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nathys_8's reviews
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challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I finished this book in two days! That's how good it was. I had read his previous book before and this one didn't disappoint. It is quite an eye-opener and realistic look on life, past, present and future. Everything he said may be true but I believe the hard part is putting it into practice.
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Extremely informative and can also be triggering if you belong to one of the "sides" from colonization. I liked how he showed both sides of the coin, with theories from different scientists. None of it can be 100% accurate but he comes quite close to give you a proper idea of how life was for the indigenous communities before and after colonization.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
It wasn't bad, it answered the questions I had about colonization and unfair advantages of some nations, I learned things I didn't know, but sometimes the book got too technical and I got lost in the details, which made it hard to get back to the main idea of each chapter.
informative
reflective
fast-paced
It is an interesting book. It was fast an easy to read, great quotes that really make you think. What I liked the most is that you can apply the majority of the rules to your discipline or field, not necessarily to martial arts.
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
It was an easier book to read in French (as a french student) but the story which is supposed to be a Sherlock Holmes type of story where you are the detective and try to find the guilty one made it quite weird and hard to follow, in the end I just read every "clue" in order and figured it out but it was not enjoyable I would say. However as a book just to practice reading in French, it was good enough.
adventurous
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved how descriptive the war scenes were and how detailed the talks between characters were.
It was a bit complicated to follow all the characters in the Iliad since there were so many heroes and fights.
The Odyssey was my favorite of the two, it was easier to follow and you realize truly what kind of person he was, very different as how he is described in the Iliad.
I would have liked a more conclusive end to both books, they finish sort of hanging in the air especially the Iliad, even though by reading the Odyssey you can kind of piece together what happens.
All in all I loved both books and I am looking forward to see how the movie of Christopher Nolan will depict the Odyssey.
It was a bit complicated to follow all the characters in the Iliad since there were so many heroes and fights.
The Odyssey was my favorite of the two, it was easier to follow and you realize truly what kind of person he was, very different as how he is described in the Iliad.
I would have liked a more conclusive end to both books, they finish sort of hanging in the air especially the Iliad, even though by reading the Odyssey you can kind of piece together what happens.
All in all I loved both books and I am looking forward to see how the movie of Christopher Nolan will depict the Odyssey.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was one of her best book yet in the Vampire Chronicles series. A lot of questions were answer, a lot of back story from each character was explained and the main character of Lestat became indeed the hero we were all waiting for him to be.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
It is incredibly informative, and surprising on the fact that we don't take sleep more seriously. I definitely recommend it, but as an audio book, reading it can cause you to leave it halfway read, since the pace is very slow.
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
It was a challenging read, it is "hopeful" at the end, but the fact that the book was written in 2020 and zwe are five years in and nothing has changed leaves me with a sense of despair. It is of course eye-opening to all the things that contribute to Climate Change besides the ones we already knew about, but as mentioned in the book we as individual alone cannot solve the problem, we need corporations and governments to change their ways and no matter how many protests or boycotts or bad press we try to give them, they end up winning in the end.
dark
funny
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Batman comics only get better with age. This special edition with author comments and how the illustrations were done make it even better. But the story most of all is great, we have a nice origin story and a deeper understanding of how the Joker views society, that in the world we live in at the moment is something really perplexing to think about, because he might not be wrong, even if the original story was written in the 80's.