janbartosik

janbartosik, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Die Geschwister Oppermann aka The Oppermans by Lion Feuchtwanger.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/543760.The_Oppermanns

Have just finished the Czech translation. My second time with the Oppermann family, still strong reader experience after 30 years. Especially in the current climate of rising #antisemitism in the West.
Do grab it, you may find it surprisingly timeless.

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janbartosik, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Noumenon, The Noumenon Series by Marina J. Lostetter

https://bookwyrm.social/book/795050/s/noumenon

There and back again. In a similar vein like Aurora by
Kim Stanley Robinson, but with better ending.

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szilviavirag, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Who's your favourite Nobel Prize winning writer?
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Schnuckster, 8 months ago to bookstodon

Giving my brain a break with my next #book. #books #bookstodon @bookstodon 📖

appassionato, 8 months ago to bookstodon

Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.

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janbartosik, 8 months ago to bookstodon

Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim.

A must-read, no excuses.

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RanaldClouston, 9 months ago to bookstodon

#FinishedReading one of my absolute favourites as a child when I first got old enough to raid my parents' bookshelves, so a huge nostalgia hit for me in this. This is a classic 70s first contact #SciFi story and fortunately stands up great to re-reading as an adult, apart from the almost total lack of female characters, which I notice these days but I guess didn't concern me as a preteen boy. Still, inventive, surprising, and lots of fun. #Bookstodon @bookstodon #LarryNiven #JerryPournelle

janbartosik, 9 months ago to bookstodon

The Godfather.

What is there to say about this classic?

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janbartosik, 9 months ago to scifi

Time to get Pohl'd again. The Merchants of Venus it is.

#scifi @scifi #heechee

janbartosik, 9 months ago to scifi

Demon in White, The Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/743470/s/demon-in-white

A survivalist's guide to interstellar conflicts of gigantic proportions. Lord Marlowe, you weasel!
Two more books in the series, can't wait ⏲️

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janbartosik, 9 months ago to fantasy

Fatherland by Robert Harris

A Goodreads link, this time only: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56842.Fatherland

Alt history fan's must-read.
There are 1984, 2001 and 2022 movies about a certain event in #Berlin which are related and worth watching.

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willelm, 9 months ago to bookstodon

Here are my #13books . This was much more challenging than I thought it would be and I continue to think I'm missing books I should be including.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle -Murakami
Dune -Herbert
Hyperion -Simmons
Man's Search for Meaning -Frankl
Under the Dome -King
What is the What -Eggers
Nation -Pratchett
Maus -Spiegelman
American Gods -Gaiman
Annihilation -VanderMeer
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell -Clarke
The Once and Future King -White
What If -Munroe

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janbartosik, 10 months ago to scifi

Eyes of the Void, book 2 of The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Faster paced and more alien-y than book 1.
AT absolutely must elaborate on the Essiel in the sequel, I insist!

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janbartosik, 10 months ago to scifi

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

https://bookwyrm.social/book/129233/s/vagabonds

Struggled with this one.
The corrupt free-for-all Earth vs. regulated, yet just society on Mars...
Is the author comparing western societies with the Chinese one? Can Chinese writers even question Chinese things?

#mars #earth #china #west

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janbartosik, 10 months ago to scifi

Is there a #scifi story where the Martians are not an austere, reserved, spartan, militarized, conscientious and super techy bunch of people?

#Mars #books #amreading

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janbartosik, 10 months ago to bookstodon

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

https://bookwyrm.social/book/577091/s/half-a-king

Well, not that I didn't finish it in three days, it reads well. But it is half an Abercrombie compared to the First Law books 🤷‍♂️

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janbartosik, 10 months ago to bookstodon

Diaspora by Greg Egan

https://bookwyrm.social/book/6920/s/diaspora

Mrs Kozuch is my new favourite fictional theoretical physicist!
An absolute must-read, imho.

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janbartosik, 11 months ago to bookstodon

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

https://bookwyrm.social/book/256196/s/station-eleven

This was a surprising book for me. Struggled a bit in the beginning, but then got completely absorbed.
A nomadic performer's life in the after-apocalypse world without the gruesomeness we (too often?) get to experience in modern stories.

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janbartosik, 11 months ago to bookstodon

Shards of Earth, The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

It has not been destroyed, it's been architected!
AT is a prolific writer and this has been an enjoyable book by the man. Not in the vein of Children of Time, but good still.

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janbartosik, 11 months ago to bookstodon

Have never really read anything about #Freemasonry, so let's get all secretive, exclusive and behind the curtain ominously powerful!

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janbartosik, 1 year ago to bookstodon

So, there's a #tvshow based on The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen coming!

My inner bookworm tells me to stay away from it to spare myself another "book to TV show" disappointment. But, one never knows :)

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23168277

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14404618/

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#reading #kindle #knihy #fiction