Tuesday, July 26, 2011

2011.Book27 - Julian Comstock (Wilson)

Excellent. Fantastic post-apocalypse-nineteenth-century story. Wow.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

2011.Book26 - Reflex (Gould)

Very good thriller masquerading as SF. A little button-pushing

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

2011.Book25 - Jumper (Gould)

Excellent SF/thriller. Not really SF by the Ken MacLeod definition (humans using tools), but it is by the R. Scott Bakker definition (an expanding world)

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

2011.Book24 - Wyst (Vance)

Pretty good SF.

2011.Book23 - Marune (Vance)

Pretty good SF. Good story obscured by pedantic style (annoying footnotes -- and I love footnotes)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

2011.Book22 - Trullion (Vance)

Good old-school SF. More about characters than environment or tools, so maybe not "echt" SF.

2011.Book21 - The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)

Very good weirdo fantasy. Lots of jokes about Moscow literary establishment that I didn't get.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Friday, May 27, 2011

2011.Book19 - Kraken (Mieville)

Very good weird fantasy. Better in retrospect. The page-by-page experience is not as good as the memory.

Friday, May 20, 2011

2011.Book18 - Love Wins (Bell)

Pretty good. Hard to argue with.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Friday, May 06, 2011

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Friday, April 01, 2011

2011.Book10 - Best Served Cold (Abercrombie)

Very good new-style epic fantasy. Revenge, betrayal, violence, sex, and humour.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

2011.Book9 - Room (Donoghue)

Pretty good. First half's button-pushing thriller. Second half's goal-less fish-out-of-water.

2011.Book8 - John the Baptizer (Hansen)

OK. Sort of interesting, but not very interesting.