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Amazingly entertaining book. It's among the recent SF books that read like scripts for big Hollywood productions. I guess it shows what this generation of writers did when growing up. They use the language and images so many people in the Western world grew up with and consuming these books is extremely easy and a great pastime.

This is one of the cases where the movie is much better than the book. The movie is among the best SF movies of all time (so far), while the book is mediocre at best. Sagan was a great scientist, even visionary, but a great writer he was not. If you want to read Sagan, I'd recommend Pale Blue Dot.

A letdown, like most of his books. I have read four of them now, including Inferno. And except Angels & Demons, which I consider his magnum opus, all of them were mediocre at best. All of them pulp, of course, but pulp can still be entertaining.

Digital Fortress was awful. I guess it was for anyone familiar with cryptography and computers as painful as his Robert Langdon books must be for art historians. Just really, really bad. Da Vinci Code was OK, but the whole story just too over-the-top for me. Angels & Demons was amazing. Something about it just clicked with me and I love this book. That lead me to read Inferno and left me rather disappointed. I shouldn't complain, I guess, because it is a typical Dan Brown. It just didn't click, like A&D did.

A very good book by the author of the Vorkosigan saga. It's a fresh, new universe and Bujold does an excellent job of not explaining too much. The societal structure and, most importantly, the theology of this world are revealed throughout the entire book.

Theology and broken people are the focus of this book. The hero, Cazaril, is a broken man at the start of the book and through his ponderings we learn about the gods of this realm and the role they play in the society. Especially towards the end I felt the explanations were a bit vague, but this didn't hurt my overall impression of the book, which was very good.