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Book Review Armada By Ernest Cline I should start by saying I really enjoyed Ready Player One, Mr. Cline's previous and perhaps more famous novel. That was the reason I picked up Armada. So let me bottom line you here: If you liked Ready Player One, you'll like Armada too. If you didn't then you'll … Continue reading Book Review – Armada
Book Review Best American Mystery Stories - 2015 Edited by James Patterson I'm in short story mode. Been that way for a year or so. I love to read novels, of course. The short story is arguably harder. You have only a few thousand words, while a novel ten times that. You have to be … Continue reading Book Review – Best American Mystery Stories – 2015
Book Review: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson I became an Stephenson fanboy back in the 90s. Snowcrash and Diamond Age were nearly mind altering experiences. Interface, written collaboratively under a pseudonym, also really made me think. Cryptonomicon was awesome in its story as well as its length. But it was the beginning of an unfortunate trend, … Continue reading Book Review: Seveneves
Book Review - Hunters of the Red Moon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley I took a walk down memory lane, took the wayback machine to 1973. That's when the book was written, not when I read it, I'm sure. I would have been all of seven years old, so it is unlikely that I would have … Continue reading Book Review – Hunters of the Red Moon
Book Review-Glasshouse-by Charles Stross Accelerando was the book that sold me on Stross. Probably the book responsible for more "wow" moments in scifi reading in the last decade. Technically, the series of short stories was published in 2005, so I suppose it is more than the last decade. Hair splitting aside, it meant that I … Continue reading Book Review – Glasshouse
Book Review (spoilers) The Red By Linda Nagata Just finished reading The Red. I got an actual paperback for a change. I was reading through some award nominees and also JohnnScalzi's blog. I came across a Big Idea on the blog for the sequel to The Red. And I also saw it was nominated for … Continue reading Book Review – The Red
Book Review Red Rising By Pierce Brown You might see a pattern in my book reviews lately, Bone Clocks, Annihilation, all recent fantasy award winners or mentions. And now Red Rising, which seems to straddle genres. I have been disappointed with some scifi awards, not only with the politics, but also the quality of the … Continue reading Book Review – Red Rising
Book Review Saint Odd by Dean Koontz At the beginning of the year I reviewed a bunch of Odd Thomas books. I read a bunch of them back to back. It was kind of like binge watching your favorite show on Netflix. For TV, that can often be a lot of fun. Many shows now … Continue reading Book Review – Saint Odd
Book Review Annihilation: a Novel By Jeff VanderMeer The fantasy/mystery novel hooked me at the beginning, but failed to keep my interest the whole way through. I did read it all the way through, however. I've decided to stop reading mediocre writing anymore, so it passed that bar. A couple of things pulled me in; … Continue reading Book Review – Annihilation: a Novel
Book Review The Bone Clocks By David Mitchell Cover Image from Amazon.com As time passes (what I really mean is, as I get older) I am increasingly unforgiving about what I read. If a novel doesn't appeal, I will give it 60 pages to recapture my interest. If, after those sixty pages, it has recaptured … Continue reading Book Review – The Bone Clocks
B.S. Donovan 