Sara's reading log

I am a book hoarder and reader. My main genre is SF, but I also love magic realism, fantasy and general fiction. Favorite authors are Iain M. Banks, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Isaac Asimov, Ben Aaronovitch and more. My rating system is based on five stars. I rate books based on my expectations and what a books aims to be. This means that the brilliant 'Fahrenheit 451' gets five stars because I thought it would be good, people said it was good, and it was good, but 'A Closed and Common Orbit' also gets five stars because in its series, in its style, I really enjoyed it and was not disappointed.

De laatste eenhoorn by Peter S. Beagle

  • Started on: 2011-11-02
  • Finished on: 2011-11-03
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

I have never seen the movie “The Last Unicorn”, but I had heard of it, and I knew that the book was supposed to be better. I found the book a couple of months ago at a second-hand shop for only 50 cents, so I had to have it. When I mentioned I was reading it on one of the LibraryThing talk forums, people were jealous I got to read it for the first time.
Did it live up to the expectations? Yes, it sure did. It is a fantasy story about the last unicorn, who, when she hears that she is supposed to be the last, goes on a quest to find out what happened to the other unicorns. On the way, a wizard and a woman join her cause to go to a depressing land with a depressing king and a fierce monster. In essence it is a classic fantasy/heroic story. We have a unicorn, a prince, a beautiful girl, a curse, love, despair, and all those themes. But it is written with a lot of wit and humor, which makes this a very funny and great read. Short but very sweet, four out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2011-11-02
  • Finished on: 2011-11-03
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

I have never seen the movie “The Last Unicorn”, but I had heard of it, and I knew that the book was supposed to be better. I found the book a couple of months ago at a second-hand shop for only 50 cents, so I had to have it. When I mentioned I was reading it on one of the LibraryThing talk forums, people were jealous I got to read it for the first time.
Did it live up to the expectations? Yes, it sure did. It is a fantasy story about the last unicorn, who, when she hears that she is supposed to be the last, goes on a quest to find out what happened to the other unicorns. On the way, a wizard and a woman join her cause to go to a depressing land with a depressing king and a fierce monster. In essence it is a classic fantasy/heroic story. We have a unicorn, a prince, a beautiful girl, a curse, love, despair, and all those themes. But it is written with a lot of wit and humor, which makes this a very funny and great read. Short but very sweet, four out of five stars.