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
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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: Pawn of Prophecy
Well. This was boring. But at least it went fast. Plot: Boy is uprooted from everything he knows and is moved about the country/world by his mysterious aunt and her compatriots. THAT’S IT. There’s no resolution! Who writes a book and expects it to do so well that all the interesting stuff will happen in … Continue reading
Book review: Perdido Street Station
So, after a bit of a break, here we are. Another book, another slightly ranty blog post about said book. Beware: spoilers. I want to say I enjoyed this book as it had some lovely ideas and was all imaginative and shit but on balance, I only liked about 45% of it. Like Neal Stephenson, … Continue reading
Book review: Hyperion
WAAAAA! Okay. So I’m a bit upset at the ending because THERE WAS NO ENDING. I’m going to have to read the second book because I want to know what happens to all the characters in this one. It started off a bit ‘what the fuck is going on’ as there were many words that … Continue reading
Book review: Kushiel’s Dart
Okay, so this book was equal parts intriguing, disturbing and frustrating. I’ve never read 50 Shades of Grey but this kind of felt like the medieval version of it. Okay, probably not like it all and since it’s not on the list, I’m not going to read it! So the plot revolves Phèdre who is … Continue reading
The List
I often talk about the List and that I’m working my way through it. So what are they? Fantasy Ray Bradbury, Something wicked this way comes, 147 pages Robert Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber, 175 pages Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melnibone, 181 pages Robert E Howard, Conan the Barbarian, 182 pages Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated … Continue reading
Book review: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
I think this is the first Jules Verne I’ve ever read. It was kind of laughably hilarious and completely improbable. So, plotwise it does what it says on the tin. A German professor finds a 16th century manuscript with a 12th century note that tells you the entrance the centre of the earth. The Professor … Continue reading
Book review: Anathem
I do not even know where to begin with this book. Okay, I do. With an editor. Holy shit. Long. So long. So overly and pointlessly long. Okay, maybe not. But LONG. It started slow, first 200 pages or so, with me going: what is the plot. What is going on. I do not understand. … Continue reading
Book review: The Princess Bride
Oh man. You know when you are looking forward to something because you loved something related. Then with inevitable huge, crushing disappointment, you get more and more sad about continuing said thing? Yup. So, anyone within a certain age range would have watched The Princess Bride and most of those people would say that they … Continue reading
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