The Long Earth (udgave 2012)

I definitely enjoyed reading the book, especially the parts that explored differing evolutionary paths. But if you're like me and get annoyed with every book being part of a 50 book series, you may not want to pick this one up, as very little is wrapped up at the end. If you're ok with that then go for it, though, because it was still worth the read. ( )

I make absolutely no excuses for not finishing this book. Any book that's this boring after more than 100 pages deserves all it gets. The characters are very forgetable and I find I have no interest in finding out what they will get up to at any point in the future. If this is the first in a series of books about the long earth, it's no excuse to claim that maybe we should give it a chance and wait for the next one to see If things improve. If a novel hasn't grabbed me by the time I'm 25% or more into it then I'm very much afraid it simply isn't going to and the authors should be grateful I gave it that much of a chance before casting it aside.

Not good. It's tedious, the characters are bland and uninteresting, and quite frankly, endless worlds with no people in them was never going to make for a good story in my view. This is a book that should never have made it past the starting post. ( )

I just finished this on Audible and started volume II. I recently read Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles which was about another great recession (a greater recession). This book has some parallels, economically speaking, with today. The Long Earth reduces the labor supply on the Datum. W/diminishing resources, we likely have reduced supply and likely a low if not negative global growth. I am sure there are radical economic theories based on contracting supply and demand being the source of demise for a capitalist system, but one doesn't have to be a skeptic of the system to realize that it works best with positive economic growth if not numbers usually larger than the numbers we see today. This book, like The Mandibles, will suggests negative numbers and as such gives us a hint of what life might in an era of stagnation. I like how they use older computers. Newer technology, which today we adopt ever faster (my smart phones keep getting smarter!), may lose out to an older system that were stable and mature and wouldn't depend on modifications. I imagine a flip phone relying on 2nd generation tech would last into this sort of uncertain future better than a 4G LTE of today. I find that kind of cool. Forget FB, does anyone still use IRC Chat? ( )

Wow! ( )

Full review can be found here:

https://nordie.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/book-review-death-on-the-cherwell-by-mav...