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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In this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to The Atrocity Archives (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, …
Read this book. It has the BEST DEFINITION of powerpoint ever. I rest my case @cstross@wandering.shop
Read this book. It has the BEST DEFINITION of powerpoint ever. I rest my case @cstross@wandering.shop
Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up …
Very interesting and entertaining book. It is difficult to describe without spoiling the plot so I won't but I found it quite funny, and definitely looking forward to the #2 of the series from @cstross@wandering.shop
Very interesting and entertaining book. It is difficult to describe without spoiling the plot so I won't but I found it quite funny, and definitely looking forward to the #2 of the series from @cstross@wandering.shop
"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 !!
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
"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...
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.
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.
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.
Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady …
Very good. Loads of plots twists and nice window into icelandic life.. recommended !
Four friends visit the island. But only three return....Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is sent to …
Nice thriller with a good plotwist at the end.
As usual, nice stories interthwined... :-)
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. …
This is a strange book. I don't know exactly what to make of it. Space cowboy ? anticipation ? partly philosophy ? see for yourselves...
This is a strange book. I don't know exactly what to make of it. Space cowboy ? anticipation ? partly philosophy ? see for yourselves...
"The Crystal Spheres" is a science fiction short story by American writer David Brin, originally …
nice little short story :-)
The River of Time brings together eleven of David Brin's finest shorter works, including 'The …
Collection of short stories commented by the author. As usual in this type of book, some are better than the others :-)