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I've read Blindsight twice (with it being my favourite sci fi book) but couldn't even finish Echopraxia.

The book is littered with verbose and it's a mission just to even follow Watts' description of the environment. The plot was promising but not interesting enough to carry the poor writing.

wallfacer9000's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

craftysilicate's review against another edition

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slow-paced

2.0

If nothing else, I've determined that the things that bothered me in the first book came from the author rather than the narrator, so I guess there's that.

meatthins's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This would be a five if they'd wrapped up Rakshi and Jim's respective storylines a bit better. Jim will probably be in book three though so w/e

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4.0

Moved to gwern.net.

sevencrane's review against another edition

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3.0

kinda cool, more somewhat interesting ideas. unfortunately it has Agency Syndrome where the narrator is shuffled from place to place by The Scrappy Resistance, kept in the dark while The Shadowy Enemy hunts them at every turn and the narrator doesn't make any meaningful choices (until the very end, but by then it was too late). Ursula K le guin did make a good point that a story can be about discovery or movement, but at least let us discover things instead of keeping the narrator in the dark the entire time or having there be a purpose to the movement

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