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This was actually the first book I voluntarily read in English, after having read the www.goodreads.com/book/show/1883238.Die_Nebel_von_Avalon German version (my native language). The author uses a very Germanic English, which immensively helped me at first picking things up, and I enjoyed it immensely, despite having to look up tons of words in a dictionary going along it.

Reading a book I’ve previously enjoyed, in the language the author thought of it, is a rewarding experience. (I’ve later also had cases where the translators did such a good job in not just translating but localising, and then even researching more and adding detail, that it was better than the original, but this is not the case here, the book is enjoyable in either language.)

Daß das Buch vor den „Nebeln“ spielt verwirrte mich anfänglich ein wenig, dennoch kann ich die ganze Serie nur empfehlen.

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.

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).

Enttäuschend, und definitiv kein Muß für Leser des „Talisman“s.

Disappointing, and definitely not a “must” for readers of the “Talisman”.

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…

Der fünfte Band der vierbändigen Trilogie… ’nuff said ☺