larcher rated The Fault in Our Stars: 5 stars
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her …
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larcher rated Quicksilver: 4 stars
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (2006, HarperTorch)
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (The Baroque Cycle, #1/8)
In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era …
larcher rated The Hunger Games: 3 stars
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games, #1)
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded …
larcher rated Robot Artists & Black Swans: 4 stars
Robot Artists & Black Swans by Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Dario Tonani, and 2 others
In the Esoteric City, a Turinese businessman's act of necromancy is catching up with him. The Black Swan, a rogue …
larcher rated How Markets Fail: 4 stars
How Markets Fail by John Cassidy
Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For …
larcher rated Permutation City: 4 stars
Permutation City by Greg Egan
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in …
larcher rated The Da Vinci Code: 2 stars
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Robert Langdon, #2)
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the …
larcher rated Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking: 3 stars
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of …
larcher rated 2001: A Space Odyssey: 4 stars
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (Space Odyssey, #1)
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.
So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time …
larcher rated Snow Crash: 5 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …
larcher rated Slaughterhouse-Five: 5 stars
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is …
larcher rated Life, the Universe, and Everything: 4 stars
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy …
larcher rated The Diamond Age: 5 stars
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth …