I’ve owned this book for a while, and now really regret not reading it the second it hit my shelves. Its amazingly good for a first book, and is definitely as good as The Forever War and Forever Peace, and better than Starship Troopers. I’m very very impressed with it. An excellent book if you’re…
Month: November 2010
Breakfast of Champions
This is a pretty odd book. It was given to me as a gift, and its a meandering tale about a failed science fiction writer. The author even appears as a character. The style is interesting, as the text stops for frequent illustrations, which is something I haven’t seen before. However, the story doesn’t really…
Books read in October 2010
I Know You Got Soul Consider Plebas Destinies Volume 1 Number 1 The Accidental Time Machine Camouflage Mars: A Survival Guide The Hemingway Hoax The System of the World Zodiac
Zodiac
This isn’t Neal’s best work, and I found the second half a little hard to read — I think because it meandered, with several theories for who was responsible being interchanged. They were all reasonable theories, but the jump between each of them was jarring and could have been better done. The version of the…