I skipped through about 1/3 of this book because it just dragged on and on… and on. Perhaps I’ve read too many Rincewind novels in a row and spoiled my wizard appetite. Got to the end out of pure spite and I’m glad I’ll never have to read it again.
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Niko reviewed The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
Review of 'The Last Continent' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
I skipped through about 1/3 of this book because it just dragged on and on… and on. Perhaps I’ve read too many Rincewind novels in a row and spoiled my wizard appetite. Got to the end out of pure spite and I’m glad I’ll never have to read it again.
Niko rated Interesting Times: 4 stars
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (18))
"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially …
Niko rated Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Trilogy, No 5): 4 stars
Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Trilogy, No 5) by Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Trilogy of Five, #5)
In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on …
Niko rated So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: 3 stars
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty …
Niko rated Life, the Universe, and Everything: 3 stars
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy …
Eric by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #9)
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be …
Niko rated The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: 4 stars
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
In the beginning the universe was created...this made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a …
Niko rated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 3 stars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's trilogy -- bk. 1.)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy …
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #5)
When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned …
Niko reviewed The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (The Poppy War, #1)
A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired …
Review of 'The Poppy War' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
This is a good book. It's well-written with a solid plot and I found the characters interesting (if a but one-dimensional, but this is the first in a series so I let it slide). I get why people give it praise!
... but I really dislike militaristic narratives. I find them grating. I probably won't be continuing the series. It's not you, it's me.
This is a good book. It's well-written with a solid plot and I found the characters interesting (if a but one-dimensional, but this is the first in a series so I let it slide). I get why people give it praise!
... but I really dislike militaristic narratives. I find them grating. I probably won't be continuing the series. It's not you, it's me.
... but I really dislike militaristic narratives. I find them grating. I probably won't be continuing the series. It's not you, it's me.
Niko rated The Light Fantastic: 4 stars
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series. It was published …
Niko rated The Color of Magic: 4 stars
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #1)
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets …
Niko reviewed Last Emperox by John Scalzi
Review of 'Last Emperox' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Plodding plodding plodding and then WHOOOOSH suddenly the end of the Interdependency is upon us! I was gripped enough to need to know what happened next, but there's something about Scalzi's writing that sometimes makes his books feel... flat? Like fanfiction? I dunno. Anyway, this was fun.
Plodding plodding plodding and then WHOOOOSH suddenly the end of the Interdependency is upon us! I was gripped enough to need to know what happened next, but there's something about Scalzi's writing that sometimes makes his books feel... flat? Like fanfiction? I dunno. Anyway, this was fun.
Niko rated The Consuming Fire: 3 stars
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)
"The second, thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, …