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jonn

jonn@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 6 months ago

That doma.dev guy.

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I don't like cringe stuff.

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2024 Reading Goal

45% complete! jonn has read 24 of 53 books.

Anthony Horowitz: Close to Death (2024, Penguin Random House) 5 stars

Another stellar Horowitz

5 stars

I am quite proud to say that, even though I didn’t figure out the motive, I have managed to solve the case by elimination.

I absolutely love Anthony’s writing and what he does to the genre. Development of Hawthorne was also quite something.

Do yourself a favour and read the books in order though!

reviewed I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (Robot (1))

Isaac Asimov: I, Robot (Paperback, 1984, Del Rey) 4 stars

ROBOPSYCHOLOGIST Dr. Susan Calvin had seen it all when it came to robots. As a …

In Asimov’s work, we see what we know. How many gems are still uncovered?

5 stars

The topics in this book that were outstanding for me were parental neglect and bullying children into what parents feel they should do rather than letting them live and experiment. Crushing the psyche. It’s quite cute how psychologic story is also the origin of the psychologist career, good rhyme there.

But time proved Mrs. Weston a bit too optimistic. To be sure, Gloria ceased crying, but she ceased smiling, too, and the passing days found her ever more silent and shadowy. Gradually, her attitude of passive unhappiness wore Mrs. Weston down and all that kept her from yielding was the impossibility of admitting defeat to her husband. Asimov on parental priorities. Very accurate!

Then, I don’t know how popular were wild conspiracy theories in the 40s, but I loved the vignette where one of the experimental roboticists are working with a religious robots:

Powell’s fingers were in his mustache and …

reviewed Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams, Terry Jones, Marie-Catherine Caillava: Starship Titanic (Paperback, French language, 2001, J'ai lu) 3 stars

Adamsian study of humans being humans

5 stars

I loved everything about the book: corrupted genius, quickly-reverting epiphanies, deranged space travel and two new alien species, unheard of in previous Adams’s works.

I also love it when no details are inconsequential, when the story loops onto itself and ties so tightly that there are no holes.

My only nudge against the book was that Nettie’s character was too consistently flawless. But her story is not without an unexpectedly epic twist too.

I loved the preface by Douglas Adams too, some laughs there, don’t sleep on it.

Good stuff through and through, 5/5, would read again.

And, traditionally, the quote of the book. Enjoy the misandry! :3

"What on Earth d’you think you’re doing, Bozo?" When Nigel sounded playful he was always at his most dangerous.

"Sh!" said Nettie. "I’m taking a photo of the house. Don’t jog the car." "I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, Einstein." There was …