Clemens

Absolute stunningly surprised how good this book was. Like seriously good, highly recommended Sci Fi book

Not as good as the first one, but I fully enjoyed reading it.

I read this in German.

This was an utter enjoyment from the first page to the last. It is even more enjoyfull to read something amazing in my own mother tongue.

Something was lacking in this book, it didn't have the usual bite I expect from his books, while not bad overall, it just didn't live up to the previous book, and not even close to the first book.

This took some time to read because I returned to some glorious work from home time.

Anyway, I fully enjoyed this book, it was not as good as I remember the first one, but my memory might be a bit hazy as it is quite some time since I read the first book.

Still a really good story, really well written. Would recommend

David Foster Wallace appeared on my radar when "Infinite Jest" was all over the internet as the best Sci-Fi novel you have to read, while reading it the parts where he wrote about the Tennis where absolute fascinating. A friend of mine told me I should try to read this.

Well many years have passed and I finally read it and it was so amazing, especially for me who was a huge Tennis fan back in the '90s this is all so amazing. The writing is great (be aware of many many foot notes) and it was all over too soon.

Would I recommend this, hell yeah, those short stories are amazing!

Well, it was nice. But by far not as good as the first book. It started interesting, had a nice progression, but then it somehow dropped off and never really recovered and suddenly it was all finished.

Would I recommend this? Sort of, if you have time and nothing else to read. Else the first part is good enough and also has its own finished story line. So there is that.

Very positively surprised by this book. I wouldn't call this a hard sci-fi story but more a mystery sci-fi book. It has a really good story, great character arcs and a very interesting universe where this whole thing plays in. And to top this off, the whole book ends with a nice closing, so there is no forced need to read the next book.

Highly recommended

I haven't been that wowed by some classical sci-fi book in a long time. This book was really good, just overall really good. I now understand how Dune has such a big fan group. The only Dune I knew before this was the David Lynch movie and it was fantastic abstract. And this book is just so amazing ... and now I want to see Dune again ...