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2023 - 5 years later I finally read the rest of this collection. Woohoo! I finally know why over 77,000 people have rated this so highly. Over those years I've read other sci-fi/speculative author's work, all the way from adventurous to thoughtful to experimental....but I still haven't read anything quite like Ted Chiang. It's satisfying to read the work from a mind that obviously works so differently than your own. I found some of the stories challenging when the character's thoughts veered i
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I only liked four of the eight stories here.
Could not understand Division by Zero and the Evolution of Human Science.
I stopped reading Seventy-Two Letters halfway and skimmed through Hell is the Absence of God.
They are just way too confusing and the subjects are not interesting for me. That is why it takes four months for me to finish this book.
I like the other four a lot. Tower of Babylon is fascinating, Understand is downright fun and Liking What You See: A Documentary is geniu ...more
I only liked four of the eight stories here.
Could not understand Division by Zero and the Evolution of Human Science.
I stopped reading Seventy-Two Letters halfway and skimmed through Hell is the Absence of God.
They are just way too confusing and the subjects are not interesting for me. That is why it takes four months for me to finish this book.
I like the other four a lot. Tower of Babylon is fascinating, Understand is downright fun and Liking What You See: A Documentary is geniu ...more
Irgendwie sind die Geschichten nichts für mich, oder es ist nicht die richtige Zeit für sie. Ich werde bestimmt noch andere Titel von Ted Chiang lesen, aber dieser war leider nicht meins.
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