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Ladataan... The Mallet of Loving CorrectionTekijä: John Scalzi
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I love reading Scalzi's Whatever, one of my favourite blogs. And as a collection of the blog, I liked this book too. It includes some of my favourite posts of John's on writing, science fiction and geek culture and some of those which doesn't really fall into my interest circles. But it was definitely a good read and will keep it on my Kindle's drive to come back time to time. Reading this can be somewhat depressing, but just with the bits talking about elections and Obama, and how the Democrats have the vote from then on because of demographic changes. Nonetheless, I like reading Scalzi's blog, so I like this book, too. I actually haven't read his fiction yet, even though I do have his Redshirts... Well, that was a thing I read. Mallet is a collection of blog posts from Scalzi's blog the Whatever, from 2008-2012. I read most of them as they were posted, but a lot of them were worth reading again. Some of them, though? Well, it was kind of a baffling collection. It seemed like two-thirds of them were about politics - and not about politics in general but a specific situations that made them timely rather than timeless. I remember having a similar reaction when I read Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded. Perhaps I'm simply not the right audience for these books. näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"In a very real sense, Whatever is my life's work; it's fifteen years (so far) of me thinking about what's going on in my life and in my world." John Scalzi What sort of idiot spends fifteen years writing a blog? New York Times Bestselling author John Scalzi is that sort of idiot. And in those fifteen years the blog he's written, called Whatever, has won awards, had its entries republished in newspapers, magazines and books, and has seen millions of readers each year come by to read Scalzi's observations on life, the world, and just about everything that happens in both. It's one of the most popular personal blogs on the planet. The Mallet of Loving Correction (named for Scalzi's method of moderating the comment sections of his site) is the second collection of entries from Whatever. It spans two elections, a civil rights revolution, the fall of MySpace and the rise of Twitter and Facebook, and a whole era on the Internet and on the planet Earth. Nothing is sacred ("Taunting the Tauntable" is the motto of Whatever): Scalzi takes on politicians, bigots, vengeful nerds and major corporations with righteous sarcasm and also takes time to muse on love, marriage, children and faith. Everything and anything is up for discussion, examination and explanation. The Mallet of Loving Correction, in short, is the whole range of one human's experience, in one easy-to-carry package. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Not all the posts are equally interesting to me personally—it’s a long book—but I enjoyed his writing throughout, even in the posts that were timely back between 2008 and 2012 but are old news now.
Scalzi strikes me as very fair-minded and logical. That, combined with the fact he has a sense of humor I like and makes regular, sweet references to his wife and daughter, made this collection a winner for me.
I recommend this to fans of Scalzi’s fiction, blog or tweets, but also to people who’ve never tried him before. He writes about anything and everything, and he’s quite good at it. ( )