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I find myself skimming through the lengthy descriptions of the world around them, random banter, and other seemingly unimportant filler content about the new cultures they’ve discovered or the world in general. Normally for a book similar to this one in theme, I’d love to read these details, but I think I’m impatient to finish

There could be MUCH less "whitty batter" between the crew members and much less of Sandoz complaining about being in pain and suffering in general. It's almost nauseating how much of the first half of the book is meaningless whitty, banter likely meant to be character building (which could have been done in far fewer words) and sandoz complaining or being unlikeable, INSTEAD OF GETTING TO THE POINT (aliens)

Love it, thankfully I’ve gotten through a little bit of a slow section and things are exciting again now

This is a very good book. Great on audio , but it would be great and print too. It’s giving me very much Narnia X Howl’s moving castle vibe

Just realized that the actor who plays Rob in the Normal People is the narrator of this audiobook and it makes it lovely. He sounds quite a lot like Paul Mescal to my untrained ears. The writing is lovely, I love the way the voice of the writing switched between the brothers, and WOW it is Horny with a capital H.

Pumping this book into my veins at this point because I can’t stop

Beautiful descriptions of everyday life sprinkled between MAX 800000 LEVEL ADRENALINE situations every other chapter. Mami and Luca are GOING THROUGH IT like can they catch a break?

Ok this book has felt quite long

Oh yes yes

I loooove some of the writing. I’m a sucker for creative similes/metaphors in writing, and this author is pushing all my right buttons. I think I might be slightly more into the book as a whole if I weren’t currently trying to tone down themes of technology/electronics in my life, but it’s no serious obstacle to how much I’m enjoying it. I have high hopes because I di love a love story between two freaks

While the beginning theory-based sections were slightly repetitive and banal for my taste, these practical middle sections are sort of inspiring and very to the point. Also, I’m still not 100% on board with what ethos should make this guy someone worth listening to about the topic, but I suppose he’s doing a good job and someone has to do it

Some of what I’ve read seems somewhat painfully obvious, and it feels a little corny the way he is over explaining how a like button sends a hit of dopamine because it represents someone thinking about you and this is a feature not a bug, etc. I guess if you hadn’t grown up in the era of social media this might be less obvious, but I’m starting to skim bc im getting a little bored at parts.

This book kind of reminds me of the book “Rebecca” in its quiet nature, the way it revolves around the House & a gone too soon legend of a person who everyone misses, etc. I thought that book was like 3.9/5 and I think I’ll likely feel similar about this, but I do find the dialogue interesting and I LOVE May and the boy (I can’t remember his name oops)