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This novel is a very interesting and unique murder mystery set in communist Russia following WWII. It doesn't come across as such until later in the book, at first seeming like a kind of espionage thriller. Really, it's kind of both. Eit...
I loved Ready Player One. I liked Ready Player 2. At that point I was "ready" for something different. And so I got excited when I found this stand alone novel by Ernest Kline that was not related to RP1. Sadly, they might as well have t...
There are several very good stories in this anthology. All are well written, but only a few stand out as particularly great. These are: Snapshot, Perfect State, Firstborn, and Moment Zero. I especially enjoyed Snapshot and Moment Zero as...
I did not enjoy this book at all. It was decently written, but that's about the best of its qualities. The characters are all brutal, unlikeable, unsympathetic people that I could not relate to or root for in any way. The plot is vague a...
This was not my favorite Poirot novel. I did really enjoy the setup and the mystery. I felt like I followed this one much better than some other Poirot novels I've read. My beef with this particular novel, "Hercule Poirot's CHRISTMAS", i...
I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I chose it simply because it was set in the 1940s (a requirement for a reading list I'm following), and because it involved the Loch Ness Monster. Maddie's internal growth across this book...
A very interesting look at the events surrounding the wreck of the HMS Wager. What the survivors endured for so long before finally making it back home to England is simply astounding. And the analysis of the varied versions of the tale,...
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