This book was so boring that I stopped about about 3 chapters
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adastra reviewed The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must …
Review of 'The Case for Mars' on 'Goodreads'
Review of 'The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Honestly thought a lot of this book was pretty boring, but maybe that's just because I read it to fall asleep.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, [Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut]) is a …
Review of 'Summary: Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I stopped reading this book at like 60% because it got way too depressing.
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as …
Review of 'The Horse, the Wheel, and Language' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I stopped reading this book at 30% because it was super boring to read about archaeological stuff in minute detail. Might be interesting for archaeologists, but not for me.
adastra reviewed The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Geralt de Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded …
Review of 'The Last Wish' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This was just a s incoherent as the TV show.
adastra reviewed View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman
"An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to …
Review of 'View From the Cheap Seats' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Out of all Neil Gaiman books I've read, I have to say that this is the least interesting. His fiction is just WAY better than his non-fiction (most of which I already read on the internet at some point anyway).
adastra reviewed Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #8)
Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds …
Review of "Tiamat's Wrath" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
That took me a lot longer than I thought xD Allover, I think the book had its lengths. Like most books in the series, there's very little happening in the range of 10-40 and 60-90% of the book, and all the action happens in the middle and at the end. Could use more balance. But allover, I'm VERY interested in reading the final book now...
adastra reviewed More Than Two by Franklin Veaux
Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? …
Review of 'More Than Two' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
"Be flexible. Be compassionate. Rules can never cure insecurity. Integrity matters. Never try to script what your relationships will look like. Love is abundant. Compatibility matters. You cannot sacrifice your happiness for that of another. [...] It is almost impossible to be loving or compassionate when all you fear is fear of loss. Trust that your partners want to be with you, and that if given the freedom to do anything they please, they will choose to cherish and support you."
adastra rated Saga, Volume 1: 4 stars
Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Saga, #1)
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a …
adastra rated Motherland: 2 stars
adastra reviewed Y, the last man. by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man (10))
Review of 'Y, the last man.' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
(This is a review of the entire series!)
I was very excited about this graphic novel - a dystopian world in which all men but one mysteriously die? But I was hugely disappointed, as this isn't the feminist utopia I was looking for. It's anything but, and the fact that this title was written by a man should have warned me. It's very obviously a title written by men for men, as it's pretty much every man's fantasy to have a world of women at his disposal, isn't it?
Well, the comic cleverly tries to avoid such implications by making Yorick, the last man, a very sensitive, fairly unmasculine, English major. He doesn't take advantage of his situation at all, rather, he is on a 5-year quest around the world to find his girlfriend, who was in Australia when the men a died (while Yorick was in the US).
And …
(This is a review of the entire series!)
I was very excited about this graphic novel - a dystopian world in which all men but one mysteriously die? But I was hugely disappointed, as this isn't the feminist utopia I was looking for. It's anything but, and the fact that this title was written by a man should have warned me. It's very obviously a title written by men for men, as it's pretty much every man's fantasy to have a world of women at his disposal, isn't it?
Well, the comic cleverly tries to avoid such implications by making Yorick, the last man, a very sensitive, fairly unmasculine, English major. He doesn't take advantage of his situation at all, rather, he is on a 5-year quest around the world to find his girlfriend, who was in Australia when the men a died (while Yorick was in the US).
And that's where the comic started bothering me - we're presented with a post apocalyptic world in which society has broken down. No more phones, no more electricity, no more planes. I find it utterly unrealistic that a world full of women would be unable to maintain the basic functionalities of society. Of course there might be an adjustment phase, but after that, women would be perfectly capable of doing anything men can do. It just takes some organizational skills, which I daresay women are much better at than men.
The comic also displays it's dystopia full of gangs and criminality. Again, I find this very unrealistic. I don't think women would go quite as far as the ridiculous Daughters of the Amazon are going. The comic is full of similar fanatics, like the Israeli soldiers who want to claim the last man for the future of their country. Knowing what I know about Israel, I find this pretty unlikely.
The whole conclusion to why the wipeout happened was not very satisfying either, it was rather ridiculous. There would have been much better scenarios as to why all males suddenly died.
Allover, this title was a huge disappointment for me. Where is the feminist utopia in which women lead a better world?
adastra rated Kimono Dragons (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8): 3 stars
Kimono Dragons (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8) by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, #8)
adastra rated Y, the last man.: 4 stars
