joachim wants to read L'étoile de mer by Popier Popol
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Commandé ce matin chez ma libraire préférée. Vivement la semaine prochaine @Popierpopol@piaille.fr @editionsgrevis@mastodon.top
I really like how this world works, the magic, the gods, the attention to detail, and the way humans deal with all that. Also, a great cast of characters and a worthy conclusion.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
It's quite long, but I enjoy the pure serial-ness of the writing. It was published in a newspaper, so you had to keep the readers coming for more, I guess. Will anything will ever be resolved? I still have more than half the book to find out.
Samit Basu doesn’t lack humour and imagination, which make this story very enjoyable. His previous books have mixed cultural and political elements of Indian life with fantasy and science fiction, enriching old westerner tropes and bringing new life to genres that have for too long been only explored by white dudes.
The heart of the story is the question: if you were living in a world menaced by sea rise and dominated by ultra rich factions, and if you found a magic lamp with a genie, what would you ask them? Of course you’d have first to find said magic lamp, and fight your way to keep it when the whole power structure wants it too. Luckily in this scenario you’d be a mischievous monkey robot with delusions of grandeur…
A young storyteller must embrace his own skills—and the power of stories—to save a nation from economic ruin, in the …
Arrested on accusations of witchcraft and treason, Chant finds himself trapped in a cold, filthy jail cell in a foreign …
Le style de ce deuxième volume est plus supportable que celui du premier, quoique j’aie quand même eu des problèmes de ponctuation et d’espaces. C’est une sorte de Rashōmon : on redécouvre la même histoire que le précédent volume, depuis le point de vue de Benvenuto, le héros de Gagner la Guerre. Comme le narrateur est différent, le style est différent. Pas plus mal, mais au final je reste un peu sur ma faim—trop peu de choses sont racontées qui font avancer l’intrigue. Tout la complique en revanche, c’est intéressant mais… je veux aller plus loin :)
Bref, on verra l’an prochain pour la suite, j’imagine ?