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cmyrland finished reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a …
Bah, dette tok mye lenger tid enn det burde. Fint å ha lest den, men det må være lov å si at disse ymse klassikerne blir litt monotone og kjedelige å lese i lengden, samme hvor viktige de er i litteraturhistorien. Nå blir det klassikerpause en god stund fremover, tror jeg. Men for all del, flere folk burde plukke opp denne og lese den, for å forstå hva den egentlig handler om. Kan vel si at det popkulturelle bildet av Frankensteins monster er noe forvridd...
cmyrland commented on Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller …
Well. Jeg er ikke en som leser mye sci-fi, men jeg må si PHM er fornøyelig. Språket og humoren er litt amerikansk komedie med Seth Rogen i 2015-ish, og "pedagogiske" forklaringer av fysikk, matematikk og teknologi som klattes inn i hovedpersonens tankerekker osv er noe som ofte bryter illusjonen for meg, men likevel koser jeg meg med denne. Det er mye humring underveis, og sidene fyker unna når jeg først setter meg ned.
Well. Jeg er ikke en som leser mye sci-fi, men jeg må si PHM er fornøyelig. Språket og humoren er litt amerikansk komedie med Seth Rogen i 2015-ish, og "pedagogiske" forklaringer av fysikk, matematikk og teknologi som klattes inn i hovedpersonens tankerekker osv er noe som ofte bryter illusjonen for meg, men likevel koser jeg meg med denne. Det er mye humring underveis, og sidene fyker unna når jeg først setter meg ned.
cmyrland started reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller …
Lese boka ✅ Se filmen ❌
Lese boka ✅ Se filmen ❌
cmyrland finished reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #16)
Death goes walk-about and tries everything, including joining the French Foreign Legion, to forget a …
I stand corrected! Denne var noe helt annet enn Moving Pictures, og jeg koste meg gjennom hele boka. De parallelle sidehistoriene, skildringene og ikke minst de mange og varierte karakterene gjør at denne boka til et helt annet kaliber enn MP, selv om akkurat det som handler om Music With Rocks In It også denne gang var den delen som ga meg minst.
Soul Music er likevel helt der oppe blant Discworld-bøkene jeg har lest hittil.
cmyrland commented on Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #16)
Death goes walk-about and tries everything, including joining the French Foreign Legion, to forget a …
Okei, så hittil koser jeg meg enormt med denne boka! Et langt, langt steg opp fra Moving Pictures, og mye mer i tråd med feks Small Gods og Men at Arms.
cmyrland started reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #16)
Death goes walk-about and tries everything, including joining the French Foreign Legion, to forget a …
Kjenner jeg har litt lave forventninger til denne, om den er i samme stil som Moving Pictures. Synes ikke disse direkte overføringene fra vår verden til Discworld er så voldsomt interessant. Meeeeen jeg håper jo på å bli positivt overrasket!
(Og dessuten: Begynne på bok nummer 8 for året før mars er omme må jeg si er langt foran skjema, gitt lesemålet på 20 bøker i 2026. Så det er jo absolutt noe å ta med seg!)
cmyrland finished reading Muleum by Erlend Loe
Så absolutt en av de bedre Loe-bøkene jeg har lest. Lettlest om et veldig mørkt tema, på Loe sin sedvanlige vittige måte, men likevel på en slik måte at det var spennende helt inn.
Jeg er vel nesten mest skuffet over slutten. (Fjernet ei litta spoiler her)
Men absolutt en god bok, løp og les om du ikke har gjort det enda. (Bare tenk deg om en gang eller to om død og selvmord er vanskelige tema for deg)
cmyrland started reading Muleum by Erlend Loe
#7 for året. Jeg skulle egentlig ta en liten Loe-pause, men nå var det en gang denne som lå øverst i bunken på nattbordet. Jeg liker ihvertfall de første sidene her.
cmyrland finished reading Prosten og hans forunderlige tjener by Arto Paasilinna
Strange, silly and entertaining! Some good laughs along the way. I like the way bizarre events are explained matter-of-factly, like it's no different from getting milk at the store.
Should you read whatever you come across by Arto Paasilinna? Yes. Yes, you should.
Strange, silly and entertaining! Some good laughs along the way. I like the way bizarre events are explained matter-of-factly, like it's no different from getting milk at the store.
Should you read whatever you come across by Arto Paasilinna? Yes. Yes, you should.
cmyrland finished reading Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
Moving Pictures is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published in 1990, the …
Ikke den beste boka i serien, men helt grei underholdning. Jeg tror det merkes at denne ble lest litt ute av takt, ettersom jeg egentlig er kommet til Interesting Times, men ikke fikk tak i Moving Pictures før nå.
Men ikke for det, det var absolutt en del humring underveis her også. Synes bare historien var litt... tynn og urealistisk 🤪
cmyrland started reading Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
Moving Pictures is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published in 1990, the …
Back to the Discworld!
Fikk endelig bestilt opp en liten bunke med bøker fra The Discworld Emporium igjen, så da har jeg litt å kose meg med.
Kaffe ✅ Bok ✅ Rolig morgen ✅
Back to the Discworld!
Fikk endelig bestilt opp en liten bunke med bøker fra The Discworld Emporium igjen, så da har jeg litt å kose meg med.
Kaffe ✅ Bok ✅ Rolig morgen ✅
cmyrland finished reading Odyssey by Stephen Fry (Stephen Fry's retelling of the Greek myths, #4)
After the fall of Troy, wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, sails for home and his …
After having dragged myself through Mythos (all those names, places, origin stories, bits and pieces that lay the foundations of the Greek myths can be quite overwhelming, even in the friendly tones of Stephen Fry) and fought my way through Troy (fate would have it that I wound up reading Troy before Heroes - in retrospect I'd suggest doing it the other way around), I found Heroes and now The Odyssey much easier reads, and Stephen Fry's retelling of The Odyssey was a real page turner. I read another, older version a little under a year ago, and while it wasn't bad, I found it a much harder read than this. I also like how he ends the book, and how he draws the lines between poets like Homer and modern day generative AI, and how he points out the importance of The Odyssey even in modern literature, theatre and …
After having dragged myself through Mythos (all those names, places, origin stories, bits and pieces that lay the foundations of the Greek myths can be quite overwhelming, even in the friendly tones of Stephen Fry) and fought my way through Troy (fate would have it that I wound up reading Troy before Heroes - in retrospect I'd suggest doing it the other way around), I found Heroes and now The Odyssey much easier reads, and Stephen Fry's retelling of The Odyssey was a real page turner. I read another, older version a little under a year ago, and while it wasn't bad, I found it a much harder read than this. I also like how he ends the book, and how he draws the lines between poets like Homer and modern day generative AI, and how he points out the importance of The Odyssey even in modern literature, theatre and movies.
Stephen Fry's Odyssey is by far the easiest read in the series, and a brilliant end to Fry's retelling of the Greek myths.
Carl started reading Odyssey by Stephen Fry (Stephen Fry's retelling of the Greek myths, #4)
After the fall of Troy, wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, sails for home and his …
New month, new book. I read the original Penguin Classics retelling of The Odyssey (www.penguin.co.uk/books/35467/the-odyssey-by-homer/9780141192444) less than a year ago, but when I saw that Mr. Fry had written his own interpretation, I simply had to give this one a go as well. Hopefully it'll flow a bit easier than the previous version and Bram Stoker's Dracula which I just finished after a month's toiling.
New month, new book. I read the original Penguin Classics retelling of The Odyssey (www.penguin.co.uk/books/35467/the-odyssey-by-homer/9780141192444) less than a year ago, but when I saw that Mr. Fry had written his own interpretation, I simply had to give this one a go as well. Hopefully it'll flow a bit easier than the previous version and Bram Stoker's Dracula which I just finished after a month's toiling.
Carl started reading Dracula by Bram Stoker
This diary style book by Bram Stoker continues to put fear into the hearts of …