Holy horseshit. That would be my two word review of this book. It was just so dumb and terrible, it’s hard to get angry about – other than I wasted my Sunday reading it. So, it takes place in what seems to be a dystopian version of European pre-Reformation Europe. There are some super-holy ridiculously … Continue reading
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Book review: 20,000 leagues under the sea
That was such a hard slog. We can probably cut ol’ Jules Verne some slack given he helped start the genre but holy crap that was quite tedious. So, first off, I don’t think there is one single woman in the book (there are crowds of people on a boat but there’s no single defined … Continue reading
Book review: Elric of Melniboné
God. I’m getting tired of these. Really. Maybe this was good when it was published in the 1970s but god, it’s just…ugh. So, plot: in some mystical land, where everyone is an arrogant, self-entitled, slave-owning bastard – you’re supposed to like this one particular arrogant, self-entitled, slave-owning bastard because he’s got ‘weak blood’ and talks … Continue reading
Book review: The Road
OMG. How depressing was this!? How did they say ‘yeah, that’ll make a great film where EVERYONE WILL CRY FOREVER.’ So plot. End of the world, everything is dead and dying, people have turned to cannibals as they scavenge the dying world for things to eat. A man and his son are walking the road, … Continue reading
Book review: The Doomsday Book
Right off the bat: brilliant. So the plot is that in the future, we can send historians back in time (if the conditions are right). The protagonist, Kivrin was supposed to be sent back to 1320 but instead ends up at the height of the plague in 1348. At the same time, chaos breaks out … Continue reading
Book review: Nine Princes in Amber
So Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny is part of a whole suite of novels about a place called Amber. I don’t know if I’m going to bother with the rest. So Amber is the true world, all the rest of the world’s (including this one) are just shadows of Amber (it’s a bit … Continue reading
Book review: Slaughterhouse Five
So let me start off by saying I liked it but I’m not sure I understood it. The plot centres around Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes ‘unstuck in time’, is kidnapped by aliens and also witnesses the fire bombing of Dresden. We follow his life backwards and forwards in time – from his birth … Continue reading
Book review: Watership Down
Well, it’s been awhile since I read a book from the list as I’ve been busy reading other things. Anyway, here goes. So the plot is that a bunch of rabbits leave their warren after the urging of one of the rabbit’s having a vision of disaster befalling it. After a long arduous journey, they … Continue reading
Book review: The quest for a moral compass
Perhaps I needed a break from the swathe of somewhat trashy science fiction or maybe I just wanted to feel clever, but for whatever reason, I picked up this book. @Psythor had bought it and it had been perched precariously upon a stack of other books we had purchased recently, but hadn’t put away properly. … Continue reading
Book review: Lord Foul’s Bane
I’m torn. I’m torn between naming this as the worst book so far or leaving it with A Spell for Chameleon. It’s probably just below it as it has a more positive view of women…sort of. So the plot. Thomas Covenant has leprosy. He get’s hit by a car and is suddenly in ‘the Land’. … Continue reading
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