Timo
Can you fix something that was already broken to begin with?
A nice little book about terrible and narcissistic people who parade and bath in their money on their small private island. Status is all that counts.
A nice little book about those terrible peoples kids, who doesn't want to be a part of all those intrigues. They want to grow to be better people than their parents and want to make a change.
But how? How to save them from themselves? Sometimes it needs a tragedy to bring people back together and start caring again.
Fantastic. This book had it all. Humor, feelings, a little bit of action, life lessons, science, poetry...
I couldn't stop reading. The writing is easy and the chapters small. It flows perfectly.
I laughed out loud more than a few times and felt strongly connected with the main characters feelings.
What makes us human? What's the point of living? Can we love even in the darkest moments? This book has thought provoking opinions on all of this.
As my second dive into comics I got Book 1 & 2 for christmas.
And oh yes this is a grand opening. I already have way more fun with this than with my first dive “American Vampire”.
Y is very fast paced (at least Book 1 so far - could be because the overall state of the world and the first main characters get introduced on such few pages). There were a lot of jumps to other locations all around the world, and nearly every few pages or at least every chapter ended on some cliffhanger, or with a panel that just left me dying to read on. So I naturally really burnt through this quick. It was a really fun page turner and I start to realize that this is what I want in comics.
My only complaints are that really all the main characters (and even most all of the side characters) are pure cliche. Everyone fulfills their cliche roles and even says everything that fills this role. Also apparently everyone is seriously good looking in this “dystopian” world. There's not one unattractive character. I really hope these things will tone down a bit as the story progresses.
So for now...off to Book 2!
What an incredible adventure. It's the longest and most detailed book I've ever read so far. In the beginning you have this ultra detailed and frightening story of the death of almost all mankind. In the middle it gets a bit slow but picks up again at the end.
Quite a long time ago I read this. But I remember I had a blast. Kept me reading and reading.
I loved it. After finishing it, it couldn't leave my mind.
What begins as a story of mental breakdown after a great loss, evolves in a full adventure with monsters, action and even secret societies. It's clever and mind-bending with the right touch of emotion. I really really loved the ending.
A story about two 11 year old girls in a rural Scandinavian village. One day one of the girls wanders into a half frozen waterfall and goes missing.
The story is pretty short and there is not a lot happening story wise. Most of the book is about describing the cold wintery landscape in a very lyrical matter.
I know that the main characters are 11 year old girls and I'm the furthest from that particular mindset, but their cryptic conversations and the way they handled things made me want to scream at them.
All dialogues in the book are very cryptic and more akin to poems, which is really fitting with the lyrical landscape description mentioned above and the overall writing style. But in the end it all blurred together and I was skipping more and more passages.
It started interesting and the part which describes how the girl wanders off and goes deeper and deeper into the wilderness is cleverly written, but everything after that frustrated me.
I've always been really intrigued by Japanese culture and media. I watch the occasional anime, and like to play Japanese video games. For my next dive into this world, I thought why not try to get into mangas? So I purchased a few that I had either heard from, or that sounded interesting. Death Note, being pretty popular was one I heard about.
What did I like? The art. Most of the time. I love when animes are beautiful drawn. They can really spread some comfy feelings for me. Death Note had some of this. Scenes inside a classroom, in the city, or inside Lights bedroom were quite comfortable. Ryuk, the god of death, is perfectly drawn with his dead eyes and evil grin.
What else did I like? The overall story. But only nearing the end of Vol. 1. There are a few “twists” and elements getting thrown in at the end that could make it pretty interesting later on.
What I hated? The writing. Good god the writing is so bad. I understand that this is probably the fault of the translation (I hope), but this is really cringe worthy.
Light is such a weird character and his dialogues with Ryuk are really feeling forced.
I purchased Vol. 2 at the same time and will of course give it a go. But if there aren't some new awesome and engaging story elements that will hook me, I don't think I will continue this series. Especially if the writing keeps being so bad.
This was my first kind of “meh” encounter with King. After my very first two King books (The Stand and 11/22/63) blew me away, I couldn't get warm with this one. I don't know, maybe everything is happening too fast but I couldn't get sucked into the story like the other two did. I liked the ending at the beach though.
First of, I got this book through a Goodreads giveaway.
I've never heard about the “Alex Cross” series or even James Patterson before. (Then again I just started reading seriously this year, so pardon me.)
I just jumped right in with no expectations at all. And boy was it a fun ride.
This book has everything I could wished for in the crime/detective genre. A full packed story with more than one murder, gruesome deaths, pretty girls and and and.
I got attached to the characters pretty fast and the pages turned themselves.
The really short chapters were nice too. It felt like I would watch a tv show and every chapter is a scene.
This sure wasn't the last book I read about “Alex Cross” or from Patterson.
A complex start to a complex fantasy setting! Quite good! Maybe continuing with the series.
Amazing and touching. I soaked the pages in. I laughed and I shed some tiny manly tears. A beautiful book.
Although beautifully written most of the time, it isn't exactly my cup of tea. It feels too much like a play than a book. Which is spot on for the story, but hard to read for me. I really loved the first chapter though, which felt like a dance.
An awesome book. I loved the adventure and how it formed the kids to something new. I really loved the short story “Stud City” within the book too.
This is a book full of magic. Magic and stories. Magic and stories that could only take those forms in the head of a Boy's Life.
This book transported me right into the world of Cory. It's so perfectly written that I could really smell the air of Zephyr and could imagine what it would like to be a boy in this town. I laughed, cried and felt happiness with the characters.
It's really big and there are many side stories. But it isn't too much. A few of the magic things didn't get really explained, but that's perfectly fine. It's part of a boy's mind to see magic in ordinary things.
I'm torn between feeling happy and empty after finishing this. Empty because I'll really miss all those characters, but happy because the ending was beautiful.
Life goes on, but we'll never loose parts of the magic that surrounded us as we were kids. If we allow it.
5 stars. Perfect.
I guess everything had already been said about this book. Fun, entertaining and fun :P
Oh boy that was awesome. I have never read something like this. It probably helps that my interest in space is pretty high, but this book set the bar high for other more scientific sci fi books. The descriptions how everything in Rama looks and works are breathtaking. I really could see it before my eyes. The whole idea of the first contact going differently than expected was nice. 5 stars.
Got this in my recommendations. After flying through the reviews, I saw that I must be the only male ever considering reading that book. I did it anyway and wasn't disappointed. Only a few things damped it:
-A few scenes I just could't relate to as a male. (Like reading for the 3rd time how cute Henry is looking and so on)
-I thought the thing Taylor did those 5 summers ago was something so horrible, but wasn't really that much of a big deal in the end. (I mean the amount it gets hinted at, I even thought of bloody murder)
If you look past these minor things and considering that it must be pretty accurate for a female main protagonist, you get a powerful story about family and friends and what matters most in life.
All the characters were full of personality and charm, and I must admit that I maybe got some wet eyes at the end.
3 Stars are “liked it”. So yeah, even that I guess that I wasn't the main target audience...I liked it!
This blew me away. It's like 3 books in one. A documentary about life in the 50s/60s, a very touching love story and a history book. A must read for everyone.
What I thought would be a quick story, turned out to be a full grown complex novel with fully detailed characters.
In the beginning I felt torn between thinking: “Why is this boy harassing this old guy?” and “What's wrong with that old guy?”.
In the middle I could understand more of the relationship between those too, but I still don't get the changing of the characters. Not 100%.
Why did they go on and done what they've done? This plus some boring chapters and the fact that I thought this book would never end and dragged along endlessly, gives it 3/5 for me.
Holy Jebediah! I love King. Every time I go back to him I'm instantly trapped inside the story. Finished this in 2 days. An awesome story with a perfect mix of point of view and reports. I just wanted to know how this ends and kept going and going.
Carrie is such a strong character right from the opening scene. I felt pity and happiness for her.
Great book!