i think i'm too overwhelmed to really write anything about this book rn, it's too much. spätestens ab der hälfte war ich auch nicht mehr wirklich ausreichend aufnahmefähig (there is so, so much going on in this text, and my memory not nearly good enough to keep all strands in my head at once)
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stuebinm started reading Jacques le Fataliste et son maître by Denis Diderot
Jacques le Fataliste et son maître by Denis Diderot
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (French: Jacques le fataliste et son maître) is a novel by Denis Diderot, written …
stuebinm finished reading The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota) by Ada Palmer
The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota) by Ada Palmer
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. …
stuebinm started reading The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota) by Ada Palmer
The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota) by Ada Palmer
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. …
stuebinm finished reading Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota #4)
stuebinm commented on Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota #4)
Content warning somewhat deep into the book by now
it's so weird having someone speak as Ceaser without the quasi-latin sentence structure
stuebinm commented on Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota #4)
this is probably the only sci-fi work i have ever read which has a solid page of text entirely in latin (and then has the gall to make that horribly weird latin, since most of it was presumably added three-words-a-time over centuries, for complicated in-universe regions)
stuebinm started reading Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota #4)
where's my mycroft :/
stuebinm finished reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb Trilogy)
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb Trilogy)
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more …
stuebinm started reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb Trilogy)
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some …
This book has been recommended by an uncommonly disperate set of people; curious to see what that is about
stuebinm finished reading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #1)
as already mentioned, this book is just so much
stuebinm commented on Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #1)
that whole bit about the legally untranslatable latin dialogue, except one of the people present also speaks unreasonably obscure latin nobody else is used to, so the narrator reasons it's fine to at least give translations in 'normal' (in-world modern) latin, and then his anonymous editor suddenly inserts a paragraph saying "oh yeah i translated the latin but i suck at it & did so in secret from the others, so not sure how accurate it is" is still so absurdly over-the-top funny to me (all three versions are in the text, so one can compare)
even better since the editor clearly attempted to translate the obscure version of everything, not the narrator's "reasonable" gloss, so there's lots of overly-literal translations of idioms and such
also the latin speakers exchange a couple sentences beetween them in english without putting in much effort, so the grammar leaks and everyone else is …
that whole bit about the legally untranslatable latin dialogue, except one of the people present also speaks unreasonably obscure latin nobody else is used to, so the narrator reasons it's fine to at least give translations in 'normal' (in-world modern) latin, and then his anonymous editor suddenly inserts a paragraph saying "oh yeah i translated the latin but i suck at it & did so in secret from the others, so not sure how accurate it is" is still so absurdly over-the-top funny to me (all three versions are in the text, so one can compare)
even better since the editor clearly attempted to translate the obscure version of everything, not the narrator's "reasonable" gloss, so there's lots of overly-literal translations of idioms and such
also the latin speakers exchange a couple sentences beetween them in english without putting in much effort, so the grammar leaks and everyone else is left confused
it is just so much
stuebinm finished reading Das Gold von Caxamalca. by Jakob Wassermann
found this lying around on the street & thought it might be interesting
(admittedly, the absurd narrative speed evens out a bit in the later books; i guess there's a reason why it's the first one that she called 'too like the lightning [which doth cease to be, ere one can say, it lightens]')
stuebinm commented on Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #1)
annoyingly, this book is still in the category of "almost everything i could possibly say about it has at least essay-length", and i don't have the time or motivation to write essays 🙈
a fun side observation tho: it moves slowly, not in the sense that i'm on page 155 and it's barely evening of the second day described, but in that reappearing characters usually reappear exactly where they were left before the narration switched focus on someplace else, and there are absolutely no "they did $things in the meantime"-passages anywhere — everything is part of the main trunk of the narration grinding along at dizzying (but slow) speeds, without ever taking a moment for breath (while Mycroft repeatedly hits you on the head with the entire canon of 'western' philosophy, and being unnecessarily horny about it all)