A great small non-Discworld story. It's as if all the "simple people" gags in other books run away together to get their own story ❤️
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Alessandro Piroddi rated Truckers: 4 stars
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Truckers by Terry Pratchett (The Bromeliad trilogy ;)
Reluctant to believe that there's a world outside the department store in which they live, Torrit, Dorcas, and the other …
Alessandro Piroddi rated Truckers: 4 stars
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Truckers by Terry Pratchett (The Bromeliad trilogy ;)
Reluctant to believe that there's a world outside the department store in which they live, Torrit, Dorcas, and the other …
Alessandro Piroddi finished reading Truckers by Terry Pratchett (The Bromeliad trilogy ;)
Alessandro Piroddi finished reading La lussuria è una lepre bisessuale by Maurizio Bettini
Maybe it's because I'm a Media scholar, but this book read like cheap and pointless phylosophy. A collection of meandering ramblings with no real point and a lot of questionable opinions, delivered in a way that while not aggressively unpleasant, was throughly boring. In summation: I did not like it :P
Alessandro Piroddi finished reading Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
It's nice. A juiced blend of ALL possible fantasy romance clichés in existence, but surprisingly legible and engaging 😜
The crypt scene! So. Hot! It reminded me of all the vampire fantasies I ever had (and Masquerade failed to deliver 😬😅😉).
I'm enjoying trying to discern the book's themes and messages, which are not as obvious and clear cut as they might seem 🧐
Also, it's making me feel a twinge of discomfort because of how impossibly handsome every male in the story is, how their looks seem to amount to 80% of their worth. Especially how Jacks keeps getting away with behaving like a monster just because his looks make him so desirable that everyone bends over backwards to find ways to understand and justify his actions.
It's interesting because it's a new sensation to me. More than jealousy or envy. It feels wrong and unfair. It makes me …
It's nice. A juiced blend of ALL possible fantasy romance clichés in existence, but surprisingly legible and engaging 😜
The crypt scene! So. Hot! It reminded me of all the vampire fantasies I ever had (and Masquerade failed to deliver 😬😅😉).
I'm enjoying trying to discern the book's themes and messages, which are not as obvious and clear cut as they might seem 🧐
Also, it's making me feel a twinge of discomfort because of how impossibly handsome every male in the story is, how their looks seem to amount to 80% of their worth. Especially how Jacks keeps getting away with behaving like a monster just because his looks make him so desirable that everyone bends over backwards to find ways to understand and justify his actions.
It's interesting because it's a new sensation to me. More than jealousy or envy. It feels wrong and unfair. It makes me feel inadequate too, if only briefly. I wonder if that's kind of like women must feel, considering how this (in reverse) happens all the time in so many traditional media and stories.
All in all a good summer reading.
Alessandro Piroddi rated Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: 5 stars
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and …
Alessandro Piroddi reviewed Trouble and her friends by Melissa Scott
Alessandro Piroddi rated Hyperion (Hyperion, #1): 3 stars
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Hyperion (Hyperion, #1) by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, ##1)
Im Jahr 2700 - die Erde ist durch den Großen Fehler bereits vor langem zerstört worden - leben die Menschen …
Alessandro Piroddi rated The Fall of Hyperion: 3 stars
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The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
Alessandro Piroddi rated The Fall of Hyperion: 3 stars
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The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
Alessandro Piroddi reviewed Piranesi
Alessandro Piroddi rated Nona the Ninth: 3 stars
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Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many …
Alessandro Piroddi finished reading Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)
A bit slow, but much more easily enjoyable than Harrow. A bit too much acceleration and panic at the very end, but it will probably make sense when the next book expands on these moments in more detail (maybe? possibly? hopefully? hard to tell with Muir ^_^' )