My preciooooouuus. I've wanted to buy this for a year or so and finally I couldn't resist any longer.
My preciooooouuus. I've wanted to buy this for a year or so and finally I couldn't resist any longer.
pickZwischendurch hab ich etwas mit mir gehadert. Es ging stark in eine Richtung, die jetzt nicht ganz meinem Geschmack entspricht (aber nicht per se schlecht ist), aber letztlich war es eine unterhaltsame Miniserie. Nur fängt der für mich spannende Teil am Ende des Buches gerade erst richtig an. Also gern mehr davon.
so-soI dislike that this is an ongoing series of non-episodic narration style. Meaning, I had all of the Year Five Comics up to this one in a bundle - but the series isn‘t over and therefore I don‘t know how it ends. We‘re still right in the middle of a plot. Annoying.
Other problems I have with this series are Kirk‘s constant whining. Only one year of mission left and he acts like it‘s the last week.
Pro: Non-binary character + Sulu snogging them
Finally starting with Hunger Games #1
Interesting how different book Katniss is from movie Katniss. Way more realistic, less heroic. I like both, though.
so-soIhr schwächstes Buch, da oft wiederholend und beinahe belanglos. Dank des dennoch immer lesbaren Stils, der Frau Freitag eben eigen ist, immer noch ein 3/5 Sterne-Buch.
Also ich weiß nicht. Der Protagonist ist ziemlich unsympathisch, die Protagonistin wirkt hölzern, das Setting folgt Regeln, die einem auch nach 60% des Buches noch nicht erklärt wurden, ... irgendwie ist das Buch zu prätentiös in Wort und Dialog und zu belanglos in der Handlung.
Hey guys. So the year is (almost) over and once again I am annoyed of how few statistics Goodreads shows us for the year. So can anyone recommend an app (preferably for free or cheap) that can give yearly statistics off what author you read most, what publisher you read most, median of year published, what genre you read most, ... with diagrams and stuff? Or do I have to start using Excel or Stata?
#Followerpower
#myyearinbooks
#2017
panToo boring, too much canon divergence. Also plainly stupid parts. Why would Spock have to give a speech he would not believe in? And why would he have to leave Starfleet just because Vulcan leaves the Federation? Even back at that time people could still be citizens of one country and work in a completely different region of the earth, even during struggles between the two countries. If you write about Vulcans, write logically!
Why does everyone love this book? I‘m only on page 60 and already thinking about quitting. It‘s so out of character and not even canon compliant. 😢
panAlthough he had 3 separate plots in just 190 pages, Dvorkin still managed to get me bored quickly. I did not care how it ended and only finished it to have it checked off my list. It was Star Trek-y, just not interesting at all.
so-soNot much Trek and the characters behave too much in a Kelvinline way for my liking. Kirk is a jerk in this.
But if you ignore that it's supposed to be Star Trek and that it mostly seems like an espionage political thriller, the story is not so bad. Not my kind of genre, but good writing, never boring.
And I like the way they pictured Lady Amanda and Sarek.
panBeautiful beginning turned into almost 200 pages of boredom. Plus WW II memories. Two people who only talk about their dads and nothing more, without real character development or actual plot.
panI wanted to bail. So badly. It started of great with a malfunctioning computer that seemed to have developed a personality of it's own. But instead of working with that, Ford just dropped this great idea to drag the reader into 200 pages of nonsense, based upon faults in his logic when it comes to the book's setting.
The worst Star Trek novel I ever read so far.
Next read. German translation by one of our best selling authors: Andreas Brandhorst.
#letstalkaboutbooksbaby
1. Brunswick, Germany
2. Hidden Universe Travel Guide: Star Trek - Vulcan
3. I don't have a particular order of reading them
4. Animals of the Farthing Wood
5. Mara und der Feuerbringer (Mara and the Fire Bringer)
6. Ghostsitter #5 - great series!
panCharacters one could not relate to - they seem kinda stupid -, no rules of logic whatsoever and a world like Wonderland, plus descriptions of everything important and unimportant. Really boring and just absurd.
Trying to kill undead monsters with gas? Bit illogical.
Left: Book 1 finished
Right: On to book 2
#24in48
Oh, come on. You say breasts like Susan Sarandon's would be the perfect size for you and think about when you saw them. But you don't mention Rocky Horror?! I mean, duh! Sure, only in a bra, but visible breasts nonetheless.
"About 9 out of 10 apprentices transform into a human grilled chicken when they first try to use magic. And death is a line even magic can't cross." - "How did you know that I would not die trying?" - "I didn't."
(Sorry. I just kinda love my own quote. The rest of my novel still sucks, but I love that dialogue. - It's better in German though.)
#asidefrombooks
Fav hobby: writing
Fav drink: Chocolate cappuccino
Fav food: Pasta
Fav colour: 🖤
Fav City: London
Where would my dream house be: Scottish Highlands, far away from other people
Fav accessory: none
Fav TV show: Star Trek TOS
Last movie watched in theatres: Mara und der Feuerbringer (German YA Fantasy, with FX by the same guy who made the Balroc. Plus Billy Boyd cameo!)
Cur. reading: Momo, Tears of the singers, Anna Karenina
There's a karaoke bar in ShiKahr! 🤣 #startrek
This point should be added in all travel guides. If you think about how often London was (partly) destroyed...? (Harry Potter, Doctor Who, ...)
Ah, that's how Spock recognized the songs of humpbacks. He had encountered species singing like them earlier. Quite interesting. I'd have loved if there had been some meta about the link between the book and the later movie. Or something like 'That must be the reason why those species sound similar, Captain. This probe seems to communicate with all of them over a great distance.'
Still very interesting.
I forgot that I had not yet signed up for @24in48 - now I finally did it. Not many international prizes this time, but who cares? It's the fun that matters.
#bookishwouldyourather @Kalalalatja
1. Break it. It hurts my heart a bit, but heavy, huge paperbacks are extremely hard to read without breaking the spine.
2. Tea. I prefer coffee, but my circulation doesn't like it that much.
3. Fantasy! Urban or futuristic. I need water toilets!
4. Morning. It's what I mostly do.
5. Author. Bookstores are close to being extinct. And my novel is 50% written by now.
Loving it. It's like listening to an AU version of Gilmore Girls in which Lore becomes an actress.
Spock watching magic tricks and almost ruining the show. Young Spock is such a cutie. ~35 years old and still acting like a curious child that can't keep its mouth shut in inappropriate situations.
Finally have them. Printed and in German. I only read them in English, one book a month as I have no kindle subscription and that is the one book that comes for free if you own the device. But I really wanted to OWN they, as they are too great not to reread them over and over again.
@TheBookDream That's the one I was talking about. Not sure if it's already translated into English. The original language is French and it's freshly translated into German now. But the (what is the opposite of spin-off?) Sherlock Holmes comics it belongs to seem to be available in English.
Awwww, how cute. Sulu meets his great great great grandfather. ❤
@maich #meetthelittens
1. Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
2. Mara und der Feuerbringer by Tommy Krappweis
3. Well, same as 2.
4. Kingsman, nowadays. Earlier it was Dragonheart.
5. Star Trek TOS!
6. Arne (Singer of 'Duivelspack') or Jan Zinkler (opera singer)
7. black
8. everything humorous
9. unemployed (officially still student, but I just passed my last exam and now I'm a Master of Arts in Sociology, yay )
10. Only plushs. Allergic :(
Got new books. All #startrek and it was 1 € per book ❤
so-soThough the book is not boring at all, it is rather brutal and dark. Not that much of a fun read, but still an interesting story. Only the epilogue seems hasty and rather unexplained though in its events to be expected.
so-soThough Ethan Hawke describes values that he thinks a knight or lady should have, and most of them are in fact to be desired, the thought that people can survive in a society while following all the rules, is highly unlikely. And the tale of a mighty stag is rather biased. It's more like he wants to force his own values on children as they are the ones addressed with this book.
panCrap. Real crap. Racist and insulting unemployed people and gays. I wonder why this book is still being sold.
pickAs Reboot-McCoy would say: Just friends my ass. --- A really good #startrek novel. It's funny, creepy, exciting and scientific all at once. And I would have liked it, if they would not have used the word love for Spock's thoughts about Jim, but I'm grateful nonetheless. So, #Readathon done and with this 3 books down.
pickNot as good as his first book, but still good.
And Readathon book 1 is hereby read.
Still reading a fanfiction I wanted to finish before #readathon but life got in the way. Anyway, soon it'll be books, books and books.
Great. Having a literary crush is one thing. But a graphic novelly crush? Still, Ballister is kinda awesome. He looks a little like how I imagine Havelock Vetinari to look like.
My #Readathon books. Though I probably won't make it through all of them. 😅
Happy #worldbookday everyone :) (I still don't understand how there can be two worldbookdays. One in March for U.K. and one each year on April 23rd for every other country in the world. Both can't be world(!)bookdays then, can they?)
pickLacking a bit of love for Scotty, Uhura and so on, rather focusing on McCoy, Spock and Khan when it comes to interviews, but an enjoyable read.
The glasses are broken and you do not have spare glasses for this case. Yep, that was my problem a few months ago, too... #leseparty
panJames Blish wrote about constructivism, nutritional biology, astrophysics and philosophy but forgot on the way that this was supposed to be a SciFi novel, not a scientific paper.
One of my country's two big book fairs is starting today and for those of us who stay at home there's a huge reading party going on this weekend on twitter and instagram under the tag #leseparty. All of you who are at #lbm2017 have fun and 'Bringt mir was mit 😜'
