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Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the main entrance of the Poe building, an Art Deco tower glowing white in the illumination of its exterior sconces.

Recursion by Blake Crouch

July 1, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A pretty good novel that plays around with a concept early that seems like it’s going to be fruitful, but then abandons it for way too familiar territory. In addition to all that, the writing is overwrought in ways that are unsuited to book, and this book is sometimes peopled with incredibly flat, and irritatingly unthinking characters. So we begin with Barry Sutton, an NYPD robbery detective, being first on the scene of a would be suicide attempt. He tries to talk the woman down […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Blake Crouch, Recursion

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:354 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Blake Crouch, Recursion ·
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Thirty five hundred at Saks-Fifth Avenue.

Good Behavior by Blake Crouch

June 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This collection of stories that would become the tv show starring Michelle Dockery is pretty bad. Sometimes the plotting is bad, sometimes the writing is bad, and sometimes the overall presentation of the story is bad. So the collection itself is three relatively short novellas or regular to medium length short stories that tell the story of Letty Dobesh, a professional thief (especially pickpocket) who has addiction issues (meth). In the first story she is robbing a hotel room via a master keycard when she […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Blake Crouch, good behavior

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:325 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Blake Crouch, good behavior ·
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Samantha’s hand were still red from the cold, the skin over her knuckles taut and dry.

Ark by Veronica Roth

Emergency Skin by NK Jemisin

Forward by Blake Crouch

April 20, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Mostly I got this collection because I was interested in some short stories for walks and I like the mix of authors in general. Blake Crouch tells us in the intro/outro to each story the basic purpose of the collection, and like all such genre anthologies, it’s a mixed bag. The audio productions are really good with Evan Rachel Wood, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, David Harbour, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar are the readers of these stories. Each come in around an hour and all […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Ark, Blake Crouch, Emergency Skin, NK Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Veronica Roth

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:211 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Ark, Blake Crouch, Emergency Skin, NK Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Veronica Roth ·
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Recursion is repetitive

Recursion by Blake Crouch

April 15, 2020 by pixifer Leave a Comment

Recursion is about memory, time, and how the human brain processes and perceives both.  New York City detective Barry Sutton is investigating False Memory Syndrome, a terrifying condition spreading across the US. Victims have memories of a life they never lived. Sometimes the false life feels more real than their actual life, causing heartbreak and occasionally suicide.  Helena Smith is a neuroscientist trying to find a way to record memories and reimplant them in the brain in order to help Alzheimer’s patients remember their lives. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Blake Crouch, Fiction, sci-fi

pixifer's CBR12 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Blake Crouch, Fiction, sci-fi ·
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Tacoma calls, it’s waiting there to get rid of us all, when the big one comes better hope the car don’t stall.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

March 18, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Weirdly, my cannonball thus far has been strongly apocalyptic, which has been… interesting in light of current events. You’d think that this would make me more anxious, but paradoxically I’m looking at the real world and thinking “eh, people are hoarding toilet paper, but every grocery store I’ve been to has been relatively full if you’re not hyper specific about what you want. No one is stealing out of each others carts or housejacking like in The Mandibles” (Lionel Shriver’s book about the financial collapse […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 12 out of five stars, Blake Crouch, Cold storage, dark matter, David Koepp, Emily St. John Mandel, go buy this book, it's the end of the world as we know it, Lionel Shriver, no but really, read this, read this book, the mandibles, you should probably read this

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 12 out of five stars, Blake Crouch, Cold storage, dark matter, David Koepp, Emily St. John Mandel, go buy this book, it's the end of the world as we know it, Lionel Shriver, no but really, read this, read this book, the mandibles, you should probably read this ·
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The Forward Collection, ed. by Blake Crouch, was a fun success, except for that one story I didn’t like at all.

Ark by Veronica Roth

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

Randomize by Andy Weir

March 1, 2020 by narfna 8 Comments

I’m putting all my reviews of this collection in one post. Blake Crouch commissioned a bunch of his writer friends to bring him stories about some aspect of near-future technology, and how that might affect life on earth. These are what they gave him (along with Crouch’s own story). “Ark,” by Veronica Roth – 3.5 STARS This is miles above the last book I read from Roth in quality. It seems she’s learned how to be subtle, which is good! This first story in the […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Ark, Blake Crouch, Emergency Skin, futuristic sci-fi, n.k. jemisin, narfna, novellas, Paul Tremblay, Randomize, sci-fi, short stories, Summer Frost, The Last Conversation, Veronica Roth, You Have Arrived at Your Destination

narfna's CBR12 Review No:29 · Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: #Science Fiction, Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Ark, Blake Crouch, Emergency Skin, futuristic sci-fi, n.k. jemisin, narfna, novellas, Paul Tremblay, Randomize, sci-fi, short stories, Summer Frost, The Last Conversation, Veronica Roth, You Have Arrived at Your Destination ·
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