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Esteban Torres

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🇨🇷 born & raised currently living in Berlin 🇩🇪 @esttorhe@mastodon.social

OSS enthusiast and science fiction lover LiuCixin is my current obsession

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Naomi Alderman: The Future (Hardcover, 2023, Simon & Schuster)

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find …

Slow start, VERY slow. Middle of the book picks up the pace and becomes quite engaging

The very end is a wee bit predictive

Overall a nice message. An ok book

Jeremy Tiang, Shuang Xuetao: Rouge Street (Hardcover, 2022, Metropolitan Books)

From one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast …

To me this fell flat. Reads a wee bit like Liu Cixin but just a little. Not enough to capture me the same way Liu does

reviewed The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim

Gene Kim: The Phoenix Project (Hardcover, 2013, IT Revolution Press)

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the …

So so

I genuinely like the writing style. Writing int as a story is definitely infinitely better than any other "recipe" book.

That being said, as of 2024 this book reads full of cliches; and the MC being the macho American ex navy just destroys a bunch of different great points

Has interesting points but not mind blowing (obviously this is 11 years after initial writing)

Axie Oh: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover, 2022, Feiwel & Friends)

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody …

Great book

To me this reads like something from the same place where Studio Ghibli draws inspiration from.

The ambience of the story, the flow and the characters. I grabbed this book randomly and I'm so very happy I did