Existence

One I will have to re-read and assess after sometime has passed. Brin never fails to engage the mind.Ideas flow thick and fast.Characters playing out their lives in plausible future environments and events. However perhaps too many,too quick. For some reason I keep thinking of an interactive video game rather than a novel. This may be unfair because I cant articulate why. I didnt make much of an emotional connection with any of the characters.As I reached the end I didnt care about what happened to anybody although I did about what would happen to our species. Brin made me care about chatterbox individual dolphins in the past [so much so i wish he'd get back to them] so probably my expectations arent that high. He's clearly doing a “Brunner” and I applaud him for that as its a style worth keeping alive. Earth was a book of ideas and the characters plus the ideas and events drove the plot.
But I need to re read maybe the ideas just overpowered the story and second time around I'll find it a more enjoying read.