kevinpotts rated Breakfast of champions: 2 stars
Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
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Heavy on sci-fi that respects physics, horror that literally keeps me up at night, abstract novellas that break my brain, fantasy that steps outside European colonialism, literature that glares angrily at the world, anything with broken and non-confirming characters, and any pop lit that has something to say. Non-fiction typically centers on exploratory deep dives on the natural world.
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kevinpotts rated Survivor: 3 stars
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in …
kevinpotts rated The Glass Hotel: 4 stars
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …
kevinpotts rated Snow Crash: 5 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison -- a writer so original he …
kevinpotts rated Anatomy: 4 stars
kevinpotts rated The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: 3 stars
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen by Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen was a major Harlem Renaissance author. Despite her lack of output, her art was powerful and well-received. This …
kevinpotts rated Persepolis Rising: 5 stars
kevinpotts rated Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: 5 stars
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions …
kevinpotts rated A Scanner Darkly: 3 stars
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, published in 1977. The semi-autobiographical story …
kevinpotts rated The Space Between Us: 3 stars
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to …
kevinpotts rated The Atlas Six: 4 stars
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake, Little Chmura
The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical …
kevinpotts rated Less Than Zero (Picador Books): 5 stars
Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost …
kevinpotts rated Lightseekers: 3 stars
kevinpotts rated A Master of Djinn: 3 stars
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, …
kevinpotts rated Priestdaddy: 4 stars
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met, a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves …