Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas made me want to reread a certain classic.
Fiction
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’.
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.
