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 […]
The Shakespeare Code
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 […]
Cormoran Strikes Again!
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. […]
Disappointing in so many ways
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 […]
Not for the faint of heart…
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 […]
Not quite Snow Crash, but still pretty good!
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 […]
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