Wednesday, February 16, 2011

2011.Book7 - For the Win (Doctorow)

Some good stuff.

2011.Book6 - Tooth and Claw (Walton)

Excellent. Slow start, spectacular finish

2011.Book5 - The Miracle of Theism (Mackie)

Spectacular. Analytic (?) philosophy

Monday, January 24, 2011

2011.Book4 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Decent on second read.

2011.Book3 - The School of Essential Ingredients (Bauermeister)

Pretty average. Food-concerned.

2011.Book2 - Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes (Watts)

Relentlessly pessimistic short stories. The one about the whales was morbidly hilarious.

2011.Book1 - The Misenchanted Sword (Watt-Evans)

Very good "real" fantasy.

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Book 46 - Eric (Pratchett)

Nice little Rincewind story.

Book 45 - A Million Little Pieces (Frey)

Very good addiction recovery story. In retrospect, pretty clearly fictionalized.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Book 42 - An Exaltation of Larks (Reed)

Very good. Not as weird as Jo Walton says. Some excellent ideas. Characters make the wrong choice in the ending. The turtles were right: an eternal infinite universe would be better than single finite universe.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Book 41 - The Sparrow (Russell)

Pretty average. Emphatically not SF (see Ken MacLeod)

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Book 40 - Disciple of the Dog (Bakker)

Very good thriller. But would I like it so much if it wasn't Bakker?

Monday, October 25, 2010