Into queer scifi fantasy tragicomical fiction with complex and not classically happy endings. Uhm, or something like that.
Sometimes I can read books, sometimes I can't. So I read a lot while I can.
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In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and …
Not a “self-help” book, it is a call to action. There were some pretty good ideas in there, and helpful references/anecdotes.
Preceded by: The Name of the Wind
In The Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe searches for …
Pretty similar to the first book (but in a good way)
The Name of the Wind, also referred to as The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One, is …
Well written, funny sometimes, like someone telling a story at a fireplace. Felt cozy to me.
Contains a few not-so-constructive patterns (like "I need to make my heart of stone to control emotions"), but for me it was Ok, definitely better than in "Consider Phlebas".
he Star Diaries is a series of short stories of the adventures of space traveller …
Some stories felt like the black mirror museum episode, some are a bit boring. (And Ijon can be annoying. He gets angry quickly.) I read it in German, maybe some chapters are funnier in Polish?
Exciting, feels realistic, war strategy, a lot of innuendo (and smugness? — everyone feels very clever). Passages of feeling powerful, passages of feeling completely powerless. I would recommend it with a content warning: "Cruel and depressing".
Consider Phlebas is perhaps one of the lesser-known, but nevertheless the first, of the revelationary …
I guess I expected more… There’s one chapter (the eaters) that you can just skip completly imo. There’s been several times when I just wanted to stop reading (the eater-chapter and gendered stereotypes that continue to exist unchanged in the far future…), but I kept going for some reason and have not been rewarded.
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (published 1950) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. …
Most of this book is exciting 18th/19th century sailing mechanics with wind strategy, and trying to capture the other ship without destroying it (I enjoyed it!). The cast is (almost) only men. And there are frequent commentaries on how badly organized the other navies/armies are, in comparison to the English ones.
The prose is not the best one I’ve ever read, but it’s easy to read and the chapters are independent episodes, which makes it a good snack.
"Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark upon an extraordinary journey. …
I think this book provides an optimistic utopian-kind of outlook on the future. I enjoyed reading it, it was a form of feel-good escapism.