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Leaving_Marx

Leaving_Marx@wyrmsign.org

Joined 2 years, 7 months ago

Printer, anarchist, illustrator, & enthusiast of the printed word.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I want everyone to read it and think of it often ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book, fun, and uncomplicated ⭐⭐⭐ Good, feel complicated about if I wasted my time ⭐⭐+⬇️ I hate read this

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2025 Reading Goal

53% complete! Leaving_Marx has read 16 of 30 books.

reviewed Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #4)

John Scalzi: Zoe's Tale (2008) 3 stars

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?

I ask because …

A 4th book in this series???

3 stars

This book follows up to the old man's war world and it felt a bit like I was working to finish it for the sake of completion.

It is the 3rd book told again from the perspective of the main characters daughter. It literally just covers the same timeline and plot points with a different narrator.

+: sometimes it read like space opera mean girls. It centers a women in the stories. There is a few moments that Zoe's perspective tells part of the story that didn't come up in the 3rd book.

-: You know the plot, twists and turns. It wasn't a good enough book for a second run.

reviewed Embassytown by China Miéville

China Miéville: Embassytown (2012, Pan Publishing, PAN) 3 stars

Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.

Avice is an immerser, …

Best book I read of 2024

5 stars

This was a really fantastic novel and I think you should read it. With a heavy hand in world building and exploration of linguistics and translation this novel gave so many hints and tidbits of the world without creating a complete picture which left you will so many paintings of these worlds with just enough to have you pondering the world just outside the frame.

It is really impressive the amount of world building that was built into a standalone novel, I would read anything, including fan fiction, created in the universe after finishing it.

The story itself and it's interactions were fantastic. There was many times I was left feeling so alien from the valleys that divided characters that I truly believed that there was alien consciousnesses so different than ours, rather than a metaphor for human struggles.

The plot was very hard to predict and kept my rapt …

Adrian Tchaikovsky: The Doors of Eden (2020) 4 stars

From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden is an extraordinary …

A Standalone a.t. novel

4 stars

Content warning Very general spoilers