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Terrible narrator

Revisado: 10-02-24

I returned it after the first hour or so. I haven't finished the book so I don't know if it's good, but I imagine it is. The narrator is insufferable. He creates these outlandish voices for characters. And he has a sing song monotone. Absolutely Annoying.

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Intriguing plot

Revisado: 09-05-24

I liked the way it interwove real historical mysteries with the sci-fi concept. I'm pretty sure it's a double ending, contrasting the temporal branch created (via time travel) by courageous choice to that created by cautious, protective choice.

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Lots of detailed action

Revisado: 04-17-24

If that's your thing, you will like it. I loved the few pages of appendix at the end that actually developed the political theory of the Culture and the Iderans, and explained the history of the war. I would come back for a whole book of that. But not for more blow-by-blow gunfights.

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Cynical and unnecessary

Revisado: 12-26-23

I read about this in the Wall Street Journal and gave it a try because of that, but even though it has a plausible plot, there is nothing wholesome or substantial about this story. I doubt that there are many people as purely evil as the story makes them out to be. Even though it wants you to believe thatthey are complex and not purely evil.

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Smart, funny, extensive

Revisado: 10-10-23

Recommended to anybody who has been keeping tabs on this aspect of the world over the past several years.

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What is the meaning of human life?

Revisado: 08-10-23

Really excellent philosophical thought experiment about the meaning of life, set on a human survivalist space ship.

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Remarkable sexy moral tale

Revisado: 08-06-23

Intricately plotted metafiction woven around Chekhov play. Final scene is stunning. I can highly recommend.

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Excellent, entertaining throughout

Revisado: 05-08-23

I liked this better than Boardman's The Shining Mountain. It covers some of the same material, but less exhaustively. Tasker has a knack for the telling detail and anecdote. The early climbs are outrageously bumbling. By the end he's a consummate expert, though still pushing it to outrageous limits. No surprise he and Boardman just kept pushing on the east ridge of Everest until they just keeled over and died.

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Simple and consistently engaging

Revisado: 05-01-23

Too bad this era of mountaineers didn't know how to be friends with each other. They could have had a more pleasant time of it. The French team that did the north face in 2017, documented in the film Changabang and the Mirrors of a Repetition, have a much better rapport with each other than Boardman and Tasker.

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Short and sweet

Revisado: 04-03-23

Good stuff but doesn't hold up as one of the best mountain climbing books, I don't think. Too much focused on the author's difficulties governing his own irascibility. Roberts got better as he focused outward. In Search of the Old Ones might be his best.

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