Reviews and Comments

Some interesting ideas here, but the book is pretty scattershot overall. The real takeaway is "try things and keep good enough records to measure if they work".

I was a bit disappointed by this. Perhaps I'd hoped for too much from a classic of the genre. There was some good swashbuckling, but the motivations of the main characters rang hollow to me.

Too heavy on the kids, for my taste.

A solid Culture novel. Less subtle than some.

After the Orphan's Tales, I had high hopes. This lacks the familiar feeling of those books. It's also weirdly protagonist-less. The main characters don't seem to have goals or much will of their own.

Great setting. Good characters. Solid plot.

There are a lot of amusing anecdotes in this, but I wish it had been about half as long.

For a book that's ostensibly about travel, it's pretty amazing how little travel is in it.

Fun to read while on an 81 day trip around the world, though...

Interesting multiple-perspective piece.

Fascinating premise: two cities, occupying the same physical space, separated only by the willful "unseeing" by their respective inhabitants. The mystery story plot didn't really appeal to me, though.

Entertaining swashbuckling adventure. Archetypical good-man-forced-to-piracy story. Good for reading while sitting six feet from the Caribbean.