God, what the hell did I just read. I’m angry and annoyed that something with such a nice cover was so annoyingly vapid and pretentious at the same time. Ugh. Minus a million stars. Continue reading
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Book review: Radiance
I don’t even know where to start because this book made way too little sense and was too long for how little sense it made. If you’re a fan of pretty language and absurdist geographies and worlds (basically, if you like China Miéville), you’d probably love Catherynne M Valente’s book. As it’s got lots of … Continue reading
Book review: The Stand
What a bunch of bullshit. So the plot starts out as plague wipes out humanity and then turns into some mystical bollocks about a show down between good an evil. Perhaps if I wasn’t an atheist I would find it less awful, but as I am an atheist, I found the anti-intellectual, anti-progress, anti-rationalist twaddle … Continue reading
Book review: Sword of Shannara
I am very close to writing off most fantasy novels. Only Sunshine has saved the genre from a complete trashing. It is books like the Sword of Shannara that make me throw up my hands and want to give up. Perhaps I am being unfair, maybe something written lately will be better. Maybe. In priority … Continue reading
Book review: Lucifer’s Hammer
Where do you start. Maybe I’ll start with the tiny bit I did enjoy and then rant on from there. The last 100 pages were okay – it had some dramatic tension and all that jazz. They had a big battle and that was kind of fun. However. This does not make up for the … Continue reading
Book review: Conan the Barbarian
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. The grandfather of fantasy, Conan the Barbarian, sets the stage for all the ridiculous sexism that shows up in later fantasy novels. I wish I could say it was kind of a guilty pleasure like Starship Troopers but it’s not. It’s just…upsetting. There are a lot of stories, so … Continue reading
Book review: The Mote in God’s Eye
So, when I read Dune I realised that I hated the idea of some vast space empire built on heredity. I mean, Star Wars has an empire but we know it was because of Senator Palpatine. This book’s central government is a vast space empire, with a royal imperial family, that has other aristocrats afforded … Continue reading
Book review: The Left hand of God
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
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: 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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