Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Extracted |
| author | RR Haywood |
| ISBN-10 | 1-503-94186-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-503-94186-1 |
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| date | 2017-Jul-04 |
The idea in this book is interesting: Somebody invented a time machine, but fucked up using it and changed the future (for the worse). Now a kind of rescue mission is attempted to find out what went wrong, when and where and rectify it.
At first, the book is really interesting. Three people form three different time periods are extracted to be members of the mission. The middle of the book describes a period, which is rather slow-moving and not too interesting for the main characters. You could now argue the author is doing an outstanding job relaying this feeling to the reader, as this part of the book really does feel sluggish. For my part, however, I rather say the middle of the book is too long. Quite contrary, the very end moves on too fast. All this put together: mere average.
But there is something more, something I hate in books: the story is begun, but does not have anything nearly resembling an end. Even though it is designed as a trilogy, I still think each of the books should have some kind of end; even if you need to read them in the correct order to understand things.
