I read pieces of Some Remarks by him (it's a collection of essays) and I was good up until he got deep into communication lines connecting across continents. Or something like that, it was a few years ago. It was really dry and incredibly boring to me.

Just started Seveneves today and felt like the first few pages really hooked me. Then I got bored. I think I may have issues getting into his writing style.

Krystal wrote: "I read pieces of Some Remarks by him (it's a collection of essays) and I was good up until he got deep into communication lines connecting across continents. Or something like that, it was a few ye..."

I think I agree with you - I find that some sections are SO engaging that I can't put it down. But others are quite complex and I find myself thinking about putting down the book and doing something else (which is never a good sign haha)

I read now the whole free sample.

Not yet sure if I want to read the whole tome.

Leticia wrote: "I read now the whole free sample. The story is interesting but a couple of things strike me as unrealistic and/or filler and the tone of the book is somehow depressing too, it strikes me *spoiler a..."

Possible spoiler...the unrest and fighting is coming. The characters that we follow are more distant witnesses as everything starts falling apart but it is there. To oversimplify, most fighting is believers of the scientific timeline to come and nonbelievers who think it is a conspiracy...some minor pressure from some who think their citizens are being excluded.

got to part 3 and called it a day (DNF).

Read this one a couple years back. It's got a lot of big ideas, but it also has major problems. Number one being that Stephenson dumbs down the science stuff to, like, grade-level. It seems like he doesn't give his audience much credit.

I am also struggling with this one. I have some personal things that are clouding my reading experience, but still I am in and out of interest with it. I just started part two and parts are just really hard to push through. I am going to finish it though but this will be the first one of the annual challenge I don't finish in the month we started it.

I loved the book! It's really two books in one, but I thought they complemented one another in a way that wouldn't have happened if it was published as a two-book series. I think you have to enjoy scientific details, such as orbital mechanics, to fully enjoy this book.

Brian wrote: "I loved the book! It's really two books in one, but I thought they complemented one another in a way that wouldn't have happened if it was published as a two-book series. I think you have to enjoy ..."

I'm of the same mind as you. I loved it (while I has big, big troubles getting into every other Stephenson book I've tried) and pretty much goblet it up in three or four days.
The scientific details were really well described and explained and I really likes that the book didn't shy from human nature and the most repulsive parts of what happens in space and when civilization is crumbling.

It's at the same time one of the darkest and most hope-filled books I've read :)