Jenne's review
Eifelheim
by Michael Flynn
Jenne's review
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
Jenne's review
rating:
Hm. This was enjoyable, and had good characters, but I kept waiting for some kind of OMG! moment that just never really came. I thought that the researchers in the future were going to make some exciting discovery, but all they discovered was the thing in the past that we knew about all along.
Still, aliens-visit-13th-century-Germany is a pretty good story.
One other nitpick--it weirded me out that the aliens were supposed to be speaking bad German, but the way that was portrayed in the book was by having them speak English using German grammar. Also irritating--the priest would keep coming up with the modern word for a concept that he didn't have, e.g. "a sound coming from a small box? I shall call it...mikrofonos! The study of the mind and emotions? Psychologos!" (I am paraphrasing here; I don't remember the words exactly).
It was cute at first, but then started to remind me of Ayla in The Clan of the Cave Bear and how she invented basically everything ever--...more
Still, aliens-visit-13th-century-Germany is a pretty good story.
One other nitpick--it weirded me out that the aliens were supposed to be speaking bad German, but the way that was portrayed in the book was by having them speak English using German grammar. Also irritating--the priest would keep coming up with the modern word for a concept that he didn't have, e.g. "a sound coming from a small box? I shall call it...mikrofonos! The study of the mind and emotions? Psychologos!" (I am paraphrasing here; I don't remember the words exactly).
It was cute at first, but then started to remind me of Ayla in The Clan of the Cave Bear and how she invented basically everything ever--...more
