JasonsGrooveMachine rated Whipping star: 4 stars
Pretty solid little book. Very early Michael Crichton. Nothing spectacular but a good enough little crime novel to keep me - someone who isn't into them - interested.
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JasonsGrooveMachine reviewed Easy Go by Michael Crichton
Easy Read
3 stars
JasonsGrooveMachine finished reading Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
Coyote Blue is a novel by American writer Christopher Moore, published in 1994. The plot …
Not my favorite Christopher Moore book, but it's a good one. Plus, thanks to this book, I asked ol' Christ if there's a chronological order to all of these books and he said yes, kind of.
JasonsGrooveMachine rated Maxwell's Demon: 5 stars
JasonsGrooveMachine reviewed Ulysses by James Joyce
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in …
I Get It
4 stars
After getting through this here's what I've got.
This is a book that happens in 3 halves. I know how that sounds but it's the best way to describe it.
The first half? Fantastic. Loved it. Second half? Confusing as hell. All over the place. And I feel a lot of what's in here could have been left out. Third half? Fantastic. Loved it.
JasonsGrooveMachine rated Call for the Dead: 4 stars
JasonsGrooveMachine rated The White Plague: 4 stars
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
What if women were an endangered species?
It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent …
JasonsGrooveMachine rated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 4 stars
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) (commonly shortened to "Alice in Wonderland") is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge …
JasonsGrooveMachine reviewed The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the …
Not What I Expected
4 stars
I wasn't expecting this. Not after all the violence and everything anyway.
The book is unexpectedly funny, full of a lot of history I don't totally know myself - so I'll have to do some research. But it was a fun read, and enlightening read for the most part, and I plan on reading it again after I've learned a little more.
JasonsGrooveMachine finished reading The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf'y as comf'y could …
Not my favorite Kipling but it's his first legit novel so it's a little of a shake at the start. It does pick up though and I think maintains fairly well.
Most of the characters are realistic enough to be unlikeable, which I appreciate.
JasonsGrooveMachine rated The Light That Failed: 3 stars
The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf'y as comf'y could be; And I was to …
JasonsGrooveMachine finished reading The White Plague by Frank Herbert
What if women were an endangered species?
It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout …
This is my second time through this book and it's still good. It's meaning to me has changed as my knowledge of Ireland has grown. And covid changed everything.
But which it's good, it's not Frank's best work.
I'm glad to have finished it again, and I'd read it again. But I'd probably give it another 10-15 years till the next time.
JasonsGrooveMachine reviewed The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Tragic and Perfect
5 stars
This is the first McCarthy I've read. I've seen No Country but that's another story, literally.
I got a lot of Stephen King vibes from this. Not just that we're in a post apocalyptic world and follow survivors (The Stand, The Dark Tower, Night Surf, etc.), but the writing style is similar. Cormac uses a lot of the same phrases repeatedly in this story and King does the same in most of his, they even both use "You know that, don't you?" pretty frequently.
I feel for the father. I feel for the boy. I wanted to know more about Eli and some of the other characters. I want to know more about what happened to get us to where we are now.
I do feel like serendipity was a little too kind to our heroes at times. Just when they were at their lowest things always turned around with …
This is the first McCarthy I've read. I've seen No Country but that's another story, literally.
I got a lot of Stephen King vibes from this. Not just that we're in a post apocalyptic world and follow survivors (The Stand, The Dark Tower, Night Surf, etc.), but the writing style is similar. Cormac uses a lot of the same phrases repeatedly in this story and King does the same in most of his, they even both use "You know that, don't you?" pretty frequently.
I feel for the father. I feel for the boy. I wanted to know more about Eli and some of the other characters. I want to know more about what happened to get us to where we are now.
I do feel like serendipity was a little too kind to our heroes at times. Just when they were at their lowest things always turned around with a boon. But that did allow me more time with the two.
I'm glad I read it.