This was a long project. It was one for the poet, and now it was my pleasure for years. The Baroque Cycle is not a short story. Mr. Stephenson makes a long story even longer -- indeed especially with this works I got the impression that he wants to make Tolkien look like a writer of abstracts. And like the Lord of the …
WeiterlesenAfter a quite long Pratchett deprivation I continued my voyage on the Discworld with 'Thief of Time'. It was the right one to get addicted again. It has all what makes the Discworld so rich -- mysterious characters, naive characters, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. And above all The Language and The Humour. The book …
WeiterlesenEspecially in my younger years I have been a dedicated fan of Ridley Scott's movie "Blade Runner". That might be because I liked the dark scenery, the dry acting style of Harrison Ford, and liked the music of Vangelis even more. But it was also the story that was not a usual good guys vs. bad guys stuff that successful …
WeiterlesenI found this book by pure chance, and pure change is also one of the topics of this book. Is it pure chance that life looks like we see it? Or are there deeper laws (of mathematics, physics, chemistry, or God) involved we may do not know about? How on earth was life able to create more complex (and ordered) specimen …
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