Svetofon Studio Studio থেকে Irumpa, Kerala, India
I read this first in my early teens--a little young for the book in some ways, but I was so enraptured with the density of ideas, the sensawonda, and above all with young Ari that it became a firm favorite. I've read it a few times since then, and found myself, on my first reading in a decade or so, reading it with as much pleased nostalgia as pleasure in the book itself. The political manoeuvrings are positively Byzantine, some of the setup slightly unbelievable, and the ending rather aggravating (growlf! I'm glad I only re-read now that there's a sequel, as I've grown more sensitive to Unfinished Story as I get older), and it's still among the best SF novels out there.
I gave up on this book. It felt a bit dark and gloomy... not my kind of book. It was also hard for me to start caring about the characters.
faghat ye ghesmat az yeki az sherhashe ke ba'es shod ketab ro begiram : abri tanha mesle man faghat aseman ra delgir mikonad har che ghadr ham ke bozorg basham