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I'm really really liking this book. It goes back and forth between two vignettes, that I suspect will cross at some point, and they're both fascinating in their own way. One is definitely of the more "cozy" variety, whereas the other is much darker, and starts off with some heavy exploitation of a vulnerable group.

The worldbuilding here is incredible. I find myself re-reading little sentences that explain shades of the world. Never going into too much exposition, so that when some fact of the world is explained I'm like gimme gimme gimme nom nom nom!!!

Only my second Becky Chambers book, but I think I'm a fan for life. <3

Like all of these "Very short introduction" books it does what it says - provides a kind of thumbnail intro to what are actually very big topics.

As far as content, you're just as well off going to the "Capitalism" page of Wikipedia and just clicking around for a week. But the book does provide a good historical and geographic structure to the evolution of different capitalism(s), so in that respect it's kind of a perfect intro, and could spark some great conversations.

Actually if you've never read on the origins and alternatives to capitalism, this book might just blow your mind. Maybe a good book for the teenager, or dad, in your life who thinks they know everything already.

@kingrat@sfba.club Thank you for your service, and sharing your findings.

@LiterallyGraphic I feel you on the x/5 rating system. It's so limiting. So 1-dimensional. Actually, I think that's precisely what it is - just one dimension in a more nuanced, multidimensional (re)view, like you've written up here.

Just got it back from the library (third time now exchanging with the other person reading this copy). Embarrassingly, I found I had forgot my bookmark in there, but my anonymous reading partner I guess didn't mind leaving it in. <3

HYPE

@SallyStrange@bookwyrm.social I love the cover art! 👀

Would love to take a look under the hood.

@kamen@bookwyrm.social Ahh good context. I never know what to make of other people's 3/5 ratings. Actually, We probably have similar scales.

Speaking of personal rating scales, I've laid mine out in my profile - a practice I stole entirely from this person's profile on LibraryThing: www.librarything.com/profile/i.

@kamen@bookwyrm.social Cool jacket art, anyway!

Interleaving with Martian Chronicles chapters. :9

Heard some buzz about book #3, and just adding to my list before I spoil myself

@kamen@bookwyrm.social Not a fan, eh? I haven't gone deep into Dune yet, but I understand it gets weird pretty fast.

Reading Bradbury always makes me feel like writing. He writes like an overflowing bathtub.

Love the previous book so much.