choconougat commented on Doctor Who by Alex Kingston
She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips...
1939, New York. …
oh just realised I forgot to click finish it... I finished, it's okay, it's pretty decent a detective/fantasy story.
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I am a very nagging person, a fan of terry pratchett, former fan of gaiman who might come back to him after I'm done with pratchett, life-long sherlockian, and some other labels I can't remember at the moment or haven't got yet. I also read layman maths books sometimes to try to save my hopeless academic writing.
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Mark annual reread.
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Mark annual reread.
choconougat rated Night Watch: 5 stars
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. …
choconougat rated Thief of time: 5 stars
Thief of time by Terry Pratchett
In Discworld, time is a resource managed by the highly capable Monks of History. Everybody wants more time, which is …
choconougat commented on Alice by Heart by Steven Sater
I had expectations. I can only say that probably because I didn't like Alice in Wonderland anyway, so I didn't like this much either. But I can feel that a nice stage version of this may be good. It would be the difference between the obc spring awakening and the deaf west revival of spring awakening (mentioning spring awakening because of the author(s))
choconougat rated Alice by Heart: 3 stars
choconougat commented on Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
A fantasy tale follows the experiences of Discworld, a flat, circular planet that travels through …
Marking a reread. uh so good.
choconougat rated Small Gods: 5 stars
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
A fantasy tale follows the experiences of Discworld, a flat, circular planet that travels through deep space on the backs …
choconougat commented on The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It spans …
难以置信，前一本the sea the sea是男的只有在觉得女的喜欢他的时候特别心思细腻想象力丰富，于是我决定换一下回到熟悉的Hardy, 结果Hardy: 男的给自己隔三岔五移情别恋找个理由说是我命中注定的爱人换了个躯壳；然后因为错过了一个情人转而二十年后追她女儿，没成，转而二十年后再追外孙女儿，。。。。。。。。我笑很大声，thomas hardy, everyone（clap clap）. 外孙女儿跟他订婚之后听到坦白时：你追过我妈？还有我外婆？你追过我great grandmother吗？？ 啊笑死我了thomas hardy
choconougat commented on The Pearl (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
A novel.
Content warning just angry rant tbh
This is an extremely fun one because not only is the book very infuriating / traumatising, but I also got doubly infuriated by the analysis of the book, because WHAT are they saying are the themes of the book??? What do you mean he lived a happy and simple life before everything? He lived as the dirt at the bottom of the society before everything okay, well in fact he was not IN the society where it counts, he did not exist in the eyes of the white people, none of them natives did, and it is Intentionally Kept that way, they kept them separated to exploit them, and the only way they were integrated into the modern society was through religion, which was to make it EASIER to control them and exploit them some more, I mean.... you cannot tell me that way of living is happy, why don't you go live like that if it's happy??? If he's given a choice, well he WAS given a choice, would he live like that? Well his hopes say he wouldn't. Those rich white people tried very hard to take the choice away from him. I don't blame him for any murdering he did, I mean ... they came to kill him and his family and steal their hope, is it very wrong to kill them in mostly-self-defence? heh. I feel if anything, author was trying to say the pearl can bring evil and misfortune, which he might be doing in the last 20% of the story, but imo, the pearl just brings out more what's wrong with the society / social structure / the crowd, and less what's wrong in this individual who should have been lucky to have the pearl.
Overall, very good observation, and very good for observing the state-of-the-art.
choconougat commented on Moby Dick, Or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
All I remember from the book is He Really Loves Whales (x).
No, there are great social commentaries, I think that's the most fun part for me, cuz I really wasn't here for whale encyclopedia. And his cannibal friend is fun. I think the captain lost a leg to the whale and so was determined to hunt the whale, I wonder whether it has anything to do with peter pan's captain hook.
There is also a quote about artists are like gods that I really enjoyed, because one day they can make a man a wooden leg from wood and the next day they can make him a casket with the wood, they are capricious and are only concerned with aesthetics.
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Dunno what happened with this book record but the title is gone. This comment is just to mark the title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
choconougat quoted Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
.... that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
— Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
This is literally the last sentence of the whole book, lmao.
真的很意外一个真的非常狗血家庭伦理剧的剧情最后一段搞得十分jvj，但是我感觉尽管Hardy sort of原谅他了可是我没有！也不能说我没有，就是我觉得这个人就是努力地做个好人了，但是实在是很大意，人就是一不留神自私一下就会害死别人。我觉得最后送人小鸟这个做法就非常summarising the person, it's like a good intention but that is so careless and shortsighted....
choconougat rated The Shepherd's Crown: 4 stars
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
The Shepherd's Crown is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death in March …