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Replica

Replica@bookwyrm.social

Joined 4 months, 2 weeks ago

A digital artist and a very picky reader, eternally looking for the perfect book. I read mostly fiction (scifi, horror, fantasy...) and some non fiction occasionally. ESP/ENG

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reviewed Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow: Radicalized (EBook, 2019, Head of Zeus)

Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation--New York Times bestselling …

I Think I've Seen All This Before

This book contains four separate novellas: - Unauthorized Bread (my favorite) - Model Minority - Radicalized - The Masque of Red Death

The stories started out very promising but they kind of deflated halfway through. They could have been shorter too (specially the first one), and there wasn't a lot more to tell. I expected more, to be honest. I feel it doesn't deliver anything new. For the most part I felt that each of them ended without providing a satisfying ending.

When this book was first published on 2019 I guess the themes and concepts within it would have been more impactful but right now, as I write this in 2025, reality has surpassed fiction in all fronts and few things surprise me anymore.

I give it 3 stars because they're well written pieces of fiction and I'm sure people getting started with science fiction or those who don't …

finished reading Bradbury Weather by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitlín R. Kiernan: Bradbury Weather (Hardcover, 2024, Subterranean Press)

Though Caitlín R. Kiernan is known primarily as a preeminent author of the weird and …

I can't do this anymore. I really tried to finish this collection but I'm bored, all stories feel similar and I don't think it has anything new to offer me. A shame because I thought it was just my thing but I guess I was wrong :/

reviewed Conclave by Robert Harris

Robert Harris: Conclave (Hardcover, 2016, Knopf)

The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and …

My Brother in Christ, Where are the Turtles?

An excellent companion for the Conclave movie. Although both are pretty similar, almost scene for scene, the book gives a more direct account of the inner struggle that suffers his protagonist, Cardinal Lomeli/Lawrence, and his relationships with the other characters. In any case, I'm left with the feeling of wanting to know more about the new Pope and this future, and the abrupt ending doesn't leave any time for that.

I would recommend this book to those who want to delve a little deeper on the story or those who haven't seen the movie and know nothing about it.