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DAT@wyrms.de

Joined 2 years, 10 months ago

SciFi/Fantasy and nerdstuff

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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) (Paperback, 2011, Crown Publishers) 4 stars

Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American …

Review of 'Ready player one' on 'GoodReads'

4 stars

I said it once before: "meet "80s memes the dystopian scifi book"

I really wanted to like it, but not because it's an actually good book (in fact the writing could be better and the story isn't surprising at all - after the introduction of the characters, everybody will know how that book is ending), but because it's a well optimized meme collection with exactly the story elements that tend to sell well.

No, the dystopian megacorp doesn't win against the highly enthusiastic teenager.
Also that Girl he's crazy about, who doesn't want him because of the central conflict? Yeah, you know what'll hapen after the conflict is going to be resolved.

There's not even remotely relevant side-characters dying - at least nobody anyone would care about.

So... is this a bad book? No, it's a highly entertaining one. But not great literature.

Qualityland (Hardcover, 2020, Grand Central Publishing) 4 stars

Review of 'Qualityland' on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

ich erwartete ein Werk dass mit dem Känguru mithalten kann. Das bekam ich leider nicht. Gut wird das Buch leider erst nach dem ersten Viertel, davor ist es doch recht eintönig und z.B. die spöttischen Kommentare, wie sie das Känguru äußern würde, fehlten ersatzlos.

Dafür hielt sich der Autor umso stärker mit Einführung in das Szenario und Erklärungen auf.

Das Ende ist dafür umso besser und man würde gerne noch gleich einen Nachfolger konsumieren.

If I Was Your Girl (Paperback, 2017, USBORNE CAT ANG) 3 stars

Review of 'If I Was Your Girl' on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

I really tried to like this book. In the end it's kinda ok, but sadly nothing more.

I thought reading about the life of a trans-teenager would be far enough out of my area of experience to make for an interesting read. But on itself it isn't. Yeah, I'm staight white male - probably had an "easy" youth without huge problems whatsoever.

What's too far from me to relate to is this stereotypic over-the-top american stuff. (i'm german)

And then there are just so many parts of this book that just read like any other standard "ugly-duckling-meets-prince-charming"-teeny-flick, sometimes interrupted of chapters where we learn about how got to the point where the book starts.

Make her born a poor girl, with ugly glasses and you get like every second crappy movie of that genre out there. And even all the people act like it. Most of them completely irrational, but …