Posted in Books, Reviews on 8 May 2008 | No Comments »
This chapter of the Wild Cards saga employs the now-familiar technique of dividing the narrative in two and presenting the bifurcated story in separate volumes. It’s happened before in this series (books six and seven) and George R R Martin has also done it with the last and next volumes of A Song of Ice [...]
Posted in Books, Reviews on 20 April 2008 | No Comments »
This, the ninth Wild Cards book, continues the story begun in One-Eyed Jacks, and it works a lot better, although still not as well as earlier volumes.
The main problem (as it was with book eight) is the structure: short stories worked perfectly for the original Wild Cards book because each story showed one episode from [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books on 13 April 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve added a new page to my beautiful web log: Book Reviews. As you might be able to deduce from the cryptic title, it brings together links to all the book reviews I’ve posted in the last two years.
There are fifty authors represented in the list (more, actually, taking co-authorship into account), from Adichie (as [...]
Posted in Books, Reviews on 11 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Unusually, Martin isn’t credited as an author of any part of this, book eight of the Wild Cards series. Also, the book takes the form of linked short stories, much like the very first volume, instead of a ‘mosaic novel’, like most of the other books. I think it suffers a little on both counts.
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Posted in Books, Politics on 2 April 2008 | No Comments »
I bought a couple of books recently - The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umbertor Eco, from Footsteps, a bookshop café in Whaley Bridge and I’ve just now got hold of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Neither, as I’m sure you know but I’ll point it out anyway, regardless of the comment’s [...]
Posted in Books, Reviews on 1 April 2008 | No Comments »
The Chronicles of Morgaine is a trilogy consisting of Gate of Ivrel (1976), Well of Shiuan (197 and Fires of Azeroth (1979) (and I’ve just learned there’s a fourth book, written much later: Exile’s Gate - I’ll have to get hold of that). I’ve owned this particular book for two or three years, having [...]
Posted in Books on 28 March 2008 | No Comments »
Someone called Lindsay Addison has created a website with a pretty comprehensive listing of obscure (and some that I personally consider obscure) words used in the various Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. It’s called Stephen R. Donaldson Ate My Dictionary, and I salute it and its creator.
Posted in Books on 18 March 2008 | No Comments »
George R R Martin has just revealed the US and British covers of the long-awaited A Dance with Dragons on his blog. Naturally, the British one is far superior.
Posted in Books, Reviews on 13 March 2008 | No Comments »
Most books one reads, one has little idea what exactly will happen, but reading the original novel of one of the most famousest stories ever is a little different. My secondhand edition is actually a tie-in with the Francis Ford Copola film from the 1990s (how long ago that was), which I’ve seen, but not [...]
Posted in Books, Life, Music on 11 March 2008 | 6 Comments »
Last week I posted a box of books to a friend in Korea. The books are for me - they’re a selection of books I own but haven’t read, and really ought to read. Plus, it’ll save me having to buy books over there (although I like buying books - hence all these unread ones). [...]
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