No Other Choice by T.L. Payne is the second book in the Fall of Houston five book series. I have a hard time reviewing this type of series by each book, so I'm talking about them all as a unit. This series could have benefited from some heavy editing. I think cutting it down to two (or possibly three) books would've been an improvement. A lot of the action in this story gets repetitive. People get into trouble, then fight their way out again and again. I got tired of the main character constantly saying all he wanted to do was protect his boy. I also thought the politics of the situation were a bit simplistic. Communist countries don't cooperate with each other just because they're communist. Unless I was a true blue fan of this genre, I'd skip it.
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Stonebender reviewed The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual …
Review of "Pilgrim's progress" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Stonebender reviewed No Way Out by T. L. Payne
Review of 'No Way Out' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
No Way Out by T.L. Payne is the first book in the Fall of Houston five book series. I have a hard time reviewing this type of series by each book, so I'm talking about them all as a unit. This series could have benefited from some heavy editing. I think cutting it down to two (or possibly three) books would've been an improvement. A lot of the action in this story gets repetitive. People get into trouble, then fight their way out again and again. I got tired of the main character constantly saying all he wanted to do was protect his boy. I also thought the politics of the situation were a bit simplistic. Communist countries don't cooperate with each other just because they're communist. Unless I was a true blue fan of this genre, I'd skip it.
Stonebender reviewed The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual …
Review of "Pilgrim's progress" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
No Man's Land by T.L. Payne is the last book in the Fall of Houston five book series. I have a hard time reviewing this type of series by each book, so I'm talking about them all as a unit. This series could have benefited from some heavy editing. I think cutting it down to two (or possibly three) books would've been an improvement. A lot of the action in this story gets repetitive. People get into trouble, then fight their way out again and again. I got tired of the main character constantly saying all he wanted to do was protect his boy. I also thought the politics of the situation were a bit simplistic. Communist countries don't cooperate with each other just because they're communist. Unless I was a true blue fan of this genre, I'd skip it.
Stonebender rated When the World Turns Dark: 2 stars
Stonebender rated The Naked Sun: 4 stars
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov (Robots #2)
On the remote planet Solaria the first murder for two hundred years has been committed. The Solarians are Spacers with …
Stonebender rated The Dragonriders of Pern: 3 stars
The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Finally together in one volume, the first three books in the world's most beloved science fiction series, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF …
Stonebender rated Erupting Danger (EMP Catastrophe): 2 stars
Stonebender rated Erupting Chaos: 2 stars
Stonebender rated Good Omens: 4 stars
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According to …
Stonebender rated Twenty Years After: 3 stars
Stonebender rated An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: 4 stars
Stonebender rated When the sleeper wakes: 4 stars
When the sleeper wakes by H. G. Wells (The annotated H.G. Wells ;)
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over …