Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.
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25% complete! François has read 26 of 104 books.
Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he …
"Thanks to the new technology of imprinting, people in a near-future America can copy their …
This is a very interresting book. It starts as a roman noir, with the usual sleuth cliché, and then slowly turns into a science-fiction wiht a detour by some philosophy consideration. Very different from any other Brin I read so far, and therefore possibly the most interesting :-) Definitely recommended !!
"Thanks to the new technology of imprinting, people in a near-future America can copy their personalities into animated clay bodies …
Platero y yo es el libro más bello de la narrativa lírica contemporánea. Al leerlo …
Libro muy bien escrito en un español como ya no existe; libro viejo, claro, por lo cual se trata de una sociedad que ja no existe pero tambien probablemente por eso tiene este parfum de nostalgia... Disponible en Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9980
Platero y yo es el libro más bello de la narrativa lírica contemporánea. Al leerlo hoy, resulta clave y centro …
"The Jar" by Ray Bradbury is a short horror story about Charlie, a man who …
Nice little novel like Ray Bradbury knows how to do. Quite intriguing at the same time, and almost an horror story too...
"The Jar" by Ray Bradbury is a short horror story about Charlie, a man who buys a mysterious jar containing …
Extremely short story!!
Brace yourself for Frankie’s novel, he’s more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever.
There …
The book has 2 kinds of chapters: "diary", and "stand up". The problem with the "stand up" part is that I can't really read that. I mean it's one thing to hear somebody cracking lines after line on stage, but to read it is no fun (for me at least). There is also the fact that if you don't remember what was topical/on TV/the UK current events of 2010-2012, you'll probably miss the point, the pun or the fun of those jokes. So as much as I like him, this book is definitely not for me.
The book has 2 kinds of chapters: "diary", and "stand up". The problem with the "stand up" part is that I can't really read that. I mean it's one thing to hear somebody cracking lines after line on stage, but to read it is no fun (for me at least). There is also the fact that if you don't remember what was topical/on TV/the UK current events of 2010-2012, you'll probably miss the point, the pun or the fun of those jokes. So as much as I like him, this book is definitely not for me.
Brace yourself for Frankie’s novel, he’s more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever.
There are fears that this year …
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and …
Excellent book. Not exactly what I expected. There is a lot in this book, descriptions of Russian revolution, life in Moscow before WWII, but also a lot of sociology and philosophy. Definitely recommended.
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest …
Glasshouse is a science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006. …
Quite a lot in this book. Sociology, space opera (kindof). Sometimes a bit difficult to follow but all in all a nice read from @cstross@wandering.shop. Recommended.
Quite a lot in this book. Sociology, space opera (kindof). Sometimes a bit difficult to follow but all in all a nice read from @cstross@wandering.shop. Recommended.
Glasshouse is a science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006. In 2007, Glasshouse won the …
