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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is the second …
A quick re-read so now I can restart number three and figure out what is going on -- had to revisit them one after I got ten pages into the third book for the first time and had no idea what was happening
The Industrialist: Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger Corp. is tormented by the loss …
Read this one and the sequel nine years ago, then finally picked up a copy of the third and started it recently ... but found I wanted to re-read the first two
What can I say, I mostly knew what was about to happen, but still gripping enough as i went through
Zoo City is a 2010 science fiction novel by South African author Lauren Beukes. It won the 2011 Arthur C. …
Zoo City is a 2010 science fiction novel by South African author Lauren Beukes. It …
Absolutely loved it, just refreshingly different and gripping. Another one that's been in the "to do" pile for far too long. It helped that it brought back memories of a month or two in Jo'burg
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis …
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie …
Working my way through my summer reading and the endless pile of books. Near future SF that I found more enjoyable and gripping than some of his other works, once a few suspensions of disbelief were made
read this over 25 years ago before travelling to Spain, then years later stumbled on a copy of a 2 volume edition in a 2nd shop. Been sitting on the shelf for years, decades... Holds up well, I love the way Michener describes his surrounds, even if it was from another thirty years earlier. Some things change enormously, some won't
I guess I need to read volume 2 now
Not really a review, just my ramblings about it. I've had the ebook for years but never got around to reading it, graphic novels aren't really my thing, and when I read them I much prefer a paper copy, the electronic version just doesn't grab me as much
Writing this a month later and I can't remember much of the story, just vague impressions of the art. Maybe I'll reread a paper copy one day
In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins …
Enjoyable enough, I've read it a few years ago and it was one of the few things on my ereader when I needed something and couldn't connect online
Seems a bit simplistic, aimed at a young adult audience. Enjoyable enough for a quick read
Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful …
Gripping, all too believable how it plays out. A typo. where someone "peddles" a bike rather than "pedals" it annoyed me far more than it should. Not convinced that the three books can be read standalone, perhaps the first one, but I don't think number two and three will stand alone
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized …
Quickly readable, aimed at a young audience, enjoyable enough but the author draws out each point endlessly, turning it into a "howto" for every topic mentioned
Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some …
Incredibly bleak. Depressingly believable in the circumstances happening, and this story as a result
Well written and very knowledgeable, it ties together the tiny bits of history that I do know with a much broader picture and how so much of it was a result of anglo-french politics & war
