john holst

This book was much more heavy and hard hitting than the first. Lots of tough topics touched. I am excited to see where it goes next. 

I read the bobiverse books before this but I have to say the author had the same vibe even on his first book. If you loved the bobiverse series you'll enjoy this one as well. 

This was a very well written, well paced book. I loved the version of the future that was depicted. It felt very real. The idea that the “replicator” would turn us into healthy “potatoes” instead of the federation of planets seems very possible given social media and streaming entertainment services and how you basically never have to leave your home already. 

It takes about half the book to get up and running but it starts off with a bang. 

The parts of the book that take place on earth can be a slog. Always wanting to get back to the interesting Proxima planet. It was alright!

It's a very interesting topic and had a lot of ideas I found appealing (as an American). Not sure how hopeful I'd find his predictions if I was not American. Though, the whole book I kept wondering. Wouldn't all itd take for this not to pass is Americans as a collective to not abandon the rest of the world. We seem to like to get into other people's business. Seems weird to assume that it'll peter out as we b come energy independent. Who knows. It's been 7 years. The world doesn't seem that much different from 2014 from here. Pandemic aside. 

I listened to this book and maybe that was a misstep. The narrator was not good but also the dialog was very clunky. So it's hard to pull those apart. The idea and plot point is fun but it's executed in a weird way. I love Jurassic park but I feel like I've read better nanomachine fiction. 

The author writes very reflective books that are informative insightful and make me want to come back to back to them again and again. 

I listened to the audiobook. It was very good and emotional.

Based on the book jacket synopsis I thought this would be like 25% more scifi at least. But it's very very VERY subtle in that regard. Never said out loud. Only inferred. I wish it delved more deeply into the scifi and explanation side. 

This was a very good book. The dicotomy between the two characters and their similarities was a real draw. The author really builds a back story in an interesting and emotional way. I normally read scifi and this could fit into that but I think it also fits into what my wife finds more interesting to read which is definitely not scifi. There was more character and emotion here than I would normally pick out but I'm glad I picked this one up.

I finished this on audio book as it's easier to digest while spoken. There's a lot to process here. If you liked nudge or any of Micheal lewis' books or even freakonomics then this is a good book for you. 

Some of the short stories were interesting but not big and awesome like his longer series' or other big books.  Some of them felt so small they didn't even need to be the 100 or so pages they were. 

I was explaining this book to a friend before I was done and I think he got hung up on how nudging could be used for bad or evil and the book didn't really address this til the end for a short chapter. I agree alot of nudges could be helpful but the transparency and respect required to stop evil nudges is also troublesome. 

I devoured this book. It was very martian-esque. Much more so than Artemis. I enjoyed the entire story front to back. Andy weir is very good. 

I love the murderbot diaries. They are so well written. I thought of earlier while returning it to the library. Wells has created a social anxiety super hero. Or maybe a super hero on the spectrum. Very good. 

Man, Kim Stanley Robinson can really write. This was both somber and hopeful, optimistic but realistic.

I listened to this one, but read the previous 2. It's probably the best way to enjoy this series. There is a lot of superfluous languages and descriptions and tangents that the narrator goes on that during a normal book read I would skim to get the jist because it can be very verbose. But the audio narration helps you get the full flavor of the story the way it was intended without having to read and reread the same flowery language over and over.

This was a weird one. It started as fan fiction to the original trilogy that the author allowed to be cannon. It gets very very meta at the end. It essentially fills in gaps in the story and fleshes them out more and explains more of the end of the trilogy. 

I picked this up because it involved ai. I was entertained but I do not think it was a good book persay. I feel like the author used the same solution to a few minor things multiple times and repeated dialogue too often. It was weird. It also seemingly abandoned the ai's visual perspective halfway through and skipped a lot of her evolution to finding the good in humans.

It's neither offensive nor amazing but it is a quick ride of a read. I wouldn't mind reading sequels. 

Not as fun as the first book but it had its moments. I hope the series continues. 

I read this thick boy over two long borrows from the library. It's very detailed. I enjoy obamas writing cadence but tended to skim through parts describing less than important people to get through to the more exciting or nostalgic descriptions of his first term. The foreshadowing and the hindsight really hit home knowing what came after obama. Can't wait for his next book. 

This was a really heart felt and emotional book. I usually read science fiction both hard and soft and the description of this book gave it that vibe but by the time I realized it was less sci-fi and more interpersonal it had already hooked me. 

a very obvious two patter this book moved too slowly. There was not enough interaction between the main characters. Lots more inside the heads of the people the chapters were about. 

There have been better expanse books.