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Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 3, 2023February 12, 2022

Replay – Ken Grimwood

I don’t think you need to get the moral of something exactly right for your to enjoy it.

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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Novel  0 Comments

February 17, 2023January 29, 2022

The Rooster Bar – John Grisham

Bad Lawyers doing bad things.

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Fiction, Horror, Novel  0 Comments

February 3, 2023January 29, 2022

The Dark Net – Benjamin Percy

Once again, I should stop reading horror.

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Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  3 Comments

December 23, 2022October 27, 2021

The Inverted World – Christopher Priest

Good sci-fi is hard to pull off, and as the technology improves, it is getting increasingly harder.

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Classics, Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

December 9, 2022October 26, 2021

Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates

Oh look, I actually liked one

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Fiction, Horror, Novel  1 Comment

November 25, 2022October 12, 2021

The Troop – Nick Cutter

Try as I might, horror just doesn’t work for me.

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Fiction, Novel, Reviews that are really about something else, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

October 28, 2022October 12, 2021

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu

What even is sci-fi?

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October 14, 2022September 25, 2021

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 – James Fenimore Cooper

Said to be the first great American novel, one find themselves asking why.

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Classics, Fiction, Novel  2 Comments

September 30, 2022August 27, 2021

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

There are some things I don’t want to discuss with my students. Here’s one.

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Fiction, Novel, Schlock, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

September 16, 2022August 29, 2021

The Infinite and the Divine – Robert Rath

This Warhammer book handles a a common sci-fi trope really poorly. But who cares?

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