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Existence
by David Brin (Goodreads Author)
by David Brin (Goodreads Author)
Read it for an hour, and only got 20 pages off. Small font or dense prose. It resembles a school textbook. Seems pretty dazzing, at least the parts I understand. I like it when a book is just a little bit over my head. It would take me about 26 hours to finish the compact 553 pages. Think of the book as really having about 774 pages.
Virtual page multiplier *1.4
I'm tempted to get the ebook, but it looks like this book has a variety of font effects and even some diagrams, which tend to look worse in ebook.
Definitely check out the afterword and resources in the back if you're in a bookstore. Humans are killing each other less these days. Yay!
p 65/553 (vp 91/774) Still introducing new characters (Peng Xiang Bin). Kind of like an anthology where you like some stories better than others. Bring back the space garbageman.
Virtual page multiplier *1.4
I'm tempted to get the ebook, but it looks like this book has a variety of font effects and even some diagrams, which tend to look worse in ebook.
Definitely check out the afterword and resources in the back if you're in a bookstore. Humans are killing each other less these days. Yay!
p 65/553 (vp 91/774) Still introducing new characters (Peng Xiang Bin). Kind of like an anthology where you like some stories better than others. Bring back the space garbageman.
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12 de Jul 22:49
it's weird to judge a book based on its font size...
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I always judge a book on it's font size. Too small and I won't/can't read. I'm listening to the audiobook, wonder if I'm missing much in diagrams etc.
OMG! You've been working on this since JUNE!?!?!?I started the audiobook, went on to something else, picked it back up, went on to something else. I'm now a little over halfway through and still not into it.
David Brin has been one of my favorite authors since the Eighties. I thought my dislike of Kiln People was an anomaly, but this makes that look great. What a mess! It's not making any sense. The audio version has three narrators, two men and a woman. The woman, Robin Miles, is one of my favorites and her performance is great. I haven't heard of either of the men. One is good, the other really sucks.
Please, give me a reason to go on.
Err I haven't continued it in a while. But Tom Merritt finished it. Supposedly Brin has 50 readers that quality control his books. I have no power right now.
