Reviews and Comments

So I think I'm going to like this, with some exceptions like I think there might be 0 women on this ship.

But uhm...... they just..... they're on a planet that they know is dangerous in some unknown way. And that's why most of the people aren't allowed off the ship yet. And the few that go outside for some measurements? They go "no protective suits, oxygen mask is enough". And then they measure what the atmosphere is made from and if it's radioactive. I mean, all the measurements are fine. But still. This seems like really bad strategy to me!

It's again this super confusing mix of concepts that I understand and concepts that I'm quite sure I don't. This time with a planet! And another perspective that I feel the same about! Soooo it's a lot of fun..... in a really distanced dry way.

I finished this a long time ago and looked it a lot

This is really really cool so far

Es ist das erste Was-ist-was-Buch, das ich im neuen Stil ohne die Fragenkästchen lese. Finde es hat ein bisschen unnötiges Blabla, aber immer noch genug Infos. Text vor Foto-Hintergrund find ich halt unnötig anstrengend zu lesen. Ich hab sicher einige Sachen gelernt.

Dieses Buch ist so viel weniger aufregend als sein Titel. Nach dem Erste-Hilfe-Teil bin ich nun im Katastrophen-Teil. Und der hat tatsächlich ein paar spannende Fakten aus den letzten 20 Jahren, die ich nicht aus 20 Jahre alten Kinderbüchern bekommen kann. Aber leider. Ich hör das Hörbuch. Und. Der Tonfall in dem es gelesen wird macht mich fertig! Es ist dieser "wir reden über etwas sehr bedauerliches"-Tonfall, der klingt als wär er keine drei Schritte vom Weinen entfernt, den Leute aber einfach nur verwenden, um klarzustellen, dass sie die Tragik der Ereignisse begriffen haben. Ich halt den schon in echt nicht gut aus, aber da sind es wenigstens üblicherweise nur wenige Sätze. Ein ganzes Buch so? Ich bin mir ehrlich nicht sicher, ob ich das pack. (Angebracht wäre meiner Meinung nach übrigens großteils ein nerdiger "gut zu wissen!"-Tonfall.)

Yep it's actually pretty interesting

I enjoyed it. It has a good balance of making the myths sound exciting, and explaining why they're just myths. I didn't go looking for inaccuracies, but ofc I looked up the cat, so: it says Onzas were proven to exist in 1986.

This is a realistic-sounding text on onzas, saying there's no reason to believe onzas are their own species www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0327-93832008000100015

And this is the article that says the 1986 onza was a puma, based on it's DNA (pdf) www.nativefishlab.net/library/textpdf/19135.pdf

It's the kind of story I'd like to follow a bit further. Also, I'd love some more exploration of how the reality and the worship are connected. But I was happy as it was.

So, I think this is worth reading simply because Britney Spears is someone media loves to be very cruel to, and it's good to read something actually coming from her.

It is a very chronological memoir, and during some phases, the present-day commentary annoyed me a bit. But I think I might not have given Spears enough credit while reading – I think some of the comments that seem meek and understated might actually be a bit sarcastic.

I was a bit puzzled why Spears put so much focus on how prayer and a telepathic connection to her fans saved here, and not at all on someone putting the story out there (Wikipedia says "a voicemail message from a source who claimed to be a former member of Spears' legal team"). But eventually I concluded it's probably for legal reasons and also none of my business.

I definitely learned a few new things. Some other things I suspect are maybe outdated.

Es ist ok, ruhig und ausreichend unterhaltsam.

Most stories have some kind of gruesome supernatural component, I really enjoyed that. One I thought started out looking pretty ableist but then it took a turn that I also thought was cool but probably didn't really make up for the "blindness as a metaphor" thing.

Uhm this is pretty cool so far but I'm not sure if I'm in the mood for it