creamfresh rated Soul Music: 5 stars
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the sixteenth book in the Discworld series, first published …
i need something lighthearted now
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Nice to meet you! I'm creamfresh and I like science fiction, especially cyberpunk, but I also love the Discworld series. I'm always ready to broaden my horizon with non-fiction, especially when I don't agree with the politics of a given book. Some classics might also slip through. I am trying to get into the habit of writing reviews for the books I've read and I will amend some for the books I already marked as read. My native Language is German, but I always prefer reading the original version, so most of my books will be in English. I also read Manga, but I will only add the first volume of a series if I finish it, because i can't be bothered otherwise.
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creamfresh finished reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the sixteenth book in the Discworld series, first published …
creamfresh wants to read Synners by Pat Cadigan
creamfresh wants to read The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the …
creamfresh wants to read Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
creamfresh started reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the sixteenth book in …
creamfresh reviewed Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque
Zum hundertsten Jahrestag des Kriegsbeginns 1914: sämtliche Werke von Erich Maria Remarque zum Ersten Weltkrieg, …
The challenge of staying human in times of unimaginable chaos and darkness
5 stars
creamfresh finished reading Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque
Zum hundertsten Jahrestag des Kriegsbeginns 1914: sämtliche Werke von Erich Maria Remarque zum Ersten Weltkrieg, …
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creamfresh started reading Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque
Zum hundertsten Jahrestag des Kriegsbeginns 1914: sämtliche Werke von Erich Maria Remarque zum Ersten Weltkrieg, durchgesehen und in neuer Ausstattung. …
creamfresh finished reading Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
creamfresh set a goal to read 16 books in 2023
creamfresh started reading Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
I expect that by the time I'm finished with this, I will have picked up the lute and gotten myself a patron, so that I may play in many a pubs and halls, to entertain everyone with beautiful renditions of anglo saxon poems of the eighth century.
creamfresh finished reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman sieht gut aus, ist gut erzogen und intelligent. Tagsüber sitzt er in seinem …
What a read. Man, I thought I knew what to expect.
I can say that I liked many parts of it. I also believe that it was well executed.
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creamfresh started reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman sieht gut aus, ist gut erzogen und intelligent. Tagsüber sitzt er in seinem …
I really liked the movie and I have only heard good things about the book.
I have borrowed this one from my brother, so I will be reading the German version.
creamfresh reviewed Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) by William Gibson (The Neuromancer Trilogy)
Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in …
Another look into the world of Neuromancer: hackers, mercs and corporations
5 stars
Lovely read, recommended for those that liked Neuromancer and those that tried to like it. It works standalone and might be worth a try if, like me, you had trouble getting through the first part.
Three stories, that seem unrelated at first but interweave beautifully towards the end, each contributing to the satisfying ending. Each story expands on a different part of the retro futuristic vision Gibson established in Neuromancer. We explore different locations in America (mainly the sprawl of the east coast, between Boston and New York), Paris, Brussels and Earth's orbit, through the eyes of a newbie hacker, a mercenary and an art curator.
In a way the world feels more grounded than in Neuromancer, while the themes are even more esoteric. Gibson foregoes technical feasibility in favour of something that could be described as cyber-magic. Sure, you could potentially try to explain how jockeys establish some kind …
Lovely read, recommended for those that liked Neuromancer and those that tried to like it. It works standalone and might be worth a try if, like me, you had trouble getting through the first part.
Three stories, that seem unrelated at first but interweave beautifully towards the end, each contributing to the satisfying ending. Each story expands on a different part of the retro futuristic vision Gibson established in Neuromancer. We explore different locations in America (mainly the sprawl of the east coast, between Boston and New York), Paris, Brussels and Earth's orbit, through the eyes of a newbie hacker, a mercenary and an art curator.
In a way the world feels more grounded than in Neuromancer, while the themes are even more esoteric. Gibson foregoes technical feasibility in favour of something that could be described as cyber-magic. Sure, you could potentially try to explain how jockeys establish some kind of, potentially lethal, neural link with the cyberspace, but it works just fine within the story. Really, this is not for you if you prefer long technical info-dumps.
This is book is definitely one of my SF favorites.