Literature & Fiction
Review:i loved this series!Left Behind is an obsession for me. The Mark wasn't what i thought it would be. it was a shocking, heart-wrenching book. The plot was slow at first then it went so fast i couldn't stop.... i would highly suggest this book. Read more
Review:This is another really enjoyable novel by Dan Simmons in my opinion, it isn't my favourite but it is very good. As ever, I find the prose to be excellent and his characters are three dimensional and realistic. The novel even contains some action sequences, which I didn't expect to come across in this book and those were done with Dan's very own panache. This book is considered to be a sequel of sorts to Dan's horror novel 'Summer Of Night'. While I think that this book can be read without readi... Read more
Review:Dan Simmons presents Calcutta as a city haunted by its past and present in Song of Kali. Writer Robert Luczak goes to Calcutta on an assignment to retrieve the manuscript of a massive poem written by the legendary Das. Das disappeared nearly a decade ago yet suddenly new works that appear to be his surface. Luczak is also supposed to try and interview the reclusive author while and takes his Indian born wife Amrita as interpreter and their baby Victoria. Luczak discovers that the poem that Das h... Read more
Review:Absolutely loved The Terror. Really liked Drood. Hyperion was pretty darned good too.
But this book? Holy sh*t!
I'll take a guess that the author never put it past an editor. The book is 80% overwritten -- and chock full of the author's political rants. I mean do we really need to know about how much you hate the Boulder, CO city council? For christ's sake. Does the truck driver really need to launch off on a long tirade about the 2012 election?
This book is absolute ... Read more
Review:Even now, decades after you'd think that such ideas have passed, some people still have a prejudice against science fiction as some sort of unsophisticated kiddie fare. If there was ever an author to show just how wrong that belief is, it would be Dan Simmons, who is able to write novels that are not only great science fiction, but great literature as well. The two are not mutually exclusive, as his novel Olympos demonstrates.
Olympos is the second part of Simmons's grand 1600+ page epi... Read more
Review:I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I download a lot of sample books for my Kindle and most are deleted when I finish reading the sample. This one I really, really wanted to know the rest of the story & boy, was I not disappointed. I've read other books by Mr. Simmons (like his terrifying "Song of Kali", also highly recommended) & I think I've liked this one the best. I thought it had a Lovecraft Mythos feel to it. Anyways, if you like reading about what we're capable of in the face of unthi... Read more
Review:As I write this review the audio version of Black Hills is not yet available from Amazon. My local library had it and it is wonderful!!!I am a book person. Buying with a single click is my favorite computer event. I love paper books. I love my Kindle. And since my current drive time is around 20 hours per week audio books are a new love.
Other reviewers compared this to other Dan Simmons books. Can't do that since I've never read them. I don't care. Most of what those reviewers sa... Read more
Review:I would highly recommend this book. A lot of surprises in it, things you would not think this book is about. Not saying too much else because I don't want to spoil it. But the devil had a little bit to do with it....Get the book, some author's I read don't surprise me...This one did....Loved this book!!!!! Read more
Review:Best series since the Ender and Shadow series by Card. His books paint an eloquent picture in the mind of world's, beings and characters you can not help but, fall in love with. Still flawed and and very human even when not truly so. I was unsure at the beginning of book 1 how I felt as it came across pompous but, soon came to realize it set the tone for the most amazing adventure. I read 3-6 SciFi/Fantasy novels a month and this is now in my top 3! Read more
