Worst audio book ever.

boring story. uninspired. riding the interesting climate topic cash grab money train. man this is just a very bad and boring story. did not finish. will never get those 10 hours back. chapter 63 was the boring stuff that broke me. i force myself onward because a friend recommended it. learned later that he had heard of it and not heard it. so bad. wish i could get my money and those 10 hours back. the plot is like in bad video games. where the characters tell you why they do something and what they think in the beginning of the story. sooooooo bad. BTW climate change is real and a big problem, but man this is a bad book.

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Poorly read

Next time you prepare a book with much German vocabulary, get it checked before you release it. The mispronunciation of nearly every German word was annoying. Likewise, the Irish touch to the Indian dialect was not really amusing. Why not just read the book?

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Lacking

Longwinded, disjointed, and preachy, with a protagonist thats boring and one-dimensional, TMftF contains some good ideas of how humanity might tread the path to a more symbiotic relationship with the planet's ecosphere, but being as steeped in ideology as it is, it is overly convinced that it knows precisely what that path will / should look like, which subsequently robs it of any real depth.

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Many interesting views on our future and a lot to think about after every chapter!

Something very different! Every chapter is unique in a way, the style of writing different for each chapter. You get lots of interesting points of view from very different people on the climate crisis, actual problems and how people could deal with them now and in the future. Although sometimes hard to follow, especially if English isn’t your native language, but the different voices for each character or ‚chapter theme‘ helps to follow along. At first I found it to be a little bit depressing/frightening (our earth currently dying because of climate change), but the book does propose many ways of improvement, changes being done and seeing the results in the end!

Painfully boring and terrible accents

Worst audio book i heard so far, and the first time i feel the need to write a comment here.

Although the theme/topic (climate change) in general is "up to date", the story itself falls flat. It starts "OK", but after 1/3 of the book i lost interest in any of the characters and the last 4-5 hours were just painfully boring and without any arc of suspense.

But for me, the worst part of this production was the reading and all these forced accents. Why do you need to fake 50+ accents? Just tell me once this person is from india/irland/china/russia/etc. and i get it. No need for cliché accents. It annoyed me from start to end.
Instead of putting so much effort in accents, it might have been better to learn the correct pronunciation of at least some of these german words/names...

Can't recommend it. Sorry.

An unusual book. A pleasant change of pace

The ending drags out, but it’s a very touching and imaginative book for the first 90%.

A sort of “a day in the life of” but stretched over 30+ years.

Inspiring, depressing and hopeful, a cocktail of feelings fitting our time

Our world in the future with us cutting it very close with the climate catastrophe. Told from multiple perspectives.
The only real complaint I have is the pronounciation of German words since they are often impossible to understand as a native. Would therefore have preferred to read it.

Near future sci-fi on societal change caused by climate change

The story has many similarities to the Mars trilogy of KSR, however a somewhat worse image of the future without exploring the universe, only trying to solve climate change using politics and societal change.

The first half I found rather convincing, but when it went further into the future and communism became a core topic it often seemed less plausible.

did not quite speak to me

I did not quite see the red string holding it all together. a ramshackle list of things happening. dunno.

Truly inspiring

The "best" visions of the future I have encountered. You can't change the world for the better if you can't imagine a better world!