Ein wunderbarer erster Einblick in die Welt von Avalon. Ich kann die ganze Serie nur empfehlen, auch als Einstieg in das mystisch-historische Subgenre von Phantasy.
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DE/EN*; lots of fanfiction, some books and sheet music.
Experimenting with Bookwyrm, to get away from Goodreads and a manually kept text file with things I read.
I mostly keep to the Goodreads rating scale (2 = it was okay, 3 = I liked it, 4 = I really liked it, 5 = top), where I also hand out a 2/3 for a 1/2 when my reason to dislike is more personal than caused by the book. Bad spelling tends to get a downgrade.
*) and bits of Latin, NL, ES, …
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mirabilos reviewed Die Nebel von Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Mists of Avalon is a 1983 historical fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer …
Review of 'Die Nebel von Avalon' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
mirabilos rated Die drei ??? und der giftige Gockel: 3 stars
mirabilos rated Das Zentralgehirn: 3 stars
mirabilos rated Hunter x Hunter 02. Best of BANZAI.: 5 stars
mirabilos reviewed Life Hacks by Keith Bradford
Review of 'Life Hacks' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Some of these are crazy, outright dangerous, true but list the wrong causes, true but list the wrong thing they help with… but overall I had a few good laughs.
It concentrates too much on being a literal American translation and does not translate meaning, for example, its recipes use “cups” as a unit of measuring. Also, way too much Oreo and Apple fanboying.
Some lectoring (found a couple of misspellings and wrong hyphenation for German) would also not have gone amiss.
mirabilos reviewed All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome by Kathy Hoopmann
Review of 'All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Wonderful! A new look at “myself-as-a-cat-like-being” and “myself-as-someone-somewhere-on-the-asperger-autism-scale” for everyone who is either. Everyone else can still enjoy the cute and oftentimes funny cat pictures (while possibly assimilating some of the informative content).
mirabilos reviewed Das schwarze Haus. by Stephen King
Review of 'Das schwarze Haus.' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Enttäuschend, und definitiv kein Muß für Leser des „Talisman“s.
Disappointing, and definitely not a “must” for readers of the “Talisman”.
mirabilos reviewed Professional assembly language by Richard Blum
Unlike high-level languages such as Java and C++, assembly language is much closer to the …
Review of 'Professional assembly language' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
The assembly introduction is rudimentary, omitting detailled (and, in the case of the optimisation chapter, even important) information, nor does it really help actually using the tools (such as gdb) beyond a synopsis (which is short enough to be completely useless in practice). It also endorses and uses AT&T syntax, which is a no-go for i386 (and some other) architectures.
If I remembered who recommended it to me, I’d enlighten them otherwise…
Es by Stephen King
"It" is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. "It" was his 22nd book …
mirabilos rated Mach's gut, und danke für den Fisch: 3 stars
Mach's gut, und danke für den Fisch by Douglas Adams
Preceded by: [Life, the Universe and Everything][1]
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of …
mirabilos rated Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest: 3 stars
Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy …
In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves …
Review of "Einmal Rupert und zurück. Der fünfte 'Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis' - Roman." on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Der fünfte Band der vierbändigen Trilogie… ’nuff said ☺
mirabilos rated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 3 stars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams ...
On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever …
mirabilos rated Die Farben der Magie (Scheibenwelt, #1): 5 stars
Die Farben der Magie (Scheibenwelt, #1) by Terry Pratchett
The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the …