List of Book Reviews

[inverarity]

Index of all books I have reviewed on this LJ, in alphabetical order by authors' last names.

I usually cross-post my reviews to bookish , as well as sf_book_reviews , sf_with_bite , and/or fantasywithbite , as appropriate.

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Bacigalupi, Paolo: The Windup Girl
Bradbury, Ray: The Illustrated Man
Burt, Andrew: Privacy Most Public
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
                                 Mockingjay
Corson, Trevor: The Story of Sushi
Cronin, Justin: The Passage
Day, Thomas A.: A Grey Moon Over China
Deas, Stephen: The Adamantine Palace
Demick, Barbara: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Doctorow, Cory: Little Brother
Fleming, Ian: Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories
Grisham, John: The Appeal
Grossman, Lev: The Magicians
Harkaway, Nick: The Gone-Away World
Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go
Jemisin, N.K.: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
                          The Broken Kingdoms
King, Stephen: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Lackey, Mercedes and Libbey, Steve: The Secret World Chronicle
Lewis, Michael: The Big Short
Matheson, Richard: I Am Legend
McCarthy, Cormac: No Country for Old Men
                                   The Road
Mitchell, David: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Moon, Elizabeth: Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion, Book One)
                              The Speed of Dark
Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood
Niven, Larry, Pournelle, Jerry, and Flynn, Michael: Fallen Angels
Okrent, Arika: In the Land of Invented Languages
Preston, L.M.: The Pack
Puzo, Mario: The Godfather
Reding, Nick: Methland
Reynolds, Alastair: House of Suns
Rothfuss, Patrick: The Name of the Wind
Sanderson, Brandon: Mistborn (trilogy)
                                        The Way of Kings
Scalzi, John: The God Engines
Simak, Clifford D.: Way Station
Steakley, John: Armor
Stross, Charles: Accelerando
Theroux, Marcel: Far North
Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces
Tregillis, Ian: Bitter Seeds
Trussoni, Danielle: Angelology
Tyson, Timothy: Blood Done Sign My Name
Ulinich, Anya: Petropolis
Weber, David: Out of the Dark
Wilson, Cintra: A Massive Swelling
White, Skyler: and Falling, Fly
Yegulalp, Serdar: Summerworld
Youmans, Marly: The Curse of the Raven Mocker
                               Ingledove
Zelazny, Roger: This Immortal

Comments

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

That is truly a monumental list! Awesome!!

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[fenrir77.livejournal.com]

Hi there :)

Long term fan of your writing, first reading your HHD on mugglenet fanfiction and then the quality of that convinced me to get over my initial scepticism about your AQ series. Which I am delighted I did, I finished the first two books within a week and began reading The Deathly Regiment just as it was being uploaded.

The constant checking of your website for AQ updates got me reading your reviews as well.

While we have varied reading tastes a few have looked interesting enough for me to read (Such as "The Magicians" which I intend to buy when I get time...), a few classics I got an overview of and even when I am not interested in the subject, I still find you a good enough reviewer to read anyway, even though I am not a massive reader. Just really to say thank you.

I also wonder if you had any plans to review George R. R. Martins series, A Song of Ice and Fire? I know I sound a bit fanboyish here but I found it revolutionary and I wonder if I just have book-goggles on while reading it or if someone wider read would find it as compelling as the amount of twists and turns in it, in a good way, ruined TV series' like Homeland, as I was able to predict many of the twists due to the forward thinking paranoia that GRRM instilled.

I would also wonder if you planned to review books like C.S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, or Tolkien? You have alluded to reading Lewis previously and I would love to hear your opinion on both.

Finally, if you are looking for an under-rated series, Glenn Cooks "The Black Company" series is worth a look. Each book being relatively short and the first relatively predictable in instances, his unique telling of the story, drawing on his own experience, really is fantastic. It starts of as a slog to read but, and you don't notice it, you slowly find yourself falling in love with the books.

Thanks again :) Looking forward to reading your SF novel when it comes out :)

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Thanks for your kind words.

I have not read ASoIaF yet - I do intend to get to it eventually, but it's hard to work up enthusiasm to dive into a massive epic fantasy series that isn't even finished yet. I may wait until the last book is published... sometime this century.

I read The Chronicles of Narnia when I was much younger. I don't have any immediate plans to reread it (I don't think I'd like C.S. Lewis much now that I'm older and more atheistic), but I may do so someday.

Tolkien is another one on my TBR list. Yeah, I have never actually read LotR all the way through - heresy, I know.

I've heard of Glenn Cook, but not read anything by him. May try him out one of these days, if I find one of his books while I'm in the mood.

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Wandered here from bookish. OMG, this is amazing!

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