Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Book 8: The Shack (Young)
Poorly written, low-quality theodicy. Protagonist does not have his wits about him, for which I blame the author.
Book 7: The Light Ages (MacLeod)
Average fantasy. Victorian era + Magic + Revolution should have been awesome, like Susanna Clarke meets China Mieville, but it was kind of flat.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Book 6: Dream (Selby)
Very good. Introductory comments by Aronofsky are just wrong, but author's preface is interesting ("Living the dream" v "Living the life")
Book 4: The Phoenix Exultant (Wright)
Excellent sequel to The Golden Age. Hero's a bit more sympathetic now. And a couple of funny parts.
Book 3: The Golden Age (Wright)
Excellent far-future post-Singularity SF. Good stuff on remaining human (or not). And a kind of cool lost-memory detective story. Cliffhanger ending.
Book 2: Pirate Freedom (Wolfe)
Very good historical novel. Doesn't seem as weird and layered as usual for Wolfe, but maybe it's just going over my head.
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