The Gunslinger
Stephen King’s voice is smooth, straightforward, easily digested. Technically, aesthetically, he is quite good at that voice - but I don’t think when it comes down to it, that I care very much for it. It is maybe without flaws,...
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The Honjin Murders
I was curious what a classic Japanese murder mystery would be and I think actually it is not entirely my cup of tea. There is a sparsity of prose that I recognize and value in other contexts as somewhat emblematic...
Stoner
I think I spend too much time trying to solve for the author of a book, in general, when I read. Really I suppose I should kill the author, that is the cool thing to do. But I think here...
A Passage to India
A Passage to India is a moral story of a friendship, and I want to be able to say that the moral story that it tells is of course completely obvious these days and is in fact full of its...
Black Sun
Pretty good, really! It is a bit tropey, the pirate mermaid is a good bit and some fun sociopolitical drama is scattered throughout, has a refreshing fantasy setting. I think, had I read this when I was younger, I would...
Inherent Vice
When it comes down to it, this is basically just Bleeding Edge but with more Genre. Enjoyable enough as a detective mystery, and the counterculture voice is kind of fun - and, as I listened to the audiobook, Ron McLarty’s...
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Fun & funky pursuit of a killer and pursuite of the killt, whodunnit and also just whatdunandwen, little bit of Christie and a little bit of Groundhog day, and a little bit of (frankly, somewhat cumbersome) sci-fi oddity. That frame...
As I lay Dying
I don’t think I gave this book a fair hand, I don’t think the audio book did well. I was worse at following it than I was with my recent forays into Joyce, despite Faulkner’s comparatively straightforward story and language....
The Very Best of the Best
The Potter of Bones
Jingo
Not Pratchett’s best, not the best Pratchett featuring these characters, but I mean, still Pratchett, still heartfelt and earnest light silly fantasy about racism and war. Good fun, and would recommend, but maybe not for someone’s first experience of Discworld....