Not quite as good as Network Effect, perhaps because ART is less involved this time. The first couple of chapters also confused me a bit -- I felt like I'd been dropped into the middle of a book and had missed the build-up -- but once I got past that it was a ton of fun.
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pdotb started reading Dracula by Ulrich Bossier
Dracula by Ulrich Bossier, Bram Stoker, Elmar Schenkel
Der Urvater aller Blutsaugerromane machte bei seinem Erscheinen, 1897, Furore. »Keine Lektüre für Schwachnervige« kündigte die Werbung für die deutsche …
pdotb finished reading Imperiale Lebensweise by Ulrich Brand
Imperiale Lebensweise by Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen
Haben wir die Zeiten des Imperialismus nicht längst hinter uns gelassen?
Wenn man erwägt, in welchem Maße sich der Globale …
pdotb started reading Dead-End Memories by Asa Yoneda
pdotb finished reading System Collapse by Empty Author (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
System Collapse by Empty Author (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
pdotb reviewed System Collapse by Empty Author (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
Slight degradation
4 stars
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Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
I gained interesting insights, ART-drone said. You should stop worrying. Yeah, I'll just code a patch to stop feeling anxiety, wow, why didn't I think of that earlier. (That was sarcasm, I have too much organic neural tissue for that to work.) (Of course I've already tried it.)
— System Collapse by Empty Author (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) (Page 173)
pdotb started reading System Collapse by Empty Author (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
System Collapse by Empty Author (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
pdotb started reading The discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
pdotb finished reading The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend by Elizabeth Archibald
The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend by Elizabeth Archibald, Ad Putter
For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been …
For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of …
Good overview of the Arthurian legend in literature
4 stars
The first half of the book consists of pretty much a chapter per century, starting with the original sources and then walking through Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, Malory, and so on. This part seemed consistently excellent, to me. The second half is much more patchy, consisting of chapters on different themes in Arthurian literature, such as the relationship between Christianity and magic or the attempt to map the Arthurian legend onto the real geography of Britain. Some chapters are really interesting and others... less so.
pdotb started reading Take Us to a Better Place by Martha Wells
Take Us to a Better Place by Martha Wells, Yoon Ha Lee, Madeline Ashby, and 7 others
Take Us to a Better Place is a collection of powerful, perceptive, and seamlessly crafted fiction that tells multiple truths …
pdotb started reading Living Nembutsu by Jeff Wilson
pdotb finished reading Untangled by Koshin Paley Ellison
pdotb finished reading Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …