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This book pulls you in.

It’s difficult to get into it

I’m really enjoying this book. The storytelling is alive fresh intriguing…,

This is a book for everyone

This is the book that I thought was reading when I reviewed children of earth… yep. This is hours tired I am lol.

Turns out, the intro part IS really mind numbingly complicated and overflowing with too many details that I couldn’t make sense of until I started hitting the 200s. It’s not the Frank Herbert Dune first 100 pages kind of complicated. FH built universes full of light & dark, but showed it all to us

This is the slowest reading I’ve done in a long while. There are so many species, locations, names, layer upon layer upon layer of complexity that I’ve not been able to get into the book yet.

It is a huge universe he’s built, yes… but did it have to be so heavily populated with so much complexity this early on? I’m struggling to keep all the details in mind from one evening to the next…

I’m loving this book. It’s a soul healing kind of book that lets me see a bit of the light that’s in everyone around, through all the layers of division, uncertainty, conflict.

It’s a much slower read than I’ve anticipated for such a highly acclaimed book…

This book takes you on such a grand journey through space time… it’s like looking up at the stars at night and realizing how small we, as individuals, are, and yet, here we are…

A MUST READ! From every point of view!
It’s not a fast read for me because I have to sit and process and sometimes even write my way into understanding.
It has impact on the personal level, the social system, the priorities we have as a society, inequality, climate, omg! It’s really that good!

“But ADD precedes the plot. It adjusts the lighting and sets the stage. If the lighting is too low or significant props are missing from the stage, the story cannot be fully comprehended. Before getting the story going, before developing the plot lines of one’s ongoing narrative of introspection, it is worthwhile to have a lighting specialist and a propman check the stage out.”

Surprisingly slow... I'm not able to connect to the characters

A blend of what seems life fantasy in a sci-fi universe. Just started and can't tell where is going yet, but the writing, like always, is just top!

For an audiobook, you need to have a good narator. This does not have a good narator!

It's truly difficult to get into the book with this voice going up and down on ever single word.

I wish I'd had gotten this book in ebook format instead.

Always loved Heinlein's style. This book doesn't disappoint.