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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 5 months ago

Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de

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Nicholas Meyer: Star Trek: Khan (AudiobookFormat, 2025, CBS Interactive)

History remembers Khan Noonien Singh as a villain, the product of a failed attempt to …

An intetesting take on Khan

This Audiobook was originally released as a podcast. That means each "episode" ended with a full list of producers, voice actors, directors etc.

A Fuill cast audio production told without a dedicated narrator follows the story of one historian who recieved permission from the Federation to travel Sedialpha 5 to find what mire we may know about Khan 25 years after his interaction with Kirk. She boards Sulu's Excelessor and is assisted by an ear young Ensign Tuvok.

She finds all the old tapes made by Lt. McGyvors and we learn more than we every thought possible.

I found tne original discovery of the selphieels disturbing but I might not have if I hadn't been plagued with nightmares of the earworms after seeing Star Trek II as a kid.

All in all a fine story, some weird while that I could nitpick about, but you did …

reviewed Hydra: Stargate SG-1 #13 by Holly Scott (Stargate: SG-1 (Fandemonium), #13)

Holly Scott, Jaimie Duncan: Hydra (Paperback, 2008, Fandemonium Books)

Rumours and accusations are reaching Stargate Command, and nothing is making sense. When SG-1 is …

Might make a good episode

I liked in, In fact I really loved the IDEA of this book. A group of robot duplicates of SG-1 employed by the NID to try to steal technology from worlds the SGC has said can't be done. There are like six different versions of these duplicates each with slightly modified code some work better than others, and one goes completely rouge.

The execution, however, left me wanting. It got really confusing having several characters named "jack O'Neil" they tried to help you tell the difference, like Jackson Alpha, and Dan and one named O'Neil talking to another named Jack, but it wasn't consistent and I frequently forgot where I was, particularly with them switching time lines back and forth, I kept having to go back to the beginning of the chapter to find out where in time and space we were at. At least they had those clues …

Timothy Ferriss: The 4-hour Workweek (Hardcover, 2009, Carmenere)

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a …

I listened to the Audiobook of the original version years ago. My wife bought me this dead tree expanded and updated version for Christmas as it was about the only book on my LibraryThing wishlist she could find at half-price books.