On the Road – Jack Kerouac
‘On the Road’ is one of those classics that won’t be a classic much longer.
Novel
Blood Music – Greg Bear
A relatively character-less novel that holds up pretty well.
A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
Yes, I read this because of the TV show. Who cares?
The Death of Grass – John Christopher
2021, What a time to read this book.
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Reading the so called classics often leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. This is one of the few that I actually enjoyed.
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
This book will haunt me till my dying day. Me and The Sun Also Rises have a torrid history. This
The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac
Sometimes I wonder why I bother. There is a legitimate fear in me that I no longer have the brain
MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood
Better than the middle novel but still not nearly as good as the first, this final installment still feels very peripheral to Oryx and Crake.
Evolution – Stephen Baxter
If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.
Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison
The word of the day is: Malthusian
Failures in Polymathy 