Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
“What did they make you forget?” “I’m not allowed to remember!”
A real Abbott & Costello exchange
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“What did they make you forget?”
“I’m not allowed to remember!”
A real Abbott & Costello exchange
Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
“But they can’t reject queries on political grounds! That’s against the Treaty.” Aragonite just patted me on my shoulder.
"The government can't do that! It's illegal!"
“But they can’t reject queries on political grounds! That’s against the Treaty.”
Aragonite just patted me on my shoulder.
"The government can't do that! It's illegal!"
Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
“Most people don’t trouble themselves with philosophy, disciple,” Vaterite said. “It’s the degeneration of our modern age.”
“Most people don’t trouble themselves with philosophy, disciple,” Vaterite said. “It’s the degeneration of our modern age.”
Content warning library of broken worlds chapter 1
They didn’t understand that a creature like you, who had constructed such a fantasy of his ideal woman, wouldn’t even want a real one.
incels irl
Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
Content warning library of broken worlds chapter 1
They didn’t understand that a creature like you, who had constructed such a fantasy of his ideal woman, wouldn’t even want a real one.
incels irl
Content warning library of broken worlds chapter 1
oof, rape scene in the first chapter
Tak! commented on Library of Broken Worlds
Content warning library of broken worlds chapter 1
oof, rape scene in the first chapter
Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
A girl and a god, alone in communion.
enne📚 reviewed Luminous by Silvia Park
Luminous
4 stars
A messy but enjoyable book about robots, grief, and memory set in a post-war unified Korea.
The plot, pacing, and characters meandered a bit too much for my taste, but it was made up for by the texture in the world and its threads of philosophy. I do also love a story that is engaging with both disability and transness through the lens of robots and robotics.
enne📚 quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
The robot understands that how we love isn’t divine. It is meager, selfish, exquisitely cruel. Think of any time a war erupts—who among us would not sacrifice the lives of many to save the one person we love?
— Luminous by Silvia Park
enne📚 quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
Like robots, grief came with a bewildering manual.
— Luminous by Silvia Park
Tak! reviewed Luminous by Silvia Park
5 stars
Luminous: 100/100
Luminous is a book about death, loss, and self-loathing, told via the universal medium of robots.
I love the way the connections between the lives of the different characters are gradually revealed as the story unfolds. I also really appreciate the complexity and depth of the characters, even when they seen stereotypical seen from one angle.
The author wrote in the acknowledgements that she started out to write a children's book and kind of got derailed by personal circumstances into this thing that is much darker and more complex, but I'm very glad she did, Luminous is extremely good.