One of the many reasons why I like reading books so much is the fact that every novel doesn’t only contain a tale, but the book itself has its own story as well. Hand me any one of my books and I can tell you where I bought it and more often than not I [...]
Archive for July, 2007
The Books Just Keep A-Rollin’
Amazon must love me. They keep sending me these great books and all I can do is to read so I don’t drown in the ever-growing stock pile that is my collection. Here’s what the bastards saw fit to mail me this time:
1 of: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
1 of: Acacia: Book One: The War [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
I’m done with the book reviews for the time being. Everything that remains now is the billion movie reviews I’ve had on hold. So here goes; my thoughts of the latest Harry Potter flick.
As you may have noticed when you read my book review of The Deathly Hallows (if you haven’t read it, it’s the [...]
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
What is this, you ask yourself. A book review of real novel without all that fancy schmancy Science Fiction or Fantasy things to befuddle the experience? A book review of a real classic, as if yours truly have ever been known to read those. Why, yes. Of course this is what it is. I won’t [...]
Thoughts On a Scarred Youth
There’s a good chance that you’ve become aware of much awaited book release lately. You’d have to be either a total hermit or in a severe coma to miss the the news that the latest Harry Potter book hit the shelves last Saturday. People had been lying outside bookstores for days and every shop with [...]
The Separation by Christopher Priest
Some of my more avid readers may remember a certain movie review of mine. The film in question was titled The Prestige and I claimed it be one of the very best films I’ve ever seen. In the very same review I vowed that I would read a novel by Christopher Priest, the author of [...]
The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
And to answer a special someone out there’s immediate question: Yes, I liked it.But I didn’t think it was great.
I picked up the The Drawing of the Dark solely because of Terje’s high opinion of it. I was expecting a Gaimanesque book with clever dialog, good characters and an elaborate plot. All though why I [...]
Storm Front by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)
Storm Front is the first book of an unfinished series about a wizard detective for hire. Nine books has so far been released and the series has gained quite the following, even managing to break into the New York Times Besteller List. The books have even been made into a television show, but it [...]
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War is one of those books every SF geek has to read at some point. It’s a true classic in every sense of the word, ranking up there with the likes of Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, Gibson’s Neuromancer and Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. The book won both the Nebula award [...]
Going Professional
Some three weeks ago I became aware of the fact that the up&coming Sci-fi writer, Tobias S. Buckell, was giving away copies of his two books, Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin to online reviewers. What the heck, I’m an online reviewer! Why shouldn’t I qualify?
So I sent Buckell an e-mail telling him about A Slight Apocalypse [...]
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