Goodreads page My rating: 4 out of 5 My review: When I was watching Black Hawk Down (the movie) several years ago, I hadn’t been aware there is a book as well. By the time I started reading the book, I forgot everything about the movie except the outline and the feeling of constant confusion. So first, the good parts: Black Hawk Down is a great piece of storytelling that can make you feel in the middle of it all. …

Goodreads page My rating: 2 out of 5 My review: I am not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this I guess. It reads as a very crude alien encyclopedia. And suggestion it was presumably written by a janitor sounds as a really *bad excuse for the sloppiness. If you want to have an interesting take on first encounter book I can recommend Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson. …

Goodreads page My rating: 5 out of 5 My review: Snow Crash reminded me of William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum at once. It’s simpler than both in the language department (which means it’s readable on first try for me) but much more complex and structured in many other ways. I have so many notes and clipping from it…each second sentence is a gem of potentially real historical information. …

Goodreads page My rating: 3 out of 5 My review: This has been a fairly short but fun read and a new take on aliens coming to earth. What if they truly are benevolent and our main character is a game designer and retro-gamer-reviewer. The game reviews actually have a part to play in the story (but not too much). There is a little bit of adventuring, but this is mostly (to me) an interesting thought about how would/could society deal with a drastic change of knowing there there are many other intelligent life forms in the universe and what the impact would be on culture (for better or worse). …

Goodreads page My rating: 4 out of 5 My review: There’s not enough good things I can write about this book. It feel sincere. It feels true. Yes, it’s sort of a cancer book. But it’s not a book about dying. It’s a book about living. About feeling. About being a decent person regardless if you are a great person that is going to be remembered for ages. It is a book about being a grenade. …

Počet porcií: 6 Čas na prípravu: 30 minutes Čas varenia: 2 hours Ingredients 0.75 kg bravčová krkovička cca 1.5kg kyslej kapusty 1 stredná cibuľa sladká červená paprika bravčová masť rasca soľ čierne korenie Directions Scedíme a pokrájame kyslú kapustu na menšie kúsky. Dáme ju bokom Na jemno pokrájame cibuľu Na bravčovej masti spražíme cibuľu aby sa nespálila Keď je cibuľa mäkká pridáme 1.5-2 polievkové lýžice červenej papriky Po minúte pridáme pokrájane mäso. …

Počet porcií: 2 Čas na prípravu: 20 minutes Čas varenia: 30 minutes Ingrediencie 4 rohlíky 2 vajíčko mlieko 2-3 jablká 1 polievková lyžica práškového cukru škorica vanilkový cukor maslo (1/8 bloku) strúhanka (na vysypanie) Postup Oddeliť bielko a žľtok z oboch vajec Žĺtka vymiešať s práškovým cukrom a maslom v hrnčeku Zaliať mliekom cca do pol hrnčeka Rožky pokrájať na kocky cca 2x2-3x3 cm a v miske ich premiešať so zmesou žĺtok Vyšľahať bielka a opatrne ich vmiesiť do zmesy rohlíkov Zapekaciu misku vysypať strúhankou alebo hrubou múkou 1/2 zmesi dať do zapekacej misy. …

Goodreads page My rating: 3 out of 5 My review: It is quite obvious from the beginning that Foundation was conceived as several short stories and later turned into a book. However there is a common theme in all of those stories: Averting impeding catastrophe for a newly formed colony of Galactic Empire - Foundation. A colony whose creator, Hari Seldon is a psychohistorian - a statistician that can predict changes in societies of large scale. …

Goodreads page My rating: 4 out of 5 My review: A worthy continuation of Ender’s journey. In a way it actually makes Ender’s Game better in that it creates proper reason for him to continue living. A powerful thought to speak the lives of the dead, as they lived them. The books keeps you guessing in some ways and in others it is crystal clear and the characters in the book are the only ones guessing. …

Goodreads page My rating: 4 out of 5 My review: Sadly, I’ve seen the movie first. But even then, knowing the ending I enjoyed the book. It was a bit hard to follow it, just like the movie. The main characters are saying the ugly things we all want to say from time to time but we are afraid to admit it to ourselves. There are so many memorable parts that I am hard-pressed to pick a quote, but for some reason I liked this: …