I liked it just fine. It's better than In the Garden of Beasts, by a long shot, but not as good as Devil in the White City. I feel like Larson needs an editor. He does this amazing research, and puts it together in a compelling way, but in the Splendid and the Vile, I kept reading some sections that were kind of dull but he clearly wanted to include b/c he'd done all the leg work for the info.
Kindred by Octavia Butler 9.5/10 Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler 8.5/10 Wildflowers of Texas by Michael Eason 10/10 Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham 9/10 The Social Archaeology of a Late Mississippian Town in Northwestern Georgia by David J. Hally 9/10 Surreal Numbers by Donald E. Knuth 8.5/10 Value in Ethics and Economics by Elizabeth Anderson 9/10 Earth is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov 7.5/10 A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Jana Levin 8/10 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou 9/10 How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg 8/10 The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg 8/10 Reamde by Neal Stephenson 9/10 Neutron Star by Larry Niven 7/10 Plant Systematics by Michael G. Simpson 10/10 The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton 9/10 Temeraire Fantasy Series - His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik 9/10 Temeraire Fantasy Series - Throne of Jade 9/10 Temeraire Fantasy Series - Black Powder War 9/10 Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis 6.5/10 It's still good. Just not at the level of other reads is all.
I really need to get on the Amazon ship stuff for my box...I've just been lazy and haven't ordered things So I'm reading Blood Meridian (again), The Fireman... And The Son, again for the 3rd time. Such a great book.
Anybody read this? I have not read an actual book in maybe 15 years, I don't have the attention span anymore, I used to read a book a day sometimes in the summer. Thinking about starting this since I enjoyed the series so much and would like to find out mor about the background of the families in the show.
Came on here to post about this. Could not disagree more. I loved the first book, but Ready Player 2 is the same story, only much lamer. And all of the D&D/Hobbit stuff? Far too much involving that.
Finally getting to it...... Finished the Foundation Series somewhat recently and that's up there with the Hyperion Cantos for me. About half way through and I am enjoying it. The world building is top notch even though it really tosses you into this world with very little explanation.
I read this a while ago -- is it just the first book that's great? I seem to remember reading a few and they rapidly declined in quality. I definitely want to read the first book again.
That's what I hear. I really enjoyed the Hyperion Cantos but it kept getting more out there and more meta the further you went on.
