As I got older, the prevalence of paradoxes behind a lot of situations in life became more apparent and I couldn’t help but feel they represented some sort of limit to the human brain’s ability to process certain types of information.

Rindasy is a Shai-Manak, a race of sorcerous, mysterious shapeshifters that inhabit a rainforest utopia on a previously unmapped floor. It's a wild and whimsical ride that feels like it has Doctor Who and maybe TTRPGs at its core, with a love of television and clever timey-wimey and parallel universe (para-welly-telly? A solid mass, approximately one hundred and two kilograms, landed at high speed on the roof,” the cloudlet replied.

she said, removing her headphones, glancing upward at the ceiling, seeing nothing out of the ordinary.

The worldbuilding is exciting and so original, and we have an ample cast of characters, that are both mythical and relatable, terrifying and hilarious, even if not always as intended. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery, and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the roller coasters are frequently safe, and if you don’t have a valid day pass, the automated defense lasers will escort you from being alive. Combine that with a less than satisfactory resolution to the novel - to me it seemed like the author stopped after the climax (and keep in mind The Giver, with it's ambiguous ending is one of my favorite books), I found the novel a less than gripping read. Drawing on a vast array of resources, including hundreds of interviews and a library of rare artifacts, from rave fanzines to online mailing-list archives, Matos reveals how EDM blossomed in tandem with the nascent Internet—message boards and chat lines connected partiers from town to town. Biography: With over seven million copies of his books in print, Christopher Hart is the world's leading author of art instruction books.There are quite complex sci-fi concepts used in this book, and their descriptions and explanations were a little muddled and confusing at times—to the point where multiple pages were simply taken up with long, unclear explanations. However, a reader who is a size 18 or a size 20 might (I'm saying 'might' because I don't know, but it just seems like a possibility) just see a personal attack to their size and it might make them feel uncomfortable and unhappy, and that's not the point of reading - even if you're reading something harrowing and heart-wrenching.

Which does make sense considering that in an infinite multiverse filled with shapeshifters and non-humanoids, a gender binary is not at all guaranteed. Many of these problems could be solved if the United States moved to a more unified parliamentary system of government, but so radical a change in the country’s institutional structure is inconceivable. Other than the obvious confusion, my main problem was that once I finally lost track of what was happening—I just didn’t care.Halfway through I didn't think there were any nice characters in this book however i do think that Lisa is a likable character, but thats pretty much it. One of the few sentients mad enough to defy the Association—and inhabiting a single floor as it is—the Shai-Manak have been at war with the Association for fifty years, a war that has more or less turned into a stalemate. Also I was kind of confused as to when it was set – feels more like the early 80s than the late 90s/early 00s – would a teenager in the later period really be listening to the Buzzcocks? In my opinion, there were too long of gaps between the sub-plot (the past) and the main plot, to the point where I would find myself forgetting what had happened previously in the present with our main character and had to go back and re-read things frequently to remember (which isn’t fun; it breaks up the reading experience in a bad way).