onespaceymother's reviews
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These just scratch every itch! Political space adventure, mystery, tech, Romance 

I’ll admit I struggled to engage with this. While it’s really well and tightly crafted the characters were not as developed as I’m used to in scifi. A lot of theoretical physics discussions and I’m not that great on applied physics. Ha!

I know it was written in 1927 and is a product of its time but this one was actually a little tough to get through. The racial terms regarding characters from China was hard.  I continue my March through every Agatha Christie novel.

I thought I’d read this whole novel, but I decided to reread it because my son is reading it in his English class next quarter. As it turns out, I only read the section where he talks about space law and had no memory of the rest of the book. Pretty sure I hadn’t read it!  Anyhow, it’s easy to see why this book was so very popular and immediately picked up for a film. Some of the language did not age well, but overall Mark remains a sympathetic character and funny. I wish that his mental health was explored a little bit more spending a year and a half without seeing another human? That would be extremely difficult.

This book felt like it was written by two people. The mystery was pretty good and the writing was descriptive but got a little repetitive (the phrase lizard brain came up like 25 times).

This was a strange little book. It took a turn about halfway through that I struggled with for a little while, and as we waited through what was a surreal and strange storyline, it wove itself back into reality at the end. The sisters are wry and witty in an honest way, but occasionally felt a little forced.

I got a little lost in the plot sometimes, although I think that might just be the nature of the audiobook. Love Muder Bot!

Read this out loud to Max. He has seen the films and is in love with the story, but it is his first read through. You forget how long it takes to get to the actual quest in the novel. That’s a whole lot of time with hobbit history.