Nation by Terry Pratchett – Review
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Neatly balancing the somber and the wildly humorous in a riveting tale of discovery, Pratchett shows himself at the height of his powers.
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Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett – Review
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Unseen Academicals (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
Unseen Academicals made it into my top ten reads of 2009 so you’ll guess that I enjoyed it. It’s my first adult Pratchett after a several year gap and he hasn’t lost his touch. I probably needed the break to appreciate how good he can be at looking at people [...]
The Tiger Warrior by David Gibbins – Review
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The Tiger Warrior by David Gibbins
It is an exhilarating read – if you’ve read David Gibbins before you will not be disappointed as the exposition is there, how Jack sits down and spins a tale of a discovery is amazing to read and one of the best things in the book which I thoroughly enjoy. [...]
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett – Review
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A Hat Full of Sky: The Continuing Adventures of Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
I think the reason I liked this book so much was that it had a good balance of all of the elements that go into YA fantasy. Before I found the Tiffany Aching books, I’d only read [...]
Blood and Ice by Robert Masello – Review
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Blood and Ice by Robert Masello
Other minor issues include the book being just a tad too long, a few predictable moments that are telegraphed too obviously by the author, a somewhat anticlimactic ending, and a couple of highly convenient plot devices like the discovery of a new species of fish that offers the solution to [...]
Hangman Blind by Cassandra Clark – Review
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Hangman Blind by Cassandra Clark
1382 is a good year in which to set a crime novel. Richard II is still a minor, so instability abounds; pockets of resistance remain after Wat Tyler’s rebellion and there’s a superfluity of popes adding to the religious turmoil already fuelled by Wycliffe and his vernacular Bible. Much of England [...]
Nation by Terry Pratchett – Review
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Nation by Terry Pratchett
At one point in this excellent new novel, a boy named Mau desperately needs to find milk for a starving infant. Unfortunately, he’s on a virtually deserted island, and there just aren’t any cows or nursing mothers around. There is only one possible source of nourishment for the baby, and Mau risks [...]
Nation by Terry Pratchett – Interview
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Nation by Terry Pratchett
Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Nation, deals with the island survivors of a tsunami, but the first pieces of the story came to him about six months before the 2004 tsunami that devastated several Asian countries.
“I’d hate people to think that I was being [...]
Karma Coalition by Shawn Christensen – Movie News
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Karma Coalition by Shawn Christensen
Warner Brothers has snapped up Shawn Christensen’s SF thriller Karma Coalition for Dan Lin to produce, Variety reported.
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Karma Coalition centers on a falsely accused fugitive who embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind his wife’s death before the world comes to an end.
Karma Coalition by Shawn Christensen – Movie [...]
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd – Review
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
There can be no faulting Peter Ackroyd’s new novel for any lack of ingenuity. Here is the story of Frankenstein as told, or rather re-told, by Victor Frankenstein himself. Nothing unusual about this – except that Ackroyd has mixed together both the originl story and the real-life events [...]
The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson – Review
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The Act of Love: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
Jacobson has chosen to speak through this voice, which can be in turns tedious, ridiculous and overwrought. So we must blame Jacobson for, say, making small matters loom too large: the lined face “suggesting ecological catastrophe”; “the apocalyptic impatience” of desire; the end of an affair linked [...]
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