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    Nova Lituania (2019)

    Nova Lituania (2019)

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    It's late 1930's. Foreseeing the upcoming war in Europe, Lithuanian geographer Feliksas Gruodis...

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Under the Blue in Books

Jul 7, 2024  
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Under the Blue
Oana Aristide | 2024
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
131 of 220
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Under the Blue
By Oana Aristide
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A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end of the world?

Meanwhile two computer scientists have been educating their baby in a remote location. Their baby is called Talos, and he is an advanced AI program. Every week they feed him data, starting from the beginning of written history, era by era, and ask him to predict what will happen next to the human race. At the same time they're involved in an increasingly fraught philosophical debate about why human life is sacred and why the purpose for which he was built - to predict threats to human life to help us avoid them - is a worthwhile and ethical pursuit.

These two strands come together in a way that is always suspenseful, surprising and intellectually provocative: this is an extraordinarily prescient and vital work of fiction - an apocalyptic road novel to frighten and thrill.

This was a case of don’t judge a book by its cover I wasn’t expecting much from it to be honest. But I actually liked it. We follow two different stories that some how come together in the end one of 3 people trying to escape the pandemic and nuclear fall out and then 2 scientists developing an AI. While I liked it the ending left me feeling a bit flat! But it is worth a read.
  
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Debbiereadsbook (1171 KP) rated The Underhanded (William Dresden #1) in Books

May 3, 2024  
The Underhanded (William Dresden #1)
The Underhanded (William Dresden #1)
Adam Sikes | 2024 | Thriller
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
takes time to come together
Independent reviewer for Arachaeolibrarian, I was gifted my copy of this book.

William is a professor of history, and he gets dragged into the world of espionage, full of secrets about him and his family, and an attempt to destabilize Europe. Followed by an attempt on his life, and William is running for that life, while trying to get the truth.

For the most part, I enjoyed this book, but a couple things, for me, knocked that 4th star off.

The book is full of long dialogues, explaining things in minute detail. I got bogged down reading those pages, and in some places, I skipped ahead.

And it takes a long LONG time for the plot to come together. I very much wanted to dump it in places, I was so freaking confused. It made for a hard-work read, and I'm not sure this book was for me.

It's well written, though, and I didn't see any editing or spelling errors to spoil my reading. It really was the long winded plotting out loud, and the long plot line.

Some twists, and they were not seen coming, so well played there! And once things start coming together, it moves fast, so you gotta hang on there!

Many bonus points for not, not once, calling William, Bill. Big thumbs up from me for that!

First I've read of this author, and I think I'd like to try a shorter book, if there are any. I just struggled a bit with this one.

3 good stars

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