elizlizabeth's Reviews (242)

Me gustó mucho la parte de Trillo, creo que la estaré utilizando mucho como referencia para mi práctica. La sección de Sanjurjo es más reflexiva y sintetiza varias posturas académicas lo que la hace mucho más densa y compleja; no muy útil para quienes andamos "de a pie".

Delightful. Much like Monty, I was ready to dislike Adrian but I'm 100% team Gremlin now. I love how the book dealth with a heavy subject in a thoughtful way that also aligned with the message that you are not your condition/illness. The ending was perfect, I wouldn't have it any other way for this series.

I enjoyed some of this author's work but this struck me as needlessly facetious. Some of the conclusions regarding TV can easily apply to current day technology, but I'm not sure I agree with him as to the consequences. 
Many of his problematizations of the subject can be easily interpreted as ableist, racist, and downright colonialist, but due to the fact that he doesn't elaborate in any of these, he ends up tip-toeing that middle line like a true libertarian. While I understand that his approach was revolutionary in its time and certainly paved the way to an improvement of pedagogical thinking, I believe that many of his conclusions regarding the "function of school" have been overriden by critical theory (Freire, Jelin, etc.) I would encourage anyone with an interest in education to look up more perspectives and not "marry" into Postman's vision so quickly.

Weird little book. Helped me cover a prompt for a yearly challenge but unsure if I would've read til the end otherwise. Maybe I'm missing something.

Doing a re-read before the year ends. This comic changed my life when I first read it, I'm so happy to see the fandom still going strong.

Beautiful story, well-fleshed characters, kept me at the edge of my metaphorical seat for the last third. I loved the ending, which I feel was as close to a happy one that we could get after events such as these. 
Audiobook quality was great, the narrator made me feel immersed into the plot right away despite me not knowing anything about this historical period.

Entertaining drama with a bit of a comment on intellectual socialism/communism vs the materialist take on it. I really liked the characters and I was pleasantly surprised at how fleshed out, flawed and complex without making them a moral lesson or warning, especially regarding the (two! female!) protagonists. I think that I would have very much loved to chat with Edward Morgan, tbh he's my best friend now.
Only beware of the slow pacing. I don't mind much as I listened to it in bits here and there, but I know that a lot of people don't like the more meandering classics and this definitely does so.

I liked the first couple chapters, but then the constant paragraphs of statistics and data kept getting in the way. I wish they had been footnotes.
That aside, as the book progressed it felt as if the characters were just a vessel to land a point, granted not a bad point to make, but it made me feel like I was being lectured in a rather condescending way.

This is hands down the perfect YA urban fantasy. A perfect conclusion for the first trilogy arc, I wouldn't change a thing.

I have a love-hate relationship with this saga but it's always entertaining, if sometimes a bit convoluted.