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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg
Bloomsbury USA, 2004
Best Book I have ever read...
+ Instant Classic
+ Wonderfully Clever Book
+ The Line Between the Mystical and the Physical
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
Neal Stephenson
Spectra, 2000
Interesting story set in a nanotechnological future
+ The Best of What Science Fiction Should Be
+ Brilliant
In a future where nanotechnology is pervasive, a young girl who lives in poverty comes into possession of a new piece of cutting edge technology that comes in the form of a book with an artificial intelligence that is capable of educating and guiding her into adulthood through the medium of ...
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Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth
Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2001
This is a great collection of Tolkien work!
+ Unfinished Tales
+ Unfinished Tales
I read this book very quickly because I was so fascinated by all the works that Tolkien left unfinished at the time of his death. His son did a beautiful job of compiling these works into an organized book and I really enjoyed it.
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Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Avon, 2002
Nerds of the world, rejoice! Stephenson pens a zinger
+ Fantastic. Stephenson's best.
+ Count me as a fan
+ NOT WAR AND PEACE BUT......
+ Cryptonomicon
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Stardust
Neil Gaiman
Harper Perennial, 2001
charming fairy tale
+ "Go, And Catch a Falling Star..."
I'd started reading this one years ago, then put it down for some reason, and my daughter picked it up. She's nagged me on and off ever since to read it.
Stardust is a fairy tale, with all that implies. There's an impossible quest, true love, things that aren't what they seem, and the triumph of ...
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Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
Neal Stephenson
Spectra, 2000
Cyberpunk as Cultural Satire/Commentary
+ An amazing read
+ SNOW CRASH by Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash is a subversive, postmodern romp through a world defined by computers, religious fanaticism, commercialism, and near-anarchy. Hacker Hiro Protagonist delivers pizzas for a living for the now-respectable Mafia until a mishap unites him with a fifteen-year old, futuristic skateboarder ...
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The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be
Douglas Adams, John Lloyd
Three Rivers Press, 2005
I love it!
+ Amusing read for lunchbreaks
+ glorious
This book is wonderful- I really loved it and laughed out loud more than once. It' not for everybody, but it does have a wonderful sense of humor and it describes perfectly several situations you have lived trough. Too bad for the very British ones that I missed, not being British. But overall a ...
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Inkarri
Ryan SJ Miller
AuthorHouse, 2003
Excellent start by a new author
+ Inkarri - The Review
Inkarri, the first book of Ryan Miller, is a wonderful start to what promises to be a writing career full of potential should Mr. Miller choose to continue (and the book screams out for a sequel!). Set in our time, in the jungles of Peru from where the Incan empire once ruled over much of South ...
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Charles Neider
Doubleday, 1985
Easy to see why Twain is one of America's Classics
+ None more pithy
+ Great Book, Bad Edition
+ 5 stars for the work and 3 stars for the edition.
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Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
William Morrow, 1997
Mythic magic
+ Good solid read
+ If you liked Alice...
+ Fantastic narrative
+ The perfect book...
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Macabre Tales
H. P. Lovecraft
Arkham House Publishers Inc., 1985
About this edition . . . .
+ Great collection
+ The ultimate HP Lovecraft volume
+ Buy this book !
+ Preponderant Lovecraft has no comparison in the horror genre
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The Dunwich Horror And Others
H. P. Lovecraft
Arkham House Publishers, 1984
About this edition . . . .
+ Great collection
+ The ultimate HP Lovecraft volume
+ Buy this book !
+ Preponderant Lovecraft has no comparison in the horror genre
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Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts
Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, ...
Beaufort Books, 1984
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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Neal Stephenson
William Morrow, 2003
Nearly Perfect Reading!
+ A fun way to learn some history
+ Just what I was looking for...
+ Part 1 of a lengthy epic
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The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)
Neal Stephenson
William Morrow, 2004
Epic History Made Readable
+ Not a review
+ Great Fun for the doorstop fiction set
+ Not for everyone
+ The End of the Beginning
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