Fiction – Page 11 – Failures in Polymathy

The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker

For a person who doesn’t care much for horror, I rather enjoyed this.

There is a lot buried in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Expert System’s Brother’

A book that is a rehash of a TV show could be disappointing, unless it is a really good TV show.

Some books challenge you directly. Other can challenge you indirectly.

Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.

Speaker for the Dead won me over, despite a slow start.

Every read something and feel like your education really wasn’t up to the task of understanding it?

Exuberance! is a stylistic choice.

I didn’t want to dislike this book, but I just didn’t seem to scratch any itch.

This book was a bit of a dip in the series, at least in comparison to the previous one.