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The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to "New York Times" bestseller "Daemon, Freedom" features a world …
Been meaning to read the sequel to Daemon for a couple of years, then when I started it I found I got five pages in and had to put it back and re-read Daemon. Enjoyable and all too believable in places, all too unbelievable in others. Disturbingly violent, possibly excessively so
Following the runaway success of his first nonfiction book, The Sea Hunters, Clive Cussler returns …
I'd read a few of these about thirty years ago. Ok, its an unbelievable page-turner adventure, but wow, incredibly cardboard, racist, sexist and unbelievable. Were they all as bad as this when I first read them or is this one just worse then usual?
Fascinating stuff on how people (and peoples) navigate, how navigation evolved. I think I learned more about the hypothalamus than I ever thought I'd need to know, although some of it was too in-depth and I just skimmed through that part of the science
Fascinating stuff on how people (and peoples) navigate, how navigation evolved. I think I learned more about the hypothalamus than I ever thought I'd need to know, although some of it was too in-depth and I just skimmed through that part of the science
I stumbled on another of H.V. Morton's books a few years ago and enjoyed his style, so picked this up in a second-hand shop when I saw it. Although written almost a hundred years ago the language is very readable, not noticeably "old", while the places and people that he described are clearly from another age - and he is often remaking that he's seeing the last of "an old way of life" as modern transport and communications comes more strongly into play, mixing and changing society
The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven …
I'd sworn off the whole series, just found them endlessly tedious after a while. At least this one got back to simple action and away from endless pages of political machinations
Enjoyable enough, especially for a $5 find in a discount pile. Not an easy read though, something about the author's style just made it harder going than other 'science lite' books I've read. A huge breadth of Madagascan history
Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong …
Very readable, eminently believable. Rolls along with the character and author well familiar with the internet and the surveillance-state
I guess I deserve this for jumping in at book two of a four book series - I picked up no. 2 and 4 from a box of freebies because I recognised the author's name and I'd enjoyed the Brother Cadfael novels years ago. Thrown in the deep end, English & Welsh history, lots of characters, lots of places in the landscape, I think you'll need a map and a family tree to follow what's going on. Mostly just went with the flow and enjoyed it as it went, letting the bigger picture lose itself in the background
Marina is a novel that belongs to young adult fiction by the Spanish writer Carlos …
Disturbingly spooky in places, and again, very evocative of Barcelona, the city is a major character in its own right
Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see …
I've had this kicking around in an EPUB for about five years, about time I got around to reading it! Enjoyed it more than I expected, the way you're thrown into the world with no explanation and figuring it out yourself
Simplistic and fun, enjoyed the whole series, although I realised afterwards that this is half of "John Carter of Mars", not just the same story by a different title
Simple, straightforward, outdated and cliched, I'm enjoying these far more than I should
Simple, straightforward, outdated and cliched, I'm enjoying these far more than I should
