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finished reading The Blue Angel (Dr. Who Series) by Paul Magrs

Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad: The Blue Angel (Dr. Who Series) (Paperback, 1999, BBC Worldwide Publishing) No rating

Half of this book makes no sense and the other half is made up of fanservice specifically for Me. To completely misrepresent a one star review I read on Amazon:

As an avid Doctor Who fan, I was overjoyed by this sad attempt at a story. Filled with chaos and nonsense, the authors evidently didn't care about continuity. Cool homosexual references. And the (Obverse) Doctor's mother (Magda!)? Do Hoad and Magrs know anything about the Doctor's history, or where they drunk when they wrote this? Thanks, guys, for messing up the continuity.

finished reading The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

Anonymous: The Epic of Gilgamesh (2006)

Quite funny.

Other than the most recent review of this story I don't believe it becomes "less interesting" after Enkidu dies. Gilgameš is concerned more with his own immortality than the death of his companion and I don't think that's bad or anything? Clearly it's the point, his good friend, his equal, dies pointlessly of a sickness and he draws parallels to himself. The point is that fighting the inevitable "doom of mankind" is pointless.

you toiled away, and what did you achieve? You are exhausting [yourself with] ceaseless toil, you are filling your sinews with pain, bringing nearer the end of your life.

I don't think that this undermines the love he had for his friend or the fact he mourns him. He repeatedly (i read the parallelism-heavy Standard Babilonian translation) states his sadness over his friends death

I did not give him up for burial, until a maggot …

started reading Der Insektensammler by Olaf Fritsche

Olaf Fritsche, Barbara Dziadosz: Der Insektensammler (2020, Rowohlt Verlag) No rating

Manche finden wir schön, manche finden wir lästig. Und seit einiger Zeit ist uns bewusst, …

Content warning pointless talk about design

reviewed Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams: Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1991)

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by …

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Both Dirk Gently books were gifted to me upon request on Christmas 2021. This second book, while not as good as the first one, is definitely worth checking out because it is just as funny. My 'issues' (which is a big word because there's not exactly anything I could point to and say "this was bad", it's just not as good as the first one) are with the plot and not the quality of the humor which is the same.