Book Review : Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Hyperionby Dan Simmons After years of hearing "Hyperion is the bestest book evar!", I finally managed to read it. And frankly, it is pretty good. Set in the far future where humanity has created The Hegemony of Man, a culture that spans many planets thanks to portals ("farcasters") that have openings many ...

Book Review : Three Books

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke Possibly going for the title of "Most English Book Ever Written", Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell tells the unlikely story of two magicians in the early 1800s, a time when magic is all-but forgotten. The two title characters have very different ...

LibraryThing

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

I have quite a lot of books. I am not a book hoarder, I quite often do purges of books I don't intend to read again, but my bookcases are always overflowing. I have tried various methods of keeping track of what I have read, but nothing really seemed that ...

Book Bragging Rights (Fantasy Edition)

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Alright! This is the last one of these I am going to do, partly due to the time they take, but mostly because they make me look bad. Fantasy is a much (and accurately) maligned genre. Unlike SciFi, Fantasy cannot pretend that its authors are offering up visions of our ...

Book Bragging Rights (SciFi edition)

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Yesterdays list of the 100 best books was judged by some to be a little unfair to the more nerdy side of the spectrum. To make up for it, here is the same thing done with this list of the 100 top SciFi novels. Related posts:Book Review : Three Books Jonathan ...

Book Bragging Rights

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

A friend of mine (Hi Liesl!) recently went through a list of the 100 greatest books and marked off the ones she had read. She then posted it to Facebook, obviously proud of her total (53 - impressive). Related posts:Book Review : Three Books Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel ...

Book Review : A Wanderer’s Tale

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

The summer holidays are the one time of year when it is acceptable to stuff your face with cheap food and drink, and stuff your brain with cheap paperback novels. As with the food, you tend to have a good time during the consumption of the books but regret it ...