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It was better than the first book; more engaging, more coherent, less world building for those who haven't listened to the podcast. The narration quality is still kind of meh - it makes the great strides forward, only to stumble and grope helplessly for something to rely on.
Here's to hope that book number three will be even better.
Don't get me wrong - it's not bad. The fact whether you'll like it heavily depends on how familiar you are with fiction that deals with redefining what's reality and what's fiction. If you're new to the topic, you might find this piece fresh and full of brilliant ideas. If you've crunched through similar books already (eg. novels and stories by Philip K. Dick), you'll definitely see this manga as more formulaic.
It's still good. :)
As much as I like Night Vale, this book was less enjoyable than I had wanted. It is supposed to be accessible for people who don't know anything about Night Vale series. As a result, it spends way too long on setting up the premise - the small injokes, the places, the characters, the bizarre rules of the universe. And without Cecil's voice, it falls bit flat. On the other hand, once it's done setting up, it gets going quite well, with a relatable story worthy of a minor NV episode. So all in all - it might be a better novel for people who have not heard of Night Vale before. I just wonder if it does the trick for them :)
Very decent read, although I was disappointed at its selectivity. It makes an excellent overview of first 30 or so years of nuclear research, only to quickly wrap up with obligatory Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. I was hoping for at least few words about Kyshtym. The stories that did make into the book are well written, bit colorised, but not too much. In other words, it's a good overview of the topic, with the only proviso that you might already know most of it, if you're interested in the topic.
It's pointless to read this book unless you're a fan of Known Space. About 70% of this book is written as an alternative perspective of events from Crashlander and The Soft Weapon. It'll probably be very hard to understand the events, if you haven't read the previous stories. If you did, and if you like Known Space, you'll most likely be delighted. It introduces new ideas and threads, stitching together episodes functioning previously more or less independently.
Disclaimer: it'd be an overstatement to call myself a beginner runner.
I found this book concise and straight to the point introduction about inner workings of your body while running. Hard for me to judge right now whether the advice in this book is useful, but I've enjoyed the form and substance of it.
Po Imperium sięgnąłem po ponownym przeczytaniu Opuścić Los Raques, wiedziony ciekawością odnośnie tego co jeszcze Maciej Żerdziński wymyślił. Szybko zorientowałem się że część z opowiadań z tego zbiorku już czytałem w “Fantastyce”. Dzięki przeczytaniu tych opowiadań pod rząd, łatwiej było wyłapać elementy wspólne.Nie zdradzając żadnych detali fabuły; bardzo ładne uniwersum. Sposób przedstawiania świata, prowadzenia fabuły i imiona przywodziły mi na myśl opowiadania Philipa K. Dicka - wydaje mi się że tak PKD by pisał, gdyby był zdrowy.Bardzo miła podróż, szkoda tylko że nie ma więcej - fragment powieści na końcu zbiorku wygląda bardzo obiecująco.
I'm not a big fan of criminal stories - I think the only criminal novels that I've read were those written by Joanna Chmielewska, and I've read them primarily for the humour, and not the mystery. I've decided to read this book as a result of it popping up in search results for ‘and then there were none', for which phrase I've searched in a completely different context. The story of the title got my attention.The story isn't particularly gripping, but the writing had something intriguing. Plus - probably - a number of other things I've watched and read based its concept on the template established by this book. All in all, good fun.
UWAGA dla posiadaczy kotów: omińcie opowiadanie “Kwiat paproci”, zaoszczędzicie sobie nieprzyjemnych opisów bez utraty niczego wartościowego :o
Niestety, poniżej średniej. Część z opowiadań w tym zbiorze jest kiepsko napisana, nieinteresująca lub też zupełnie bezcelowa. Osobliwie chyba najlepiej wypadł ten youtube na papierze, pomimo stylizacji. “Spójrz mi w oczy” miało bardzo dobry pomysł, ale sama historia potoczyła się dokładnie donikąd.
Beautiful artbook, but the quality of included backstory could be better. Artbooks are usually source of interesting tidbits and lore; in case of TF2 there isn't really that much stuff to feast on, other than visuals. Don't get me wrong, it's worth reading as it's gorgeous, but I was hoping for gleaming some more information from it.
It didn't quite blew me out of the water. Perhaps my expectations were too hyped. Having said so - I've enjoyed this a lot. It was a narrowed down, laser-focused slice of The Illuminatus! trilogy. Much more feverish in style, but still coherent, thanks to sticking to one particular topic and story line. Enjoyable, just... not as impressive as Illuminatus. Maybe it'd be different if the reading order was reversed for me?
