Review:So I guess I may be a Stephenson fanboy. I started out with his more traditional science fiction books and really enjoyed them. However, even with Diamond Age, you could see Stephenson's tendency towards long discourses that may or may not relate entirely to the story at hand.

I found this book to be overly long and full of various discourses that went meandering about, sometimes with only a tenuous connection to the main plot. For all that, I found the story to be incredibly intriguin... Read more

Review:Loved it!

Great compelling story with believable characters. I felt the end was rushed, and a direction not supported enough by the story but it was understandable, and I'm excited to read the next. Read more

Review:It's been a long time since I was disappointed in a Stephenson book. This one just feels like he's writing it for his own amusement, spending most of its time poking fun at government bureaucracy and offering giggly sex stories with a maturity level somewhere between middle school and 90's sitcom. Normally spot on with his depictions of technology, this time it's hand wavy at best, ending up with "something something super cooling plus quantum stuff equals magic." This from an author who wrote... Read more

Review:Superb! A vision of the future of a future where humans are still very human but reality is well..... Peripheral!
So many ideas, down to earth yet soaring. From the hillbilly trailer down by the creek to the baroque RV of a strangely Victorian London future, a great engrossing tale.
Couldn't put it down.
Gibson is still the King! Read more

Review:This book was a huge disappointment. I loved Snow Crash & Diamond Age, but I couldnt' even finish reading Zodiac. It's not nearly as engaging as the other books, and most of the time plain out boring. I don't recommend it. Read more

Review:Frankly, this novel suffered many of the same weaknesses of the first. It is better in that you've become used to characters making idiotic, unrealistic, and completely out of character, decisions. Unfortunately since so much of the plot is driven by character actions, those actions are critical to a plausible story line.

...When you tie in utterly unrealistic 'acts of god', and farcical physics assumptions, things go from "... a stretch" to "...just plain stupid" Read more

Review:I have read the first two Vega Jane books and I absolutely loved them! I just started The Width of the World and it is equally and even more amazing than the first two! I highly recommend this book and the entire series! Read more

Review:The Washington Post has built a sizable army of reporters to dig into every facet of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's life under orders of new owner Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and Democratic Party donor.

Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward revealed Wednesday that the Post has assigned 20 staffers to Trump. In addition the paper plans a book.

"There's a lot we don't know," he told the National Association of Realtors convention in Washington. "We have 20 people wo... Read more

Review:I’m a fan of Louise Erdrich and even took a college course devoted to her body of work, so I was really excited about this book. I was intrigued by its premise, as it’s a very different kind of story from anything else she’s written. Unfortunately, I disliked this book so much I couldn’t even finish it - I found it confusing and boring, with a storyline that never really seems to get off the ground. Erdrich is a great writer, but this book is a rare misstep for her. The characters in this book a... Read more

Review:The Paper Menagerie isn't just a collection of some writer's short stories. It's Literature. (Yes. With a capital "L"!)
Some stories deal with China; some deal with being Chinese American. But I think anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in any situation can identify the feelings expressed here.
And there are even lessons: A very moving personal story, as in "The Paper Menagerie" (which had me shedding a tear at the end) and societal history, as in "All the Flavors".
In short: Thou... Read more