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Customers find the book thought-provoking and well-written, with deeply researched content that redefines our understanding of the climate crisis. Moreover, the writing quality receives positive feedback, with one customer noting it's like 106 mini-chapters. However, the narrative develops slowly and cryptically, and while some find it mind-boggling in a good way, others describe it as boring. Additionally, the readability is mixed, with customers finding it a hard read.
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274 customers mention content, 208 positive, 66 negative
...Good read if a little scary at times. Great take on the Swiss!Read more
Great book that touches on the dark possibility of a world ravished by climate change....Read more
...Frightening and hopeful. If anything, I wish he had spent more time depicting the consequences of unchecked global warming. A truly important book.Read more
This book was preachy and didactic, repeating many things we already knew. The writing was so plodding that I could hardly get through it.Read more
63 customers mention climate change, 54 positive, 9 negative
...downloading with engaging storytelling, character building and worldbuilding....Read more
KSA's world-building is solid, fact-based, and exhaustively researched -- pulling together an impressive number of plausible threads about our...Read more
This book is scarily good. In effect, a treatise on climate change and possible ways to ameliorate it before it’s too late, it is difficult to put...Read more
...looks bleak in many ways, but honest brokers are proposing real solutions to climate change, migration and social norms. No dystopian weirdness here....Read more
45 customers mention research, 37 positive, 8 negative
...Of course, all of his books are well-researched, and that thorough research is largely responsible for the believability of the narrative....Read more
Great writer, one of best in genre. Fully in his style, sharp, detailed and too real. Shivers are OK. I rate this a five.Read more
Must read! Well researched, often frightening, so close to home, but also full of hope and confidence in mankind. Inspiring book.Read more
Well plotted, and very well researched. A bit preachy in spots, and it feels like doom scrolling at times....Read more
43 customers mention science-based, 31 positive, 12 negative
...as massive national solar panels. Gets points for being a science fiction where Economics is the science. Too bad economics is not a science.Read more
...It is a science fiction book about how we can use science to avoid the apocalypse. Read it.Read more
Not science fiction. More like economic fiction....Read more
...array of sources, KSR weaves current technology, economics, politics, science, sociology, and culture together into a whole cloth rendering of Earth...Read more
40 customers mention writing quality, 31 positive, 9 negative
Well written & downright scary of a future we might really see especially given the recent climate and environmental events.Read more
Great writer, one of best in genre. Fully in his style, sharp, detailed and too real. Shivers are OK. I rate this a five.Read more
...Much of it was beautifully written, and very thought provoking, but I felt like it was either too long, or should have been longer but broken into...Read more
A Great & Noble Idea Marred by Mediocre WritingRead more
114 customers mention story, 73 positive, 41 negative
And better than the first a few years ago. A great story of what it will take to get us back on track. Earth will still be here....Read more
...it is a pretty awful book, with a thin veneer of character and implausible plot to paper over what is mostly a long polemical screed.Read more
Interesting premise but goes on almost as long as “War and Peace”....Read more
...The story was well written. It was an interesting story. Having said that, it was a bit confusing at times....Read more
81 customers mention engaging, 50 positive, 31 negative
...chapter length, even though they were clearly well-researched and interesting. The punch line of the book is we can do it; reverse planet warming....Read more
...Didactic, preachy, boring with an unrealistic view of human nature....Read more
...Fascinating and full of compassion....Read more
I enjoyed reading this book and enjoyed the controversial style. Robinson chooses of bouncing between narratives without specific transitions....Read more
51 customers mention readability, 18 positive, 33 negative
...It was not an easy read: the entertainment sometimes tinged with horror; and the weight of the issues we face as a species sometimes forced me to...Read more
This was a hard book to read, so intense, so humbling. My friend said, "Keep reading." I am so happy that I did. There may be hope for us yet....Read more
...the author made the end of the world unbearably pendantic and unreadable….I made it exactly 37% of the way through this book over a couple months...Read more
tough read but if you're solid scifi then you've got this.Read more
