
I love Poul Anderson, I've read so many of his books, as many as I could get my hands on. This one I found on Amazon for less than $2 so I thought I'd give it a read.
Sadly, Anderson tried way too hard this time, going way too deep in his characters and fixated on a ship with everyone having sex with everyone else. I ended up skipping so much junk dialog and character development.
Aaah, I love the murderbot diaries. This one was very different in a few ways and I didn't like it as much. First of all, murderbot is having emotional difficulties to the point where I felt like I was reading a Robert B. Parker novel. I just don't like that kinda stuff. Second, his stream of consciousness kept being redacted. Redacted? How? It's his stream of consciousness. Martha finally explained what happened but never explained why there was redaction. Finally, this book is nowhere as action packed as any of the others. It's like wells wanted to use this book to explore murderbot's emotions and psyche. Bah, who cares? This is a murderbot novel!
An absolutely amazing, eye opening book. Every American should read this to understand the systemic racism in America due to Lost Cause ridiculousness. Lee and all of the confederate soldiers were traitors and it's time the south accepted that. No reasons for confederate monuments anywhere but museums. Rename the roads, schools, and army forts. Other countries don't memorialize their traitors that way
As with most Functional development books I get so far in them then it just becomes incomprehensible. This book is good, but as I started to get bogged down, the descriptions of what was happening became less useful. The author expected me to deduce the details of what was happening when I wanted the author to explain to me what was happening. I had to abandon it less than half way through because I simply stopped understanding it (and I have 30 years of experience as a software developer).
Really good, I love this author's work; always a very intricate foundation and very interesting. Unfortunately, this book takes almost 80% through before it gets interesting and you start to see connections between the parts. There is still a lot that I don't understand and I'm unhappy this is a three part series. This one took so long to read that I may wait a while before picking up the next one.
Good story, I'd started to lose interest in this series, too much detail about how women were treated in the 50's and 60's but understanding that this what the series is really about. This one turned into more of a murder mystery and I really enjoyed. Reading pace picked up and I found myself wanting to see how it ended. It ended quite well.