Tom Dawkins

A classic, must read book.

Revisado: 03-11-24

This book is about the past, the settlement of the American West and taming of its rivers, but it's really about the future, and the challenges sure to come due to the lifestyle and farming practices we have adopted in some of the driest places on earth.

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Wonderfully inventive world building

Revisado: 02-19-24

A strange and compelling vision of the far future. Some of Tchaikovsky's best work, a step up from the first book. Excited to move straight on to book 3!

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Brilliant and illuminating

Revisado: 02-15-24

A truly fascinating book about a borderline taboo topic, the benefits (as we as the harms) of the human drive for intoxication. Linking science and anthropology with stories and verse it's a great listen and deeply illuminating.

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Awful yet captivating. Utterly enthralling.

Revisado: 09-09-23

This is like nothing I have read or listened to before. It is so brutal yet so lyrical. The prose is mesmerising and beautifully constructed, with terse yet poetic descriptions of the American West, including of the casual and constant violence of life there. Some of that violence, so effectively described, is hard to get out of your mind afterwards however. Nonetheless, or perhaps because of this, it's a brilliant work of literature. The narrator is great.

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A fascinating true story

Revisado: 04-04-23

This is a fascinating real-world spy story. Exciting, moving and educational. Just a great listen.

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An extraordinary, memorising book

Revisado: 03-26-23

Brilliant book. Thought provoking and lyrical with a kinetic energy and momentum that sweeps you forward, always wondering what will happen next. The characters and world are vivid and believable and the exploration of other intelligences is fascinating and timely. Highly recommended.

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This trilogy starts well but totally loses its way

Revisado: 03-18-23

This review would probably be better on the first book than the third, even though - or especially because - I really liked the first book and it's this one I feel very let down by. The magic system is great and the key characters are pretty interesting at the start of the trilogy but the whole thing degenerates into a conservative Christian allegory with half the characters being teenagers written by someone who seemingly hasn't met a teenager in 30 years. It's a mess.

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A fascinating and thought provoking examination of

Revisado: 03-13-23

This book offers a very different and refreshing angle on AI from others I've read, exploring the environmental and human impacts, and how AI systems are built on very human systems, inevitably taking on their biases and blind spots. Highly recommended for anyone interested in technology.

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An extraordinary book

Revisado: 11-29-22

This is one of the best books I've listened to. Lyrical, lush, and very moving. A unique story extraordinarily well told, it moves back and forth in time following two young people swept up in a world gone mad, this book grabs hold of your heart and doesn't let go. I've only just finished it and already I miss it. The reader is perfect.

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An essential book to understand the world today

Revisado: 10-23-22

This is a harrowing and illuminating book. It explains so many of the dynamics we see around us, from increasing polarization to the popularity of conspiracy theories to the dysfunction of politics and collapse of mainstream media. Highly recommended.

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