The beginning was odd, a lot of recapping from the first book.
A lot of the central part felt dragged out a bit It did get exciting though! A fun read.
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bamy rated Rust Programming Language: 5 stars
Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
The official book on the Rust programming language, written by the Rust development team at the Mozilla Foundation, fully updated …
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
From the number one New York Times best-selling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive …
bamy rated How to Be an Antiracist: 4 stars
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points …
bamy rated Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: 5 stars
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Het Achterhuis is de titel van het dagboek van Anne Frank (1929-1945) voor het eerst uitgegeven op 25 juni 1947. …
bamy rated The Girl with All the Gifts: 4 stars
bamy rated Study Guide: 3 stars
bamy reviewed Starsight by Brandon Sanderson (Skyward, #2)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, …
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3 stars
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4 stars
Among other things, I liked the world world-building, really full and interesting characters and the complex systemic issues in the fictional world. I didn't quit get into the narration style.
Among other things, I liked the world world-building, really full and interesting characters and the complex systemic issues in the fictional world. I didn't quit get into the narration style.
bamy rated The Hobbit or There and Back Again: 5 stars
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit or There and Back Again (Paperback, 2013, Mariner Books)
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. …
bamy reviewed This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
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4 stars
The authors have a solid command of the English language and show it throughout the entire book.
This type of heavily abstract and poetry like writing made it difficult for me to get into at first; I may have spent 10 minutes on a single page at some point. By the end I felt like my mind was was being weaved through time, place, space and emotion.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on …
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2 stars
Meh.
All characters are 1 dimensional and completely interchangeable. Emotion is never explored at all, somehow Mark makes jokes and is logical no matter the circumstance.
The author feels like a new author to me; Weird writing style mixtures. The book starts out with mark getting wounded and isn’t ever mentioned again even though he’s permanently doing physical labour. Plot suspension is built over some time and after things are avoided, it’s never mentioned again by anyone, not even the fact that things were avoided.
It feels like it was based on the movie, but somehow with less emotion than cinema.
The book ruined the movie for me, and also the book.
The science was really cool though!
2.5 stars
bamy reviewed Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice by David M. Higgins
NB! This is not Ancilliary Justice, but a crititical companion.
This book argues that …
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4 stars
I liked it!
I found it difficult to follow the first 15% of the book and only really got into it at about 25% which is pretty far compared to what I'm used to. I'm sure it was intentional but I was doubting my understanding and comprehension initially. This made it feel like I was forcefully trudging through until a point I would hopefully understand.
Once I got into it the book kept on getting more interesting and exciting as it progressed.
I enjoyed the way the book played with concept of self, culture and gender concepts.
I liked it!
I found it difficult to follow the first 15% of the book and only really got into it at about 25% which is pretty far compared to what I'm used to. I'm sure it was intentional but I was doubting my understanding and comprehension initially. This made it feel like I was forcefully trudging through until a point I would hopefully understand.
Once I got into it the book kept on getting more interesting and exciting as it progressed.
I enjoyed the way the book played with concept of self, culture and gender concepts.
bamy reviewed The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials (3))
In the astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will are in …
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2 stars
While reading this it felt like the author had decided on an ending to the series after the second book and then tried to make everything that previously happened work in the context of the new direction.
The story felt forced and the character development of Lyra felt like it come from an unintentionally sexist place. The story was going from point to point and the reasoning for the story progressing that way wasn’t strong enough for me.
2.5 stars.
bamy reviewed The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …
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4 stars
A psychics/mathematical/cosmological hard sci-fi which tends to focus heavily on technical details making it feel very grounded in reality. I liked it a lot!
Note: Try to read the book without reading the summary.