Erik Asphaug

A well-known author stated that the best way to capture the audience's attention, whether simply to make something interesting or to impart information, is to tell a good story. Unfortunately, the author of this book entirely fails in that regard.

While this work is certainly chock full of information, many times it reads more like an encyclopedia than a book. There is no narrative flow. Often just a litany of facts or theory followed by the inevitable metaphor.

Although I am a fan of show more planetary science, and had high hopes, I was disappointed with this work. Not recommended. show less

This is an interesting book and concept and well written. I like Erik Asphaug's written-voice in this, and I think he comes off very well. I really wanted to give this 4 stars, but just felt it was more 3/3.5, so I left it here.

Its all interesting, and there is a lot of facts, a lot of knowledge, information, etc. At times it gets a bit bogged down, and its also quite a bit circular. This also took me forever to get through, during a pandemic (which this is a multifacted aspect, and has more show more to do with me than the book). The pictures in the book are good and help.

But I just feel there is 'something' (not quite sure what) lacking from this. Maybe a tighter read, maybe some things cut, maybe a bit more about their thesis and his work. I enjoyed this, wish there was a bit more to it I suppose. show less

Fascinating subject, but an incoherent disjointed mess of a book, jumping haphazardly from topic to topic every couple of pages with no logical link tying it together into a cohesive narrative.