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Um das zu verstehen, dafür fehlt dir die Mathematik. Sagen wir einfach das Universum bevorzugt dies oder mag das nicht 😂

Old farts group is being split up to go to training stations

lol this MC is hilarious

Före 24/4 -26.

DNF

All rather predictable - Heinlein did it better with Starship Troopers.

Im having such a tough time connecting with this book. Its like when you miss a beat and spend the rest of the time trying to catch the right rhythm. I start to get into it and then...the main character does something and im back to square one.
Almost 50% and nothing really noteworthy to report

“What is like when you lose somebody you love?” Jane asked. “You die too”, I said. “And you wait around for your body to catch up”. “Is that what you are doing now?” Jane said. “Waiting for your body to catch up, I mean.” “No, not anymore. You eventually get to live again, you just live a different live, that’s all.” "So, you're on your 3rd life now", Jane said.

Transferring consciousness

"У Руїза виявилися особливі претензії до християн, євреїв, мусульман, атеїстів, урядових службовців, лікарів, учителів, роботяг, любителів собак, власників зброї, спеціалістів з бойових мистецтв, фанатів реслінгу та, дуже дивно (тобто сам факт, що це його взагалі бентежило, а також, що в нашій групі знайшовся такий), чечіточників. Великими чи малими групами, парами, поодинці, всі рекрути були міцно відпетрушені"

I am not enjoying this book

In space station. Undergoing physicals and tests

61%: “Well, I miss my wife you know”, I said. “But I miss the feeling of I don’t know, comfort, the sense you are where you are supposed to be, with someone you are supposed to be with. I sure as hell don’t feel that way out here…There is no stable ground out here”, I said. There is nothing out here I feel really safe about.”

“We didn’t have to do this, you know. Knock these poor sons of bitches out of space and make it so they spend the next couple of decades starving and dying and killing each other. We didn’t murder civilians today, well other than the ones that got Bender, but they’ll spend a nice long time dying from disease and murdering each other because they can’t do too much of anything else.”

Just reverse the polarity, it always works for Starfleet

That’s the type of getting old I would like to have

Gross

5

1st chapter is good. Wife’s gravesite and at the recruitment office.

Mestic cansant bastant de que el protagonista sigui "el bromas"

Quando me disseram que o texto do Scalzi é muito engraçado e perspicaz, não estavam brincando. Todo esse capítulo 7 é hilário e muito bem escrito!

Finalmente engrenou.

I nice update on the classic military sci-fi: subtract the misogyny and add a little introspection about the incessant violence.

It’s been so long since I’ve read the POV of a straight white cis man that I’m like 🤨bro you live like this?

But it’s good so far, none of these characters have read a scifi novel before or they would have asked so many questions before signing up for this

Hopefully this picks up in part 2 bc so far it’s kind of a snoozer

This book reminded me a lot of Confederation of Valor. I like space soldiers- more specifically, I like hero’s who are in space but are just dealing with the same things soldiers deal with everywhere. I wish the alien species got a bit more description. It was sometimes hard to picture what they were fighting. 8/10

It's not terrible. And even though I know it was written back in 2004, I'm still finding this incredibly dated and a bit slow.

this is the longest 300 page book ever written

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