Beautiful, heart wrenching book, that's not for attentionally challenged social media hummingbirds of today's. As a parent of daughter myself, I identBeautiful, heart wrenching book, that's not for attentionally challenged social media hummingbirds of today's. As a parent of daughter myself, I identified to scary degree with possibility of losing her and felt every flatter of the saddened father's heart.
And not only that, he separated with his wife right after the unfortunate event, which is obviously to point out that parenthood was the only glue left between them. That, as well as the fact that separation and wife aren't mentioned a lot in the rest of the book, makes the things even more sad. Because, it's the clue this guy, ordinary in every possible regard except his capacity to love, was living for one and only thing, his daughter.
This book is study in despair and one of those ultimate human conditions, most of us are fortunate enough never having to go through. But if and when tragedy strucks, downward spiral to hell on earth is there waiting to lure the suffering soul in its seductive grip.
That's what happened here, and it sounded so real and believable I honestly wasn't aware I was reading fiction right till the end. Granted, the language is extremely poetic and hard to follow at times, but I just thought this is biographical account of a person with real writing talent.
Word of advice: take this book very, very slow. It's literary equivalent of fractals. The world of human experience is condensed in clusters consisting of just a few words, and if you're rushing, you're going to miss the whole planets of sadness, exhilaration and meaning....more
A true masterpiece from the lost, ancient times when writing took talent, knowledge of grammar, years of schooling of one's own imagination and tastesA true masterpiece from the lost, ancient times when writing took talent, knowledge of grammar, years of schooling of one's own imagination and tastes while marinading in the works of other great authors that lit the path, and buckets of sweat to join these "hard" and "soft" skills into enjoyable, coherent whole.
And that's all you need to know. I'll just point to one sweet, pretty unique, almost naive feature that's veritable specialty of this book. It's the direct insight into the mental processes of pretty much every character, positive or negative, before he says something, after he hears something, and before and after he does something. Nothing is hidden. You're the reader, silent witness, miles away on the planet with normal spices without mystic properties, and normal-sized worms, and couldn't help them if you screamed your face off through the wormhole. Which you wouldn't want to do anyway because every single one of them has more elaborate mental processes than any living woman or man ever did, especially in constrained, dire, life changing circumstances like those described. And it's never ending chain of such events.
That's the beauty of this kind of literature. It's contagious. And elevating. It's fantasy through and through, and yet, it's exactly this kind of "magic", human thinking that we're doing anyway, that makes it believable and intriguing. It makes you wanna upgrade your mental OS, and keep doing it to become something more. Or simply, better human being....more
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I DONOVAN
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I more or less spilled everything I had to say about it. The specifics of each book are in the blurb anyway, anything else would be a spoil. And last, but not least, I believe great books such as these deserve an exposure. So there.
THIS. INCREDIBLE. SERIES.
I've read some sci-fi colonization books in my days, but this is epic beyond comparison, except maybe The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. And execution is just right. Nothing is too little or too much. These books, all five of them, are the perfect inhabitants of Goldilocks zone of written universe.
In cases like this, it’s important to pay the tribute to narrators. Maybe that’s because they contribute to your overall experience almost as much as the creator of the book. Is that a blasphemy? Maybe, but that’s how impressed I am. So, Alyssa Bresnahan. She puts another layer of „creation” on top of the written source. Just incredible. Male and female voices switching incredibly smooth. All the nuances in emotional variation induced by subtle use of words and phrases, which you would probably miss if you were reading this in written form, in the silence of your mind... Yeah, that’s why I prefer audio.
And what an interesting twist it is with their unique brand of space travel. They’re traveling by means of technology called „inverting of symetry”. For said symetry to be inverted a formula is used that nobody really understands how it works. It needs to be just right or the ship is going to take forever to reach its destination. Or end up in a limbo between the universes so crew will have to revert to some unpopular measures, such as cannibalism just for a handful of them to survive. Or there will be significant or huge discrepancy between ship's time and "outside" time, resulting in all kinds of royal fuckups. Like, whole dynasty of royal families-level fuckups. Basically, on Earth, they don't know if their ships ever reach the target, and on Donovan, they can't be sure if it ever got back to Earth. And they're arriving in almost random order. The first ship launched from Earth could very well arrive the last, although it might seem the transition was instantaneous to the crew. In fact, 30 or so years have passed, but because there's miscommunication, the ship coming from Earth never brings needed equipment the colonials miss desperately.
There's just perfect amount of tech to call it a sci-fi. More than enough of tragedy and loss to call it drama or epic. And just right amount of mystique and inner turmoil induced by good probability that the most beloved character will be taken away from you due to the fact that literally everything on the planet can and will kill you if you’re not super careful, equipped, informed, lucky, or just naturally super savvy, preferably all of the above. The planet is a beast, but interestingly, the Donovans, as they now call themselves, chose that beast over the other one, waiting for them on Earth if they ever come back: humanity and what has become of it.
TLDR; This is fantastic book without much competition. However, I’m reading the Dune these days while trying to assemble my thoughts around this series, and yeah, there trully is similarity. Planet with an atmosphere that can support human life, but more dangerous and unhospitable than anything anybody could have predicted? Check. Ab original inhabitants (organisms) that give you zero chance of survival if faced? Check. Colonists that somehow find their modus vivendi and manage to thrive in impossible conditions? Check. Charismatic members among them who somehow become one with the planet through digestion of the very tissue of it and/or of its natural inhabitants? Check. Yeah the Dune is up there as legendary achievement, but this too is excellent book the lovers of that perennial masterpiece might appreciate very much. The writing style is completely different, but there’s certain... template, executed in original manner. Read it....more
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I DONOVAN
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I more or less spilled everything I had to say about it. The specifics of each book are in the blurb anyway, anything else would be a spoil. And last, but not least, I believe great books such as these deserve an exposure. So there.
THIS. INCREDIBLE. SERIES.
I've read some sci-fi colonization books in my days, but this is epic beyond comparison, except maybe The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. And execution is just right. Nothing is too little or too much. These books, all five of them, are the perfect inhabitants of Goldilocks zone of written universe.
In cases like this, it’s important to pay the tribute to narrators. Maybe that’s because they contribute to your overall experience almost as much as the creator of the book. Is that a blasphemy? Maybe, but that’s how impressed I am. So, Alyssa Bresnahan. She puts another layer of „creation” on top of the written source. Just incredible. Male and female voices switching incredibly smooth. All the nuances in emotional variation induced by subtle use of words and phrases, which you would probably miss if you were reading this in written form, in the silence of your mind... Yeah, that’s why I prefer audio.
And what an interesting twist it is with their unique brand of space travel. They’re traveling by means of technology called „inverting of symetry”. For said symetry to be inverted a formula is used that nobody really understands how it works. It needs to be just right or the ship is going to take forever to reach its destination. Or end up in a limbo between the universes so crew will have to revert to some unpopular measures, such as cannibalism just for a handful of them to survive. Or there will be significant or huge discrepancy between ship's time and "outside" time, resulting in all kinds of royal fuckups. Like, whole dynasty of royal families-level fuckups. Basically, on Earth, they don't know if their ships ever reach the target, and on Donovan, they can't be sure if it ever got back to Earth. And they're arriving in almost random order. The first ship launched from Earth could very well arrive the last, although it might seem the transition was instantaneous to the crew. In fact, 30 or so years have passed, but because there's miscommunication, the ship coming from Earth never brings needed equipment the colonials miss desperately.
There's just perfect amount of tech to call it a sci-fi. More than enough of tragedy and loss to call it drama or epic. And just right amount of mystique and inner turmoil induced by good probability that the most beloved character will be taken away from you due to the fact that literally everything on the planet can and will kill you if you’re not super careful, equipped, informed, lucky, or just naturally super savvy, preferably all of the above. The planet is a beast, but interestingly, the Donovans, as they now call themselves, chose that beast over the other one, waiting for them on Earth if they ever come back: humanity and what has become of it.
TLDR; This is fantastic book without much competition. However, I’m reading the Dune these days while trying to assemble my thoughts around this series, and yeah, there trully is similarity. Planet with an atmosphere that can support human life, but more dangerous and unhospitable than anything anybody could have predicted? Check. Ab original inhabitants (organisms) that give you zero chance of survival if faced? Check. Colonists that somehow find their modus vivendi and manage to thrive in impossible conditions? Check. Charismatic members among them who somehow become one with the planet through digestion of the very tissue of it and/or of its natural inhabitants? Check. Yeah the Dune is up there as legendary achievement, but this too is excellent book the lovers of that perennial masterpiece might appreciate very much. The writing style is completely different, but there’s certain... template, executed in original manner. Read it....more
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I DONOVAN
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I more or less spilled everything I had to say about it. The specifics of each book are in the blurb anyway, anything else would be a spoil. And last, but not least, I believe great books such as these deserve an exposure. So there.
THIS. INCREDIBLE. SERIES.
I've read some sci-fi colonization books in my days, but this is epic beyond comparison, except maybe The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. And execution is just right. Nothing is too little or too much. These books, all five of them, are the perfect inhabitants of Goldilocks zone of written universe.
In cases like this, it’s important to pay the tribute to narrators. Maybe that’s because they contribute to your overall experience almost as much as the creator of the book. Is that a blasphemy? Maybe, but that’s how impressed I am. So, Alyssa Bresnahan. She puts another layer of „creation” on top of the written source. Just incredible. Male and female voices switching incredibly smooth. All the nuances in emotional variation induced by subtle use of words and phrases, which you would probably miss if you were reading this in written form, in the silence of your mind... Yeah, that’s why I prefer audio.
And what an interesting twist it is with their unique brand of space travel. They’re traveling by means of technology called „inverting of symetry”. For said symetry to be inverted a formula is used that nobody really understands how it works. It needs to be just right or the ship is going to take forever to reach its destination. Or end up in a limbo between the universes so crew will have to revert to some unpopular measures, such as cannibalism just for a handful of them to survive. Or there will be significant or huge discrepancy between ship's time and "outside" time, resulting in all kinds of royal fuckups. Like, whole dynasty of royal families-level fuckups. Basically, on Earth, they don't know if their ships ever reach the target, and on Donovan, they can't be sure if it ever got back to Earth. And they're arriving in almost random order. The first ship launched from Earth could very well arrive the last, although it might seem the transition was instantaneous to the crew. In fact, 30 or so years have passed, but because there's miscommunication, the ship coming from Earth never brings needed equipment the colonials miss desperately.
There's just perfect amount of tech to call it a sci-fi. More than enough of tragedy and loss to call it drama or epic. And just right amount of mystique and inner turmoil induced by good probability that the most beloved character will be taken away from you due to the fact that literally everything on the planet can and will kill you if you’re not super careful, equipped, informed, lucky, or just naturally super savvy, preferably all of the above. The planet is a beast, but interestingly, the Donovans, as they now call themselves, chose that beast over the other one, waiting for them on Earth if they ever come back: humanity and what has become of it.
TLDR; This is fantastic book without much competition. However, I’m reading the Dune these days while trying to assemble my thoughts around this series, and yeah, there trully is similarity. Planet with an atmosphere that can support human life, but more dangerous and unhospitable than anything anybody could have predicted? Check. Ab original inhabitants (organisms) that give you zero chance of survival if faced? Check. Colonists that somehow find their modus vivendi and manage to thrive in impossible conditions? Check. Charismatic members among them who somehow become one with the planet through digestion of the very tissue of it and/or of its natural inhabitants? Check. Yeah the Dune is up there as legendary achievement, but this too is excellent book the lovers of that perennial masterpiece might appreciate very much. The writing style is completely different, but there’s certain... template, executed in original manner. Read it....more
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I DONOVAN
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I more or less spilled everything I had to say about it. The specifics of each book are in the blurb anyway, anything else would be a spoil. And last, but not least, I believe great books such as these deserve an exposure. So there.
THIS. INCREDIBLE. SERIES.
I've read some sci-fi colonization books in my days, but this is epic beyond comparison, except maybe The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. And execution is just right. Nothing is too little or too much. These books, all five of them, are the perfect inhabitants of Goldilocks zone of written universe.
In cases like this, it’s important to pay the tribute to narrators. Maybe that’s because they contribute to your overall experience almost as much as the creator of the book. Is that a blasphemy? Maybe, but that’s how impressed I am. So, Alyssa Bresnahan. She puts another layer of „creation” on top of the written source. Just incredible. Male and female voices switching incredibly smooth. All the nuances in emotional variation induced by subtle use of words and phrases, which you would probably miss if you were reading this in written form, in the silence of your mind... Yeah, that’s why I prefer audio.
And what an interesting twist it is with their unique brand of space travel. They’re traveling by means of technology called „inverting of symetry”. For said symetry to be inverted a formula is used that nobody really understands how it works. It needs to be just right or the ship is going to take forever to reach its destination. Or end up in a limbo between the universes so crew will have to revert to some unpopular measures, such as cannibalism just for a handful of them to survive. Or there will be significant or huge discrepancy between ship's time and "outside" time, resulting in all kinds of royal fuckups. Like, whole dynasty of royal families-level fuckups. Basically, on Earth, they don't know if their ships ever reach the target, and on Donovan, they can't be sure if it ever got back to Earth. And they're arriving in almost random order. The first ship launched from Earth could very well arrive the last, although it might seem the transition was instantaneous to the crew. In fact, 30 or so years have passed, but because there's miscommunication, the ship coming from Earth never brings needed equipment the colonials miss desperately.
There's just perfect amount of tech to call it a sci-fi. More than enough of tragedy and loss to call it drama or epic. And just right amount of mystique and inner turmoil induced by good probability that the most beloved character will be taken away from you due to the fact that literally everything on the planet can and will kill you if you’re not super careful, equipped, informed, lucky, or just naturally super savvy, preferably all of the above. The planet is a beast, but interestingly, the Donovans, as they now call themselves, chose that beast over the other one, waiting for them on Earth if they ever come back: humanity and what has become of it.
TLDR; This is fantastic book without much competition. However, I’m reading the Dune these days while trying to assemble my thoughts around this series, and yeah, there trully is similarity. Planet with an atmosphere that can support human life, but more dangerous and unhospitable than anything anybody could have predicted? Check. Ab original inhabitants (organisms) that give you zero chance of survival if faced? Check. Colonists that somehow find their modus vivendi and manage to thrive in impossible conditions? Check. Charismatic members among them who somehow become one with the planet through digestion of the very tissue of it and/or of its natural inhabitants? Check. Yeah the Dune is up there as legendary achievement, but this too is excellent book the lovers of that perennial masterpiece might appreciate very much. The writing style is completely different, but there’s certain... template, executed in original manner. Read it....more
NOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I more orNOTE: This is one and the same review for all the books in this series. Why? Because the quality of the whole series is very consistent, and I more or less spilled everything I had to say about it. The specifics of each book are in the blurb anyway, anything else would be a spoil. And last, but not least, I believe great books such as these deserve an exposure. So there.
THIS. INCREDIBLE. SERIES.
I've read some sci-fi colonization books in my days, but this is epic beyond comparison, except maybe The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. And execution is just right. Nothing is too little or too much. These books, all five of them, are the perfect inhabitants of Goldilocks zone of written universe.
In cases like this, it’s important to pay the tribute to narrators. Maybe that’s because they contribute to your overall experience almost as much as the creator of the book. Is that a blasphemy? Maybe, but that’s how impressed I am. So, Alyssa Bresnahan. She puts another layer of „creation” on top of the written source. Just incredible. Male and female voices switching incredibly smooth. All the nuances in emotional variation induced by subtle use of words and phrases, which you would probably miss if you were reading this in written form, in the silence of your mind... Yeah, that’s why I prefer audio.
And what an interesting twist it is with their unique brand of space travel. They’re traveling by means of technology called „inverting of symetry”. For said symetry to be inverted a formula is used that nobody really understands how it works. It needs to be just right or the ship is going to take forever to reach its destination. Or end up in a limbo between the universes so crew will have to revert to some unpopular measures, such as cannibalism just for a handful of them to survive. Or there will be significant or huge discrepancy between ship's time and "outside" time, resulting in all kinds of royal fuckups. Like, whole dynasty of royal families-level fuckups. Basically, on Earth, they don't know if their ships ever reach the target, and on Donovan, they can't be sure if it ever got back to Earth. And they're arriving in almost random order. The first ship launched from Earth could very well arrive the last, although it might seem the transition was instantaneous to the crew. In fact, 30 or so years have passed, but because there's miscommunication, the ship coming from Earth never brings needed equipment the colonials miss desperately.
There's just perfect amount of tech to call it a sci-fi. More than enough of tragedy and loss to call it drama or epic. And just right amount of mystique and inner turmoil induced by good probability that the most beloved character will be taken away from you due to the fact that literally everything on the planet can and will kill you if you’re not super careful, equipped, informed, lucky, or just naturally super savvy, preferably all of the above. The planet is a beast, but interestingly, the Donovans, as they now call themselves, chose that beast over the other one, waiting for them on Earth if they ever come back: humanity and what has become of it.
TLDR; This is fantastic book without much competition. However, I’m reading the Dune these days while trying to assemble my thoughts around this series, and yeah, there trully is similarity. Planet with an atmosphere that can support human life, but more dangerous and unhospitable than anything anybody could have predicted? Check. Ab original inhabitants (organisms) that give you zero chance of survival if faced? Check. Colonists that somehow find their modus vivendi and manage to thrive in impossible conditions? Check. Charismatic members among them who somehow become one with the planet through digestion of the very tissue of it and/or of its natural inhabitants? Check. Yeah the Dune is up there as legendary achievement, but this too is excellent book the lovers of that perennial masterpiece might appreciate very much. The writing style is completely different, but there’s certain... template, executed in original manner. Read it....more
No matter how cookie cutter it may sound, I'll say it: this is incredible, beautiful book. Just beautiful. But what's so beautiful, you might think, iNo matter how cookie cutter it may sound, I'll say it: this is incredible, beautiful book. Just beautiful. But what's so beautiful, you might think, in reading about slow demise of two lonely people? I'd say, it's all about Shared Experience. It's a rare friend who's really going to share his life with you even during seemingly honest conversation over couple of beers. Here, you get that rare chance of witnessing life of another. Actually, two characters that are so real as if they're alive and sitting with you in your room. Of course, and that's something I find out only after reading, obvious reason is that they ARE real life people. Still, it's incredible feat and proof of the author's skill. The ending is quite... heavy, and I really hoped there was a sequel, even completely fictional. Guess not....more
2022. will definitely be the year of Greig Beck for me. He's becoming one of my favorite authors, and synonym for pure reading pleasure. This is a des2022. will definitely be the year of Greig Beck for me. He's becoming one of my favorite authors, and synonym for pure reading pleasure. This is a descriptor that just comes out spontaneously, exactly as it did in case of To the Center of the Earth. His distilled style of unpretentious, no bullshit writing simply works for me, big time. And boy is it refreshing golden middle road between homebrew and quasi high brow, I mean unedited self published crap that's inflating the Kindle market and works of the kind probably not even authors themselves know what they're about. So this... is like so much needed coming back to the source....more
Classic Nabokov. Which, of course, means a masterpiece. What Vlado did here is creating a completely believable character who clumsily tries to functiClassic Nabokov. Which, of course, means a masterpiece. What Vlado did here is creating a completely believable character who clumsily tries to function in this world, but only through the very narrow prism of perennial truths contained in the game's laws and patterns. How he did that, I mean, interspersing real life and protagonist's surroundings with what's going on inside him, which is, always was, and always will be - the chess - is a thing of magic that only He is capable of....more
Pretty good story, which shows its greatness only after it fully wraps up in the end. Until then, the enjoyability factor was somewhere around 3 for mPretty good story, which shows its greatness only after it fully wraps up in the end. Until then, the enjoyability factor was somewhere around 3 for me, primarily because it's heavily female-perspective-centered, in a manner of what the author imagines the female perspective of that time (1st-2nd world war era) would be. It strikes me mostly as cookie cutter psychology and sociology of pregnant female without a baby daddy....more
I don't know how some authors do it. I had to check online resources several times to confirm this is indeed fiction, not biographical account. You knI don't know how some authors do it. I had to check online resources several times to confirm this is indeed fiction, not biographical account. You know, like when you're distracted with something else so you neurotically go back to check if you forgot to turn off the gas. So I was constantly "distracted" with detail after organic detail, that lived so naturally inside this fictional story. The distraction, paradoxically, consisted of me becoming completely immersed in something other then outside world, which is not how I normally operate. So every once in a while, I was like being awaken from a dream, wondering where and who I was. But inbetween, I was pulled in so thoroughly that I kept forgetting that real, or my personal world existed. I became this book, that Mandolin boy that kept his arms around his instrument even while being treated for lice, and all to his moment of death. That alone, is a pinnacle of sadness if I ever saw one. But what's even more sad, is that this piece of fiction (if that's what it is) can freely be considered only a placeholder for thousands of similar, sad fates that happened to real people during the darkest era of humanity. Along with dozens of other, similarly heart breaking details, that I can't imagine being anything else except some kind of collages from real people and their stories, this book will remain vivid in my mind and heart for the rest of my life. And I'll keep coming back to it. I owe it to Mandolin Boy....more
This is the fact no one can argue: this is the trippiest book ever written since caveman drew a first line on a stone. Both in the literal sense, you This is the fact no one can argue: this is the trippiest book ever written since caveman drew a first line on a stone. Both in the literal sense, you know, like actual traveling, and metaphorical one, if you're one of those calmly logical weirdos that would consider psychedelic tripping actually staying in place and letting your mind go wild.
In this case, the trip is so wild there's zero chance of ever getting back to the place where it started, and feeling the same. But then, this is why people travel, for the experience of some fundamental change.
Still doubting? How about for the fact of one man living through so many lives and experiences that they surpass cumulative experience mass of the entire rest of humanity that ever lived? How about him loving the same person - the AI of his own production - that whole length of time?
And if you're simply one of those traffic engineers that stumbled upon this book by accident, how about traveling through the whole universe and back, several times? How about experiencing it so thoroughly that now you now its actual SHAPE?
The book is different than the first one, and you might not like that at first. Especially since there won't be even a hint on what's actually going on until second half of a book, I think. And even when it's explained, it's a tough concept to comprehend, really. It's ok with me, because in situations such as these I'm perfectly ok with the fact that I might be of limited intelligence, or just plain stupid in some situations, so I just let it flow.
The payoff is usually there, and here certainly is, in the form of satisfying feeling of "ok, that kinda makes sense, and it was also a LOT of fun". And that's all I'm asking from a book.
The only question remains, is there a hope even for the THIRD one? Please? These characters are my family now....more
When you get depressed realizing you just crossed over 50% mark in a book and there's more fun you already had than it's awaiting for you, experiencinWhen you get depressed realizing you just crossed over 50% mark in a book and there's more fun you already had than it's awaiting for you, experiencing mini version of middle life crysis, you know you're reading one of those special books. Simply put, this is one of the best books I've ever read. I won't even go in depth with all philosophical, metaphysical and transhumanist details this book is brimming with. Enough to say everything's there that's actual these days among theorists of human and artificial consciousness. But feel completely to ignore all that. What you absolutely need to know is that this book is MASSIVE fun. And there's something incredibly likeable about main protagonist and AI that he's created. Even when they're wrong, they're somehow right because the way they're reacting is simply - human....more
Phenomenal! Magnificent! I didn't expect this much, to be honest. I hoped for something close to good attempt at honoring the first book, but this....Phenomenal! Magnificent! I didn't expect this much, to be honest. I hoped for something close to good attempt at honoring the first book, but this.... It's complete monumental tribute to the grandeur of original and its author. In some small first part of the book, I was preying like a hawk for anything that might trigger cynical fanboy in me to go "oh yeah, just as I expected. Nice try, but no." That never really happened. It only got better and better. Perfect sequel (actually, a prequel) to the perfect book. Mr. Winslow did impossible and recreated complete genome of one of the most intriguing characters I ever came across in literature. Every note is played, every single nuance of his personality is there, as much as I could detect. All the expectations I could ever possibly have had is fulfilled. Well done, Mr. Winslow, well done. Any chance for the third book? What might come after Shibumi and Satori? Maybe, Nirvana or something? ...more
Books, any kind, don't get any better than this. It's both factual and fictional, although it's impossible to know what's what, of course. But isn't iBooks, any kind, don't get any better than this. It's both factual and fictional, although it's impossible to know what's what, of course. But isn't it quite similar even with bona fide documentaries? I'm crying a little inside, knowing I'm almost half way through with the series. And yet, I know I'll be coming back to it many times in the future. It's certainly complex enough it's almost inexhaustible in its scope, detail, and possibility that this reading through, you'll really going to grasp all that's happening. No, you want. Maybe next time....more
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