This was great fun to read, and dealt with some really interesting subjects. I got slightly side tracked trying to make sense of the time travel (like, is it consistent). To be honest - it is a really unique take on the paradox problem. It did a great job of hinting at a wider fuller world around the story too. I found the ending a bit "neat" given the whole book had been around the complexities of real life.
A mixed book - the mindfulness description (Ch 4) I thought was really good, as was the conclusion - a strong passionate case for why we all need to take more care of our thoughts. However, the books "jokes" are too frequent, and not funny. More often than not they are fat-phobic or racist.
I was really looking forward to this. It deals with some really interesting ideas - most notably the battle between rationality and missing out on the magic of life. However, it also deals with a bunch of modern real issues (such as the refugee crisis, and the turmoil in parts of the middle east) without a huge amount of sensitivity. It also ends in quite an unsatisfactory manner.
A fun dumb sci-fi novel. It was a little uncomfortable the way one lead character (2?M) talks about the (17F) other lead. The tropes were rife. But it was a well paced, easy read.
In the end, I enjoyed Green Mars. It took a long time to get going, with a lot of detail that it could have frankly done without, but the revolution that happens in the back 8th of the book, was fascinating and felt very timely.
I enjoyed this, but not as much as other Philip K Dick books I've read. The ending felt a bit anti-climatic - though apparently Dick intended to write a sequel, but couldn't face reading more about the Nazis.
I enjoyed this even more than I remembered enjoying it. I got a lot more out of it than the first time through, and I still find the wheeled people just so fantastic.
This book ended up being even better than I remember it! I could hardly put it down. There's a lot more subtly than I can remember (unsurprisingly). I am very glad I chose to re-read this before diving into the Book of Dust. I will definitely be reading the Amber Spyglass next. It also served as welcome escape from Covid, that is currently infecting everything (as well as everyone) in our lifes.
This is a really enjoyable, sexy queer book, with a somewhat flat ending. It felt like the whole book was building to a big gradual reveal, that came about two chapters before the end of the book. Then it just carries on, without really having anything more to say.
I really enjoyed this. It was particularly enjoyable being able to recognise places from around Oxford. It made me want to reread Northern Lights now I live in Oxford. Found some of the fantasy stuff a bit jarring and surprising, but it was hard to put down from beginning to end.