October 2021 Reading Wrap-Up | Part 1

But there needed to be more information and less repetition in this book and in book 12. And it's like it just got it got stretched very thin and maybe it should have been one book instead of split into two or something.

So, it was worth reading the whole collection just for those pieces even if I couldn't really appreciate the finer geeky details of some of the other essays. I would also say that this is a collection that's really worth getting the audiobook of because the authors have narrated themselves and it is fantastic hearing it in their voices.

It just it was not a good premise. It was not established well. There was a zero character development.

And it was all right. I have enjoyed previous books a lot more than this one. It was definitely this kind of saggy middle book that didn't have a satisfying ending and that was really unusual.

I actually really liked this and there were some bits of this that kind of went over my head cuz he gets actually pretty deep into the weeds of some of his ideas and how that all works with concepts in physics that are pretty difficult to understand I guess. So, I enjoyed the gist of what he was talking about a lot even if some of the information just didn't quite compute in my head.

This is just really excellent reading and I found it to be a great mix of educational and informative and inspirational but also lessons and warnings. So, would highly recommend this.

And it wasn't bad. I just was really surprised that after I finished it nothing about this collection stuck out to me. In fact I felt like a lot of the stories just mushed together in my head.

The my problem with this is that I just found the two main characters the love interest to be really bland. I could not tell you anything about Lawrence except that he secretly likes art but it just spends most of the book castigating himself for whatever and Chloe like her thing is that she is the invisible sibling.

And that's what I really enjoyed about this is it seemed more driven by the history and the series of innovations and how that drove progress in many other areas in civilization as well. So the focus of this really is textiles as a bedrock if not the bedrock of civilizations and economies and cultures and I found it really interesting.

And while that one was good and interesting it was mostly organized in terms of different types of textiles like linen, wool, silk and mostly dove into like the one country or civilization that is most highly associated with that type of textile.

I think the outsider's perspective on it kind of made it work a bit better. I really enjoyed it. I did not expect that ending though.

I have read other comics that do a very similar thing like Trillium by Jeff Lemire and I didn't like that one either.

This is basically like a noir thriller set in I think it's like late 1960s early 1970s Mexico but I think it's set in Monterey, Mexico and I did not like this one because I did not like one of the main characters. I really hated her and I found most of the plot and like the real historical context that the story was dealing with just it wasn't really interesting to me.