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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

August 28, 2020July 30, 2020

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

August 14, 2020April 12, 2020

Persepolis Rising – James S. A. Corey

The Expanse books often focus on aspects of the story that I just can’t seem to care about.

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Fiction, History, War  0 Comments

July 31, 2020July 9, 2020

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

What is a war story? What is an anti-war story?

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Alternate History, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  2 Comments

July 17, 2020July 2, 2020

Pavane – Keith Roberts

This might be the most well-written book I disliked reading.

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Fiction, Historical Fiction  0 Comments

July 3, 2020July 1, 2020

The Atheist in the Attic – Samuel R Delany

What does it mean when you are struggling with a book that, by all descriptions, you should easily love?

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Fiction, Horror  0 Comments

June 19, 2020June 6, 2020

The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker

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

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Fantasy, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

June 5, 2020April 27, 2020

The Expert System’s Brother – Adrian Tchaikovsky

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

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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

May 22, 2020April 12, 2020

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Safe Drivers – Grant Naylor

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

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

May 8, 2020March 30, 2020

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – Dennis E. Taylor

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

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Epic, Fiction, Mythology, Poetry  0 Comments

April 24, 2020March 29, 2020

The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)

Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.

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