Good morning, sleepy heads :-)
**Hugs, waves, coffee, garlic snails**

*big return hug*

Who's a sleepy head? *yawns*

*big return hug*

Hey... what's up, Moon ? :-)
**Big hug back**
... you ? ^^
how is your day, Yezemin ? :-)

Morning.

GAAAH ,'',',',:-O Invasion of girls!!
* of [url=https://www.gog.com/upload/avatars/2015/01/c4c898b7a455306d91c6aefc058b10d31e5b44b8.jpg]last year* ,ô__ô,

Morning Omega :)

Good morning everyone *big hugs and waves* :)

Urgh. I suggest hiding somewhere if things are starting to turn pink. I certainly will ;-)

Gooey morning, yourself.
What did you do with the staff picks? >:-|
Sounds like a plan. I'm too lazy to pinkify myself today :-p But it won't be necessary, now that ElT is here *phew*

Hey Agent *big hug*
Hm...guess we have to wait for the 4th of May for them....which is kinda unfortunate because i'm away from 4th to 9th ....

*retwug*
Unless they show up in 4 minutes? (I'm doubting, since it is a holiday.) May 4th... May 4th... Why does that date sound so familiar... I wonder what games could possibly go on sale on May 4th ;-p
Away? Somewhere pleasant, I hope?

I doubt it too...
And i have no idea why that date sounds familiar ;)

Yes..i'll be visiting my aunt and uncle in Bavaria (possibly on of the last chances to see my uncle) and they don't have internet :)

Good morning folks how are you doing?
So I was thinking as I'm not wont to do, about a book I read literally decades ago. And I thought to share my memories of it with all of you because; why not?
Here's the first installmennt of: lagomorphic book reviews.

Harry Harrison's: Eden Trilogy.
I first read this book when I was 14 or 15, and I think that's probably the best age for it, because quite frankly it's juvenile nonsense, and if read when you're older and more discriminating, you will pick out the glaring plotholes and bullshit, instead of being distracted by all the shiny "humans VS dinosaurs" coolness. A lot like Any Dean R Koontz novel, whose books should be age restricted from 13 to 25.

So the basic premise is as follows. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs never fell, and so they kept on living and evolving until an intelligent dino came along. The Yilanè. These intelligent dinosaurs are, to put it midly absolutely ridiculous (they're not even real dinosaurs) and their technology is completely organic based, centered around genetically modified organisms, as genetic engineering was understood in the early 80's by sci-fi writers, which is to say, none at all. They don't even have simple tools, every single thing they use is a higly modified living creature. Hell their spanners are probably lizards with an overbite and lockjaw. Also these dinosaurs are based off the 70's and 80's understanding of dinosaurs, that they were cold-blooded reptiles.

So for some reason (which despite some attempted scientific explanation by the author boils down to just because), these intelli-dinos never spread accross the Atlantic, despite being able to do so (because they don't care). Then for even more ridiculous reasons, North America (probably because of America, F*CK YEAH!) is the only place in the world where mammals develop without dinosaur competition, and lo and behold, humans do evolve from New World monkeys (I'm facepalming right now), into cavemen known as the Tanu.

So our story begins at the start of the last Ice Age which forces the Yilane to abandon their northernmost cities because they're cold-blooded and don't know what fire is and thus have no concept of central heating (their ignorance of such a basic tool as fire is hand-waved with the excuse of their organic-tech, sigh), so they decide to colonize America because the book needs a premise.

And thus comes the epic clash of cultures and species, between a millions of years old technologically advanced society with a strong military force and highly organized and cavemen.

The cavemen are somehow able to gain the upper hand by the end of the book.

*Ahem*

As said before it's a book about cavemen vs dinosaurs. That's the shiny bit hoping to distract you from the gaping plotholes and overall ridiculousness. And if you're a teenager, your attention span is limited enough that you will focus on the cool bits about human-dino genocide. The book is more pulp than sci-fi with most of the explanations being merely a thin veener of paint over a base of "just because". And I feel that it'd have been more honest if he'd done away with it. As it stands it looks as if the author was ashamed of his own ridiculousness and decided to paint with bullshit all over it. Also, it hasn't aged very well, since most of the "science" is based on late 70's understanding of genetics and dinosaurs. Theories which have now been rendered obsolete. There's the fact that despite the Yilanè having actual knowledge of genes and their workings, their brand of genetic engineering resembles more a championship dog-breeder than anything you'd do at a lab. Yet somehow they manage to turn a frog into a microscope.

So overall I give it 2 flint spear tips and one poisonous lobster gun out of 10. In my opinion this book should be labelled as young-adult. It feels more pulp than sci-fi but instead of wearing its heart on its sleeve and displaying it proudly it tries to hide it under sciendcy bullshit and pass it as "serious" science fiction.

I'll have you know that I'm wide awake! *false exasperation*

...I'm not fooling anyone, am I? *sigh*

Despite me being tired my day is going fine. I was able to squeeze in some shopping in my early lunch break.