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And so it begins

March 4, 2015 by badkittyuno 5 Comments

For a rabid Stephen King fan, I took a really long time to get to the Dark Tower series. I wanted to wait until it was all done — I’d heard the gasps of Dark Tower fans when King was struck by the van, and I didn’t want to be one of the many stranded with an unfinished series. But then he did finish it, and still I drug my feet, until my best friend (hi Cat!) told me to read the damn thing (I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Stephen King

badkittyuno's CBR7 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Stephen King ·
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The Shakespeare Code

March 3, 2015 by badkittyuno 5 Comments

Interred with Their Bones will be one of those books that I enjoyed immensely while reading it, but won’t seek out the sequel or probably remember much of it in six months. Still, it was a fun read while it lasted! “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” Kate Stanley worked as a Shakespeare scholar before abandoning her school (and her mentor, Roz) in favor of directing Shakespeare on the stage. But when her mentor seeks her out […]

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badkittyuno's CBR7 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·
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Cormoran Strikes Again!

March 3, 2015 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

The Silkworm wasn’t quite as stellar as The Cuckoo’s Calling, but still an interesting and well-written detective story. I wasn’t quite as wrapped up in this case as I was in Lula Landry’s (probably because the victim wasn’t so likable), and I thought the ending was a bit outrageous, but the Robin & Strike relationship progressed wonderfully and it had a great cast of characters. “Writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: badkittyuno, J.K. Rowling, Robert Galbraith

badkittyuno's CBR7 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: badkittyuno, J.K. Rowling, Robert Galbraith ·
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Disappointing in so many ways

March 3, 2015 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

I really thought I would like Little Bee – it had fantastic reviews, the cover/summary looked really interesting and for god’s sake, Pamie Ribon recommended it. But I really just didn’t, and the more I read, the more frustrated I became. It could have been such an incredible story, but it fell completely flat. Little Bee is a Nigerian refugee who has spent two years in a London detention center. When she leaves it illegally, she calls the only people she knows in Europe: the O’Rourkes. But five […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Chris Cleave

badkittyuno's CBR7 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Chris Cleave ·
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Not for the faint of heart…

February 27, 2015 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Pygmy is some fucked up nonsense. That shouldn’t surprise anyone who has read Chuck Palahniuk before, but still, fair warning. In spite, or more likely, because of its fuckedup-ness, Pygmy remains mostly entertaining. “For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life…sell religions.” Mostly. The writing style takes a lot […]

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badkittyuno's CBR7 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·
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Not quite Snow Crash, but still pretty good!

February 27, 2015 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Zodiac, my second Neal Stephenson, didn’t really deliver the pure enjoyment that I received from the other Stephenson book I recently finished, Snow Crash. However, if I hadn’t just finished that one, and held the next Stephenson book I read to such a high standard, I probably would have rated Zodiac higher. Set sometime in the late 80s/early 90s in Boston, Zodiac is about an “eco-terrorist” named Sangmon Taylor (S.T. for short). S.T. works for a company called GEE, discovering which huge companies are polluting the environment (specifically, the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Neal Stephenson

badkittyuno's CBR7 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Neal Stephenson ·
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