This is the best Scarlett Thomas book I've read so far (I loved The End of Mr Y as well, was not quite so keen on Our Tragic Universe - it had its good points, but not enough to outweigh the directionless mish mash of a story).I love the idea of it being set in a toy company. I love the protagonist...
This is the best Scarlett Thomas book I've read so far (I loved The End of Mr Y as well, was not quite so keen on Our Tragic Universe - it had its good points, but not enough to outweigh the directionless mish mash of a story).I love the idea of it being set in a toy company. I love the protagonist...
Po przeczytaniu opisu książki, pomyślałam, że będzie to przyjemna lektura z miłością i podróżami w czasie w tle (tak przynajmniej sugerowała okładka). Wspomniane elementy pojawiły się jednak dopiero na ostatnich 20 stronach. A tak to książkę zapełniają albo naukowe opisy albo wulgaryzmy, przez które...
I really wanted to enjoy this book more, but ultimately I just wasn't feeling it. The SFnal element was handled so clunkily, it felt like a poorly-reinvented wheel. It's too bad, because I was initially impressed by the protagonist's intellectual characterization, which is a rare thing to see done w...
You know how you sometimes have one idea of what a book's going to be like, and then you start reading it, and it turns out to be totally different? Yeah, that was me and this book. Not that that was a bad thing at all, it just took me completely by surprise. I had expected a fun fantasy - not an al...
Me ha gustado muchísimo. La mezcla entre enigmas, misterios, códigos en clave....Simplemente perfecto. Muy recomendado si te gusta hacer de "detective" y también si te gustan las matemáticas y su historia. Es muy entretenido y terminas completamente metido en la historia.
Occasionally, a book comes along that I really don't want to end. I mean really. I'll do everything to avoid the end. I'll read a chapter one week, wait another week, and then read another chapter. Or speed through 4-5 chapters on a Saturday night and then put the book away for two weeks. Maybe...
How to start? This was one of the most confusing books I have ever read, it was also one of the best books I have read this year. It was amazing in this crazy madness kind of way. It will be hard to review it because it was messy, great and so strange.Ariel is a woman fascinated by a lot of things. ...
Thanks to Megan Milks for turning me on to Scarlett Thomas, who's so great. Maybe I enjoyed this so much because I worked at an evil neo-liberal web development agency at the turn of the century, but I think anyone who's critical of advertising and likes cryptography (and mysteries) will love this b...
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