Powerful, engaging drama detailing the setup and coverup around the famous nuclear disaster, well-acted but I wish it had original russian dialogue instead of english with british accents.
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Powerful, engaging drama detailing the setup and coverup around the famous nuclear disaster, well-acted but I wish it had original russian dialogue instead of english with british accents.
Bujold brings back some of the darkness and sadness that so enticed me originally in this recently-written Vorkosigan Saga entry, but marries that darkness to the light comedic stylings that define the majority of the saga, resulting in a quick, fun, exciting, and unique entry.
Tremendous, brilliant masterpiece, but deeply harsh, made harsher by contrast with its many comedic moments.
After this my third watch of the entire David Simon classic, all I can really add is that it really rewards multiple viewings, as the depth and complexity of its characters unfurls like a flower.
I haven’t read a book about a video game in a while, and picked this up more for Watts completionism than anything else, and while I guess he does elevate the material to some degree, it’s pretty boring and two dimensional, consisting mostly of running and explosions and not a ton else.
I just can’t read this much about Iowa.
This entry deep in Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga manages to interleave some extremely piercing insights on self-esteem and love with some very fun romcom hijinks, without ever getting annoyingly cheesy - one of her best works.
It’s gotta be hard to write a history book about a CIA officer, since the available research is so lacking, and it really shows - this history of Robert Ames is overly vague and scantily sourced, and can’t decide if it’s a broad overview of the Lebanese civil war or a biography of this one spy’s life or some weird mix of the two.