Review:enjoyed the book, have ordered the second book. not in the same regard as the Game of Thrones even though the last book of Thornes was not nearly as good as the first books, seems he got borded as i did Read more

Review:enjoyed the book, have ordered the second book. not in the same regard as the Game of Thrones even though the last book of Thornes was not nearly as good as the first books, seems he got borded as i did Read more

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:I really enjoy the various story lines couched in this period of history but this second book lacked as much development of the stories as the first. That's ok, I really enjoyed it and the third must have lots coming. 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: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:Another hit in the Dresden Files. Where does it stop? Jim Butcher gets better and better. I could not put this book down, because the action was as fast as you expect it in these series and the humor was right there where you needed it. The reader gets to know Molly a bit better and her talents develop during the book. But Harry stays alone and lonely. I am looking forward to the next book. Will Harry find his soul mate? 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

Review:The hero is mighty and just. Despite inner-turmoils regarding love, family, morality, and life, the hero shows infinite compassion to his companions and absolutely no mercy to his enemies.

Welcome to an entirely different kind of medieval fantasy.

If you're sick of all of the monotony of modern medieval fantasy, this series comes highly recommended. I'm a bit of a veteran of medieval fantasy and science fiction, and let me tell you, this book takes the age old cliches and turns the... Read more

Review:I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's the second in the mistborn series and highly addictive. I read the first one in paper back and once I got my kindle it was the first book I purchased. I would recommend for anyone who like sci-fi. Read more