• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        1 month ago

        l read the book decades ago as it came out and still have some vivid images in my head of the described middle ages environment.

        Given that I usually forget the detailed contents of books I read after some weeks already, it means it must have been pretty good! :-)

        • stoy@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          It has been really good, yeah.

          I bought it and Airframe by the same author, and I had to drop Airframe as I found the general premise of the book too incorrect.

          To avoid spoilers I won’t go into detail of the specific issues I had with it.

          Before that I listened through Neuromancer and Dune.

          • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            1 month ago

            Never read Dune, but Neuromancer was one of the first SF-books ever that I got to read, back in the late 80s.
            Needless to say that it adequately blew my mind…

            • stoy@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
              3·
              1 month ago

              Dune is a weird story mixing sci-fi, fantasy and religion, it isn’t my favorite sci-fi work, but it is a great work.

              Neuromancer, the environment is fantastic, brilliant, but never got into the story.

              • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
                3·
                1 month ago

                As you seem not to be frightened by large books and also seem to like books with historic setting before scientific background, I would strongly recommend you the “Baroque” cycle by Neal Stephenson.
                Not sure if there is a good audiobook version of it though…

  • Tolstoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    How is the quality of the Brand “Clementoni”? My wife swears on Ravensburger but they’re overpriced and I found Clementoni as an alternative but haven’t ordered anything yet.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      This is the fist puzzle I have bought in decades.

      So far it seems pretty good.

  • nullroot@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 month ago

    Those colors are a bit vibrant… Maybe too vibrant…

    Jokes aside it looks very cool! Great activity

    • stoy@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      They were mounted there by my dad when I moved to this apartment, he wanted me to have a proper hobby workbench, with plenty of outlets.

      This space is in a walk in closet, which I have used for storage of rum and other alcohol.

      I have a large collection of alcohol but hardly ever drink, so I bought a small Billy bookcase as a bar shelf and moved the bottles away, to prepare the space for hobby use, if you checkout my post history you will find a rant about tech and my reasons for clearing this space, in short I have decided on a project for 2026, building a Z scale model railway in a suitcase.

      I have never done anything like that before but felt like giving it a go.

      I am just waiting for my finances to stabilize after christmas and an expensive January before I start, so I just started using the space for this.