This book was a big complicated mess, but the story was decent. The way that reality started to fall apart wasn’t all that appealing to me. I like the philotic connections that they make up, but the way that things crumble when they aren’t being paid attention to was a little much. I’m interested to read more about the communications with the new race.
This was a great finale to the story of Bean and Achilles. There were many parts of this that I didn’t expect, and that made it all the more interesting. I was also surprised by how well planned some of the moves were, making it very neat to see them come through. I liked this story especially well since the motivations behind all of the characters were very believable and understandable. The only one I was a little surprised about was Bean and Petra with their embryos, but I think that was a bit of the Mormon influence coming through.
This was a really pleasant book, that had a lot of background on the diskworld. The amusing parts about death and how he didn’t want the job anymore were very nice. I liked the way he treated the cats in the story. I look forward to reading more of the diskworld books.
This was a really good overview of the very specific job of trying to be a Startup CEO. It makes me realize that I’m going to have to really step it up on many of the leadership and communication parts that I’m not particularly good at or have experience in. I’m starting to work on it beginning with organization. If you want to be a CEO of a startup this is a must read.
This was a really nice alternative look at Ender’s Game. I really like the character Bean, and did in the original book as well. I’m looking forward to reading more about him in the next books.
This was a good Diskworld book. I prefer the other’s I’ve ready, but I’m still to run across a Diskworld book I don’t like. The story in this was a bit more coherent, with more of a point and purpose. I think that took away from it a bit, with the writing style not lending itself to serious stories well. I’m going to wait for a while before continuing on the Diskworld books, and it will be nice.
This was a great continuation of the first diskworld book. I very much enjoyed it and love the characters. The way strange things always come up that should have been there all along is also amusing, and with the style of the books isn’t annoying. If suddenly all rocks become trolls at night, then that doesn’t seem like all that strange an idea; even if they didn’t become trolls any of the previous nights. The ending to the story is epic, and seems to be a little final. It is a shame since I really enjoy the characters in these two books. I look forward to continuing my romp through the diskworld books when reading other things gets too heavy.
This book takes the ethical dilemmas of the previous book in the Ender series and pushes it more into the abstract. It looks at many of the grey areas and talks about how manipulation of another being is also wrong, but to a certain degree. This is well exampled as the two viruses at the end, the first is understood and accepted by the aliens, but the second is forced upon an unknowing populous. Both of these seem right in the given context, but they are very differently implemented. I look forward to the next books. The metaphysics was a little odd, especially when the Peter and Valentine show up. I wasn’t expecting that, and it is a big grey area in itself. I think there will be a lot more about it in the next book since he talked about that in the post-word.
This book is good, but not as good as Founders Dilemma. The book touches on a little bit later in the process, and on business instead of people. The focus is nice and we will be doing this very soon, and are already starting on it now. The book talks a lot about good structures about finding out what you don’t know. There is also a great bit about how you should take lots of risks in the short term, but always have the long term in mind. I need to follow my tenant of not having fear, but looking at things logically.
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