Not bad. A little heavy on aping Steinbeck, but everyone has to start somewhere.
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I’m a UNIX specialist in acadaemia working with particularly large computers in the fair city of Edinburgh. I sail boats, ride motorbikes, play banjo, and read far too much fantasy and science fiction.
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66% complete! Chewbury has read 8 of 12 books.
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Chewbury reviewed Blaze: A Novel by Stephen King
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Not bad. Maybe trying to be John Steinbeck a little harder than is respectful :)
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@joel@bookrastinating.com Remember reading this in the eighties as a teenager. I found the idea of becoming an addict by just being careless for a second quite terrifying. But then that’s how addiction happens in many cases!
Chewbury set a goal to read 12 books in 2025
Chewbury set a goal to read 12 books in 2025
Chewbury rated Killing Floor: 4 stars
Killing Floor by Lee Child (Jack Reacher (1))
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s …
Chewbury rated Bag of Bones: 5 stars
Bag of Bones by Stephen King, Empty Author
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, …
Chewbury rated What You Are Looking for Is in the Library: 4 stars
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Alison Watts, 青山美智子, Michiko Aoyama
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo''s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she is no ordinary librarian. Sensing …
Chewbury rated Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart: 5 stars
Chewbury rated Devils of D-Day: 4 stars
Graham Masterton: Devils of D-Day (Paperback, Pinnacle Books (Mm))
Devils of D-Day by Graham Masterton
UNHOLY TERROR...
September, 1944...the villagers of Pont D'Ouilly atill shudder at the memory of that infernal day when a …
Chewbury rated Foundation and Empire: 5 stars
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (Foundation, #2)
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the …
Chewbury rated The Ring of the Nibelung: 4 stars
Chewbury rated The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: 3 stars
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. …