It’s true. As of October 28th I’m starting over… 34 books last year (from Oct 28 2002- Oct 27 2003.) I’ll be doing a recap soon I think. I’m also going to do movie this year. What fun we’ll have. … Continue reading →

The Machine Crusade. This one starts REALLY slowly. It’s “a long hard slog” for the first two hundred or so pages and then really starts to move with a lot more urgency leading up to a pretty heavy finale. Not … Continue reading →

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson. I’ll have to reserve full judgment until next September when the third and final volume of this massive work is out. So far, it’s a dense, multifaceted, solidly written book. If … Continue reading →

Ring by Koji Suzuki. Good stuff, although it’s more of a detective story than anything else. The bone chilling Lovecraftian horror of the movie isn’t really to be found here. Not necessarily a bad thing, of course, it’s just different. … Continue reading →

Ambient by Jack Womack. This one was better than the last. He really goes off with the dialogue in this one, tossing two separate but equally creative strains of English at the reader. This one is also central to the … Continue reading →