Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) in Around the World in 80 Books

Apr 22, 2019 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: aliens, fantasy-and-sci-fi, audio, dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic, alternate-planes-and-histories, translation, new-fairy-tale

The world of our every day life was only froth floating on the perfect ocean of deep reality. But now, it appeared that the every day world was a beautiful shell. The micro realities it enclosed, and the macro realities that enclosed it, were far more ugly and chaotic than the shell itself.

This book is a lot. The series is A LOT a lot.

Is it good? I don't know. Does three dimensional space think that four dimensional space is "good"?

Well, okay, it IS good, but I've got questions that I felt w ...more

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Aug 27, 2022 Erica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2022

I finally made it through my first sci-fi book series. I have conflicting feelings of enjoyment about it. Some fun science/physics ideas, pretty bad character development, clunky translation or maybe just a clunky style of writing. The final sentence in the book was a total word slaughter to me. Maybe it could have been worded more eloquently/maybe it was a translation issue. I don't know. For literature it was not my cup of tea. But for some intriguing ideas about physics/cosmic philosophy it w ...more

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