« December, 2010 »
The Difference Engine 
by William and Bruce Gibson and Sterling (1992)
read: 23 December 2010
rating: [-]
category: scifi & fantasy
Apparently, I don’t dig Steampunk. I couldn’t get past page 100.
Night Relics
by James Blaylock (1996)
read: 20 December 2010
rating: [+]
category: fiction
Creepy. That is the best way to describe this book. It’s a ghost story, full of people with secrets, people seeing ghosts, and people trying to reconcile the two and figure out if they are connected. The book will send a chill up your spine at various points. It starts out quite creepy, gets a little slow in the middle, and then ends with a bang that left me a little confused. I’m not sure I really understand what happened in the end, and I suspect that was the intent of the author. Some things should not see the light.
Tongue of Serpents
by Naomi Novik (2010)
read: 16 December 2010
rating: [0]
category: scifi & fantasy
I’ve been a huge fan of this series, going so far as attending a reading and getting a book signed by Naomi. However, I felt like I was forcing myself to finish this book. Nothing really happens. They spend the entire book traveling across the bland and featureless desert landscape of Australia. There is no action, and the dragons self-absorption has become annoying. I’m sure I’ll finish out the series, but I hope the next book is far better.
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