Clemens

Didn't get into it. Good ending thought

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.