It plays his records, streams his music, works for 12 hours on a single charge and looks beautifully retro doing it.
#To sleep in a sea of stars amazon Bluetooth
Let him play his vinyl to his heart’s delight with the first portable, rechargeable, Bluetooth record player on the market. So dad is an audiophile of the old school. Top marks, it may not be entirely original but it sure is a fine book and worth every penny.Dad will appreciate the nostalgia. So I can see dark elements of a Neal Asher book populated with similar charming characters from the Expanse, cheeky references to Alien, an unfulfilled love story, plausible (enough) physics, a satisfying twist on some of Iain Banks imaginings on AI and ships (so often copied these days), even poetry and rousing speeches, Aliens with names we would actually give them (nice that) and driving it along, almost unnoticed is a fine narrative and intriguing plot. That's true but then what is perfection? It is surely subjective. It is, as the Author very humbly admits, not perfect.
#To sleep in a sea of stars amazon full
The book is comfortingly long, I like big books when I am enjoying the story and I didn't want this book to end which is why it achieves the full 5 stars, no questions asked. I can tell you that there is a very interesting and quite incredible story at the back about how this novel came kicking and screaming into existence. Ther's no plot spoliers here so don't worry Life is too short to waste reading stuff like this.
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Overall summary: starts quite well but degenerates into trite rubbish.
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All the soldiers are real tough guys, the 'kid' is a real wide eyed innocent, the hero doesn't seem to have any problems with just ignoring pain and injury, and look! -just when it looks like the end of the world has come, some of the mindlessly aggressive enemy aliens turn out to be a liberal rebel wing who actually like humans and want to help! The characterisation doesn't live up to any of its early promise either. The aliens are not particularly alien, more like monsters out of some YA horror story. Much of the plot is completely implausible, with sudden twists that just don't make any sense except that the author needed something to propel the story on. By the mid point I really began to lose hope. At the outset, it seemed a reasonably interesting space opera romp with some potentially engaging characters - though the main character's love story is a bit gushy, like something out of a trashy romantic novel. I don't often give up on a book, but I quit reading this one half-way through. I don't get how so many reviewers were so enthusiastic about this. I cannot comment on this, I didn't get that far, but if the attention to the science is the same as the attention to the writing then I can quite easily believe it.
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From other reviews I have read the science doesn't stand up that well either. I am no scholar but I have rarely been so aware of such poor writing in the many books I have consumed, it was such a distraction I had to 'throw in the towel'.
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Sentences and paragraphs should flow off the page through the mind of the reader without being read through twice because you cannot believe how badly formulated they are and thinking to yourself 'I would have constucted that differently'. When I read a book I assume that the author will look after such technical issues i.e they have the the basic writing skills and I,as the reader, can concentrate on the main story, characters and ideas. If you are not concerned about things likes sentence construction and grammar then read on. How did this get past the proof reader and the publisher? Was it proof read by a year four? I managed to get to page 55 and realised that this author hasn't a clue about sentence construction.