The King in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers
Reading this made me realize that my brain just won’t register horror in any normal way.
Fiction
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas made me want to reread a certain classic.
The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
Sometimes as you read a sequel you just hope beyond hope that it wasn’t a marketing departments decision.
The Martian Time Slip – Philip K Dick
The ship of Theseus is a pretty applicable bit of philosophy. Here’s a thought: are you the same reader you were 20 years ago?
The Stainless Steel Rat – Harry Harrison
Some books are more akin to fast food than a proper meal.
The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. Le Guin
Leibniz is not once mentioned in the novel. So why do I keep thinking about him?
Xenocide – Orson Scott Card
What happens when you read the sequel to a novel you didn’t really feel needed a sequel?
For We Are Many – Dennis E Taylor
For We Are Many raises the stakes on what was set up in the first book of the series.
Train Dreams – Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson’s virtue seems to be his concision, and this is rather clear in ‘Train Dreams’.
