Enno Rehling
This is the book in which the epic story becomes really epic. Haley's character development alone makes this five stars, the war is almost a sideshow to it, in my eyes.
Trying to read a time travel romp in a language I only barely understand is probably unfair to the material. The story did not appear very coherent, and I would be surprised if that improved with my comprehension of French.
This was a great piece of historical fiction, with well-formed characters and a compelling story. Excellent craftsmanship.
I cannot judge the quality of the adaptation, since I have never read the source material, but as a way to get the gist of what goes on in the story, this book was an enjoyable experience, and certainly a quicker read.
Oh happy day when the reward for the first kickstarter project I ever backed finally arrived, 3 years after the fact. After reading all the other books in the series to beef up on the story-so-far again, the last one turned out to be a very quick and enjoyable read, even if it fails to wrap up the story (we're going to need Rosenberg to write more strips and publish at least one more book for this). Not that I am complaining about his work with SFAM, mind, but I long for closure.
I haven't read Asterix since I was a teenager, and my memory may be foggy, but this just didn't seem to hold up to the quality of the old books.
This book felt very personal to me, touching and true. I see why others have compared this book to TFIOS, but this book affects me more. The main character is a very believable teen, and much of him reminds me of myself when I was around that age. We're on the same medication, and the book reminds me how lucky I was to have good surgery options.
I've never had to work illegally, but for me, this book still captured the anxiety of living and working in a foreign country with foreign rules, never really standing on solid ground. Also a reminder of the time I spent in temporary living arrangements, sharing apartments, and finding real friendships among the many new people you meet.
I gave up on this book without even making it half-way through, which is pretty rare for me.
This is the comic that made me learn Norwegian, and this book collects a lot of the strips from that period. Still holds up.
It's been a few years since I read the original novel, but this graphic novel seems very short in comparison? The drawings are stark, simplified, reduced, like the life in Gilead. At times they can be too much, such as Moira's feet, which are the stuff of my nightmares now.
Fun, but difficult. The dialect in this book is still a challenge for me, even after all this time in Norway. I didn't get all the jokes, but I am probably missing some necessary cultural background.
A collection of short stories in which Le Guin once again imagines alternative civilizations, or in one case an alternative history, with a strong feminist bend. My favorite of them was “Solitude”, about a girl who grows up on an alien planet studied by her mother, a Hainish observer, but ends up going so thoroughly native that she has trouble fitting into “normal” society again.
I've never lived the life of Scandinavian small town youth, but this seems like an honest account. A lot of unlikeable teenagers, though, which is one thing my teenage experience had in common.
The main character is in a band, and while there are parallels to Scott Pilgrim, there are no supernatural ex-boyfriends of Asian highschool girlfriends or video game references. Just bleak small-town realism, complete with kids driving souped up cars, sex and drinking at parties.
A very nice travelogue. Really makes me want to do a walking vacation like I did back when I was in school.
This was better than the first book, and I read it in a single sitting. Some fine character development that makes me want to know what happens next, but I guess this is where the series ended?
I already knew this story, but the art intrigued me, so I picked up the book. It's very pretty, really works well for the source material.
I had previously only read The Crow Road, and this book seemed very familiar in its themes. David Tennant is enjoyable to listen to.
Particle physics and multi-dimensional maths aren't what I'm looking for in my science fiction, and I felt very lost a bunch of times. But even then, it still managed to tell a fine story, once I got used to the idea that every other chapter would go way over my head, and all I could hope for was to get the general idea and what it meant for the overall quest the characters were on.
This collection of nearly a thousand pages containing every Gaston comic (or so it claims) took me two months to finish, but it was well worth it.
I had previously read Jennifer Government, and rated it highly, so I figured I'd give this book a shot. It's nothing like Jennifer, but a very compelling read. The basic conceit is clever, the characters are well-written, and it keeps you on the edge of your seat to the very end, with many twist, turns, and fake-outs. The non-chronological story telling can be a bit disorienting, probably especially so in the audiobook.