Science Fiction
Review:I can't call this book a typical King's book. The book discription can mislid you to think there's a connection to "It" but it doesn't. the book is about dealing with the past and the present. the book is about a trip gone bad when everyting goes wrong. But in my opinion the book is about King's fighting his own demones. Like in every king's book you can find a character who resamble himself ,and here one of the characters had a resent accidant (like King) and by that his diffrent from everyone ... Read more
Review:I really, really tried to make it to the end.
I made it through 450 pages. Then my
teeth started to fall out and I had a compulsion
to go out in the yard and start digging!!!! This was
pretty silly and redundant. Same, same, same, page
after page after page after page. Probably could have
boiled away all of the excess and ended up with a decent
book of about ?? 200 ?? pages or so. This book should
have been beamed to ALTAIR-4. Read more
Review:Stephen King's most recent novel was perhaps his worst. The story is more of a series of stories all reflecting upon a rather dull, old, Buick which, frankly, isn't scary. The flat plot gradually leads to vapid climax and finally an ending which cannot even satiate the reader's longing to discover some information about the curiously entriging Buick. Instead of suspence and terror, King points out the human proclivity to inquire about the unknown and question questions that cannot be answered. T... Read more
Review:This reads exactly like a work of The Bard... I knew the moment I heard about this adaptation that I needed to get a copy, and I was not mistaken. Now if only someone would put this on stage as an actual play... the Force would truly be with me! Read more
Review:There's been a lot of (justified) criticism of George Lucas' cheesy writing style, and there's some trepidation about how JJ Abrams will handle the new sequel. So who could produce a Star Wars script that exceeds expectations?
How about Shakespeare?
That seems to be the idea behind Ian Doescher's "William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy," a deliciously witty reimagining of the Star Wars saga in glorious iambic pentameter. While obviously a very funny spoof ("Now is the summer of ou... Read more
Review:This novel has been critised for being overly complex and slow. It is complex but not slow, givven the numerous threads that are developed. Well worth reading. I'm a Richard Morgan groupie - waiting for the next volume! Read more
Review:KSR seems to have been in slow decline since sometime near the beginning of Blue Mars. I tried three times to get through this novel and just didn't have the stamina. Gripping science fiction must, first of all, be gripping fiction. He's lost his grip and run his course, I'm afraid. Read more
Review:Overly sweet family hounded by overly ignorant crooks.
The plan is to torch and polute half the county in order to develop building lots and make Chinese food even cheaper.
After terrific mayhem the moderately smart kids happily settle down with their opposable-thumbed microsurgical genius dogs.
Its probably worth reconsidering who pours kibble for whom. Read more
Review:Normally I am not a fan of the Cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. I find it pretentious and overly cryptic, not to mention gloomy. While Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" does tend to these qualities, the fun and immersion in the world he's created compensates for any faults of the genre. Compared to Neuromancer, for example, the prose is very clear and, although violent and quite dystopic, the book is still a rousing adventure and a fun read.
Young Nell's home life is awful. Her mo... Read more