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is 50% done
This is the most boring planetary-wide catastrophe I've ever read. Sure, there are a lot of little interesting facts (hidden in a monstrous expo dumps), but it severely lacks an emotional, human side.
I'll finish it just for the sake of it, but it's really hard after reading Wilson's Spin, and Liu's Three-body Trilogy, Seveneves feels more like a script to an endless, monotonous YouTube science video.
— Jul 17, 2023 04:25AM
I'll finish it just for the sake of it, but it's really hard after reading Wilson's Spin, and Liu's Three-body Trilogy, Seveneves feels more like a script to an endless, monotonous YouTube science video.
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Jul 17, 2023 07:45PM
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Yev wrote: "100% true"I've kept your review in mind, but the book is even more frustrating. I think I would still give Snow Crash a chance, at least it is shorter.
I added a comment to my Seveneves review to address your statement. Snow Crash is a different kind of book. I appreciate you keeping what I wrote in mind, but I have misses more often than I like. It's nice when it works out though. One example for you is how I didn't write anything about the Three-Body Problem properly and was probably overly harsh on it. I eventually want to go back through some of my reviews, though I may not ever, and fix them up. That one's at the top of the list.
S wrote: "Yeah. This book is awful."Well, I will not say it is awful, yet.
Character-wise and plot-wise it's nonsensical (why would we need some law enforcement in orbit, right?), as if Stephenson strictly defines all politics-related as 'bad', and all science-related as 'good'. But there's enough little trivia and some slightly good moments (space cannibals, hell yeah) to make it 2/5 at least.
Vadim wrote: "S wrote: "Yeah. This book is awful."Well, I will not say it is awful, yet."
I do hope you enjoy it, though I found that the book got worse and not better.
