Josh’s Reviews > The Ministry for the Future > Status Update

Book is good. But definitely minus one whole star. I signed up to this book wanting a fiction story. It is a book of big ideas plaved together and loosely connected by a very thin plot line threading it's way through the chapters.

Also it is all info dumps. The dialog is so lacking, leaning into the textbook feel.

I don't know if i'm enjoying this book. On one hand robinson is exhibiting some really masterful writing.And incorporating even some sense of poetry in how he puts it all together.

But there's hardly a through line in this book that lasts for more than a few chapters.So it feels like vignettes, and all of the vignettes are real world tragedies that are happening around us.So I thought I was getting into a fiction bo

I am detecting a high amount of poetry in his writing.Not just in the verses, but also as he constructs chapters and how they mirror each other.

Dad combined with the fact that it's half textbook, makes this a really unique book in a genre that I don't think i've ever read.

Put in robinson's words.I'm like a obese person.Avoiding the scaleI don't like reading about ending climate change.

Half dry textbook and half interesting story.

If it weren't for the story aspect, I would have abandoned this book.Because it's too heavy