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lobelia321I chose this for its palindromic title (a challenge prompt) and because it is in Italian (challenge to self: read more foreign-to-me languages). It was a pleasant surprise that I enjoyed it tremendously -- despite the unwieldiness of reading graphic novels on phone or kindle. I was very pleased to find that I understood nearly all the Italian (the auto translate function does not work for graphic text) and also that I got all (most?) of the jokes. I'm thinking that the words I didn't understand were possibly made up for sci fi purposes or ar least adapted. Their look and sound conveyed the gist:
"Dite ai pilote che ho sostituito il sufflone inverso della golaronda."
I'm thinking: repairing the Evil Spaceship, using a thingummy that inverses the round tyre techie thingy sonic screwdriver wotsit. :D
This is a spoof of Star Wars by a total Star Wars fan. The afterword reveals nostalgic love and fannish fear of franchise dilution. It was first published in 2019 and is based on Ortolani's earlier 1999 series about a Rat-Man (or Rat-Men). I now want to read all of this series and the previous one.
This was a total fun read and affordable, too, with a great girl heroine and unlikely crone sidekick, and a hilariously bumbling Evil Overlord, addressed amusingly as Supremo Loden. The scenes with the leaf blower, the thousands of pizza orders for the stormtroopers, and the 2001 Space Odyssey spoofish access code debâcle (updated for our world of frustratingly forgotten passwords) were particularly enjoyable.
Chosen for the Pop Sugar 2022 reading challenge, prompt: a palindromic title. It also is the most beautifully palindromic title I could find and hits Der Tugut or Hannah out of the water. Even Maddaddam is not as elegant, although I'll grant some kudos to Seveneves and Wolf Flow.
Also fulfils the Diverse Reading prompt: set in space. And my personal challenges: book from the EU; book in Italian.
Crossposted to Goodreads
"Dite ai pilote che ho sostituito il sufflone inverso della golaronda."
I'm thinking: repairing the Evil Spaceship, using a thingummy that inverses the round tyre techie thingy sonic screwdriver wotsit. :D
This is a spoof of Star Wars by a total Star Wars fan. The afterword reveals nostalgic love and fannish fear of franchise dilution. It was first published in 2019 and is based on Ortolani's earlier 1999 series about a Rat-Man (or Rat-Men). I now want to read all of this series and the previous one.
This was a total fun read and affordable, too, with a great girl heroine and unlikely crone sidekick, and a hilariously bumbling Evil Overlord, addressed amusingly as Supremo Loden. The scenes with the leaf blower, the thousands of pizza orders for the stormtroopers, and the 2001 Space Odyssey spoofish access code debâcle (updated for our world of frustratingly forgotten passwords) were particularly enjoyable.
Chosen for the Pop Sugar 2022 reading challenge, prompt: a palindromic title. It also is the most beautifully palindromic title I could find and hits Der Tugut or Hannah out of the water. Even Maddaddam is not as elegant, although I'll grant some kudos to Seveneves and Wolf Flow.
Also fulfils the Diverse Reading prompt: set in space. And my personal challenges: book from the EU; book in Italian.
Crossposted to Goodreads