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auntblh's review
2.0
I started this one but I gave up after about a 100 pages. I was hoping for more story about the discovery of Pluto but all I was getting was a lot of back story. I wasn't sure who these people were or how they would be part of the story. I found I didn't really care to stick around to find out. The writing style was off for me; there were times that I was pulled out of the story to re-read some sentences/paragraphs to try to figure out what was being said. I really wanted to like this but was disappointed instead.
runkefer's review
4.0
Really enjoyed this fictional account of the discovery of Pluto. Richly-drawn characters in pursuit of chimerical goals, burdened by their eccentricities and society's judgement of them, all come together in the Arizona desert.
janessat's review
2.0
This book was a huge disappointment. It took until half way through to tie together the random stories and had hardly any of the science I was hoping for when I checked it out. There's so much melodrama, exacerbated by the audio book reader's flair for the dramatic. Would not recommend.
doubleinfinity's review
2.0
J: This book became reeaaallly hard to care about.
also the author doesn't write any non-straight male character well.
also the author doesn't write any non-straight male character well.
diana_reads_and_reads's review
4.0
This was a slow read, but not a bad one. There were a lot of weird side stories going on, at least one of which I don’t really know how it connected to the main tale. But it was a worthwhile, interesting read for the most part. It was on track to be a five star read until about the last 100 pages. The way some of the side stories were wrapped up was just…odd. I really enjoyed Byers’ writing style. Going back to read other goodreads reviews, it looks like people either love or hate this one.
I’m looking forward to reading How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming as a nonfiction pairing to this book. Definitely some of the doubts about Pluto are planted in Percival’s Planet.
I’m looking forward to reading How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming as a nonfiction pairing to this book. Definitely some of the doubts about Pluto are planted in Percival’s Planet.
a_l_deleon's review
3.0
Difficult to follow until about halfway through, Percival's Planet wasn't what I expected. I did learn some things of the history on how Pluto came to be discovered, but I didn't feel the story tugged at me. The author's strongest writing was in the dialogue, so I may visit other works by him to see how well he does with other novels, but this one fell short of the mark for me.
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