Haruki Murakami is where I find the purest love of reading

While I tend to do most of my reading these days via audio, I'm so happy that I picked this one up in my hands. It's a visual and tactile experience as much as it is to read it. This is not a book heavy on story or content, but instead it's made up of mood and atmosphere. It's utterly beautiful and luxurious, and mysterious. The ending left me a little short, but I suspect that was part of the point. The journey is the reward here.

Time to get back on the saddle

I've spent an inappropriate amount of time in more than one setting trying to determine whether or not this looked interesting enough to buy and read. Why, oh why am I so hesitant on some books? I rarely regret it. Hopefully this shall be another lesson to me ;-)

I have entirely self generated high expectations going into this one. Best not disappoint me!

Interesting. Not quite what I was expecting, but thats what I get for seeing the movie first and reading too much where the movie went wrong summaries. Overall good and an excellent twist on the standard tropes. Surprisingly so considering that it predates so much of that and yet they didn't learn. Movie was fine as it was, but it differs from the book so critically that it's a wonder that they bothered to retain the title.

Let's see what the movie screwed up!

Smaller story than I was hoping but very neatly packed, only one loose string that I'm not sure completely works. Quite satisfying though and engenders the need for the more epic.

Been a while since I've done Asimov, should be a good ride :)

meh. Reading it with the unfair bias of the wrong era but it's too much diary of an encounter with a horrid unfathomable monster and too little actual point to it. Check Cthulhu off my list, but I doubt I'll be back.

Not bad, well, thoroughly enjoyable, yeah, lets just go with that. Pandorum, but with way more luck and far less mystery. Characters lack a certain depth, I think that's my real problem, it's an excellent set up and could have been an an absolutely astonding novel, but it was executed far too shallowly. As is, good popcorn Heinlein, but nothing more.

Yeeaahh...imma gonna have to get he rest of this series. I was in love with this early on, the interaction between the various generations was just lovely. I'm not sure it's the most tidy of time travel flow charts, but the balance between wrapping the individual story of the book and leaving me needing to know what happens next in the series was just about perfect. I particularly enjoyed it in light of having read The Devil in the White City

I suspect that I recognize that some from The Devil in the White City. Oh, look at that, Chicago in the lower right, yup, should make for an interesting ride.

This book wasn't perfect but it was far better than good enough. It was a steady climb all the way through, better the further I got. Interestingly it felt like it was wrapping up maybe 2/3 of the way through only to find its true depth and harmony in the further journey that I did not see coming. Fascinating, entertaining, satisfying.

This book wasn't perfect but it was far better than good enough. It was a steady climb all the way through, better the further I got. Interestingly it felt like it was wrapping up maybe 2/3 of the way through only to find its true depth and harmony in the further journey that I did not see coming. Fascinating, entertaining, satisfying.

I have a mild urge to read this in on matching dates.

I'm a sucker for Jennings' writing. His brand of dorky humor is right on my wavelength. This the least of his three that I've read (Brainiac, Maphead) but hat comes from its structure of basically being a big FAQ compared to the more purposeful explorations. Light, but lovely.