WhereAreWeSeeing

Fascinating and cohesive trip that tears back the ideological barriers surrounding the economy and delves into the real history. Probably the best non-fiction book I have read.

It's literally just dog ppl planning to fight eachother then having a one sided battle. There's no redeeming qualities to this book. The author's Sci-fi concepts are things like dial-up internet and forums. The crew interaction is mild and halfway in way too awkward to be endearing. The main antagonist is basically the main pov character of the book and he's just kind of weird and unrelatable. This reads like a generic children's cartoon movie from 1992, not at all even what I would picture as sci-fi at first thought. The title and cover are genuinely misleading to the point of false advertising. Rename it to one dimensional dog people mess around with things.

The first half has a meh protagonist without any admirable qualities. He has a 1:1 recreation of the movie the human fly, then the second half if this book is sooooo boring. Just random ppl wandering around doing nothing.

The writing in the second half is dramatically better than the first half, if it only gets better from here this will be a 5 star series.

Amazing, has the prose of the last book, but the story is more fast paced, with a few combat scenes.

Honestly redundant if you have read WL&C & TGI.

The main issues with this book are as follows:
1. Like the last book, there is tons of jargon. I have a cursory knowledge of various topics here, but if I didn't this would be completely unreadable.
2. This book has a bigger issue than the previous book, the main character of this book literally does not know what is happening in the story at almost all times. In the previous book, the main character also had somewhat limited knowledge, but he was always trying to piece together what was happening and why the entire time. In this book the main character more or less just goes with the flow and tries to give some contributions occasionally. Obviously this is intentional on the author's part but this makes it annoying to read this book, as you also do not know what is happening in the story or why. This is made worse by how about 20% of the words used in this book are all unexplained sci-fi concepts like “smart paint” that I can only guess is some kind of liquid tablet of some sort, but the character at one point notes it's abundance, so is it everywhere? None of this is made clear at all. If there were illustrations of what the author was talking about then everything would be a lot clearer, the last book had a few pieces of fan-art and that really helped, but this book doesn't have any.

The characters are all likeable, there is almost a fellowship of the ring feel to the plot, but it is held back by 1. Not having a publicly stated goal and 2. We don't learn too much about the characters, just some surface level observations.

The world building and philosophy elements are very good and make it worth reading for someone into that kind of thing

I have only read the first half, but it's a pretty good on the ground view of the Italian communist movement. I do feel like he is overrated as a theorist, he had some contributions, but he is largely just an orthodox Marxist-Leninist, instead of the post-modernist that he is largely presented as.

Decent introduction to the basic of his economic views, albeit really just jumping into Capital is the better call.

Very powerful criticisms of current political movements and the general time period. Still relevant today.

Pretty good entry level analysis of finance with polemics to keep you invested. The actual content is relatively light, a lot of it is examples proving the points, but was worth the read.