Archive for the ‘Sci-Fi / Fantasy’ Category
#58 – Night Watch
Night Watch Sergei Lukyanenko Sci-Fi/Fantasy Read from 12/23/06 – 12/29/06 My grade: 6 First in a trilogy of modern fantasy books from Russia, where they are incredibly popular, and also have been made into a TV series – neat! Interesting premise – good and evil have a truce, and they police one another using their [...]
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#50 – Witches Abroad
Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett Sci-Fi/Humor Read from 11/20/06 – 11/23/06 My grade: 8 Pratchett always delivers the funny. I like the witches – they are my second favorite character set, after the Wizards. But Granny Weatherwax specifically is a unique character, and my favorite of Pratchett’s creations. Here, Granny et al. set out to prevent [...]
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#36 – Neverwhere
Neverwhere Neil Gaiman Scifi / Fantasy Read from 8/9 – 8/11 My Grade: 8 The other Gaiman I’ve read – American Gods and Good Omens – I didn’t like. Wait, I just looked it up, and I actually gave American Gods an 8 (and Good Omens a 5). I was surprised by the 8; I [...]
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#31 – Black Powder War
Black Powder War Naomi Novik Scifi / Fantasy Read from 7/11 – 7/13 My Grade: 10 Delicious! I want a dragon. I don’t care if this makes me a 15 year old underweight chess loving nerd. I want a dragon. Screw you. So many nice things showed up in this book – new fire-breathing dragon! [...]
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#28 – Throne of Jade
Throne of Jade Naomi Novik Scifi / Fantasy 6/29 – 7/1 My Grade: 10 China + Dragons + Novik = AWESOME. I can’t get over how much I like these books. Even knowing the depths of my own geekiness more than anyone else, I’m still surprised. I enjoyed the contrasted treatment of the dragons in [...]
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#26 – His Majesty’s Dragon
His Majesty’s Dragon Naomi Novik Sci-fi / Fantasy Read 6/22 My grade: 10 Shut up, this book was spectacular.
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#11 – For Us, The Living
For Us, The Living Robert Heinlein Sci-Fi Read from 3/14/06 – 3/19/06 My grade: 7 This isn’t really a novel, as the introduction would have told me had I read it in the store. It’s more like a one page story spread out over 400 pages of lectures from Heinlein about what the future will [...]
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#19 – Reaper Man
Reaper Man Terry Pratchett Sci-Fi/Humor Read from 7/6/05 – 7/9/05 My Grade: 8 Death sort of quits or gets fired, and a surplus of life builds up, creating zombies and souvenirs. You know, the usual. Always nice to see the wizards around, and I liked Death’s quiet adventure as a man. And wizard-zombie Windle Poons [...]
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#16 – Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein Sci-fi Read from 6/13/05 – 6/16/05 My Grade: 9 A human raised by Martians comes to Earth and hilarity ensues. Mike teaches his new friends all sorts of Martian powers, the consequences of sharing a glass of water, the rightness of orgies, and the delights of cannibalism. [...]
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#8 – The Brilliance of the Moon
The Brilliance of the Moon (#3 in the Tales of the Otori series) By Lian Hearn Fantasy? Read from 3/25/05 – 4/9/05 My Grade: 5 I’ve also read the first two books in this series. Ugh. The first book had such promise, but everything was downhill from there. I think she lost me when Takeo [...]
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#5 – Moving Pictures
Moving Pictures (#10 in the Discworld Series) By Terry Pratchett Sci-Fi/Humor Read from 2/15/05 – 2/20/05 My Grade: 7 I’ve also read the nine preceding books in the series, as well as #23 by accident. Fairly typical. I was pleased to see the Librarian and the wizards.
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