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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
challenging
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Even better than Stories of Your Life and Others.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book made me think so much.
I really liked this collection of stories. There were so many philosophical and theological questions presented for the reader, and each of them were played out in the stories to generate even more questions to haunt me later. My two favorites were Exhalation and Omphalos. Both stories struck at the heart of the inquiry into purpose. Why do we exist? Even, how do we exist? Both stories bring the answer about as a sense of faith: either in a higher (religious) authority or as faith in oneself - to understand that life or existence is about the experience and the searching, the journey rather than any sort of absolute or concrete answer. I think I took the question of ‘Why?’ and decided for myself that the answer might as well be ‘Why not!’
Yeah Ted Chiang does it again. Wasn't obsessed with all of them, but some proper banging sci-fi in here as well as new existential crisis material for the shower. Very cool :)
challenging
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Not as spectacular as I had hoped/expected, but definitely a beautiful reflection on morality, technology, and free will. There was something refreshing about the simplicity of language - maybe this is coming from me, finally freed from four years of undergrad. Loved the first and last stories the most. Not sure what that says about how I feel about reflections on free will..
Content warning for some really uncomfortable ableism in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" and "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"
Not as spectacular as I had hoped/expected, but definitely a beautiful reflection on morality, technology, and free will. There was something refreshing about the simplicity of language - maybe this is coming from me, finally freed from four years of undergrad. Loved the first and last stories the most. Not sure what that says about how I feel about reflections on free will..
Content warning for some really uncomfortable ableism in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" and "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Merchant and alchemists gate 3.5/5
Exhalation 3/5
What’s expected of us 4/5
The lifecycle of software objects 4/5
Daceys patent automatic nanny 1/5
The truth of fact, the truth of feeling 5/5
The great silence 2.5/5
Omphalos 3/5
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom 4/5
challenging
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
medium-paced