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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31% complete! François has read 33 of 104 books.
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% …
« Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l'intelligence, et même le …
Livre intéressant et bizarre à la fois, mais que je trouve bien écrit, même si vers la fin je trouve que l'auteur n'est plus à la hauteur de ses promesses. Vaut le détour :-)
Livre intéressant et bizarre à la fois, mais que je trouve bien écrit, même si vers la fin je trouve que l'auteur n'est plus à la hauteur de ses promesses. Vaut le détour :-)
Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to …
Same comment as for infinity shore: lots of totally unnecessary repetition. Not as many, but still. It is too bad because it spoils it - for me at least.
« Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l'intelligence, et même le génie, c'est l'incompréhension. » En …
Sale Gosse (titre original : Bad Little Kid) est une nouvelle de Stephen King publiée …
Très court et un peu prévisible. Mais c'est du Stephen King, donc c'est bon :-)
Très court et un peu prévisible. Mais c'est du Stephen King, donc c'est bon :-)
Sale Gosse (titre original : Bad Little Kid) est une nouvelle de Stephen King publiée initialement le 14 mars 2014 …
Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his …
For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As …
Disappointing. The story is still quite inventive, but for some reasons, there are dozen of repetitions, as if the author was paid by the line. I have seen this before, but that was i 19th centuries stories where the book started its life as a series in a newspaper or a magazine, hence the need to remind the reader of what had happened. Here is seems the author is paid by the line, because there is no reason to remind me what happened 5 pages ago by inserting a reminder/repetition that doesn't add anything to the story. The constant reminders are useless. They use loads of pages for nothing, as if I needed to be reminded of what happened in the previous chapter, or if the author was paid by the line. Or maybe the word ? By there are loads of repetitions. And they are boring, because they add …
Disappointing. The story is still quite inventive, but for some reasons, there are dozen of repetitions, as if the author was paid by the line. I have seen this before, but that was i 19th centuries stories where the book started its life as a series in a newspaper or a magazine, hence the need to remind the reader of what had happened. Here is seems the author is paid by the line, because there is no reason to remind me what happened 5 pages ago by inserting a reminder/repetition that doesn't add anything to the story. The constant reminders are useless. They use loads of pages for nothing, as if I needed to be reminded of what happened in the previous chapter, or if the author was paid by the line. Or maybe the word ? By there are loads of repetitions. And they are boring, because they add nothing to the plot. They just waste place. and paper, and space, and my patience. Almost as if the author got paid more for repeating what he already said. Otherwise not a bad book. Did I mention the repetitions ? Tiring.
Este libro reúne —escogidos por el propio Camba— los mejores escritos del genial columnista gallego; un volumen que contiene la …
For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the …
The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five …
Totally different from the previous ones, even if there are recurring themes. It is only at the end that the link is made with vol2/3 of the original uplift. Conceived from the start as a saga spanning on several books, don't read this if you don't have the following volume handy :-)
Totally different from the previous ones, even if there are recurring themes. It is only at the end that the link is made with vol2/3 of the original uplift. Conceived from the start as a saga spanning on several books, don't read this if you don't have the following volume handy :-)
The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. But over the centuries …
A car accident leaves Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect in the midst of concealing his …
As often with Ballard, this is a tale of alienation, of what can happen when your world suddenly crashes around you.
A car accident leaves Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect in the midst of concealing his affair with a colleague, stranded …
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. …
Interresting. Not exactly a follow-up to previous, but many references so it helps to have read it, but not necessary. Exploring yet another branch of the uplift world. Nice read.
