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Mike Reeves-McMillan
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I’d like to report a partially failed experiment.
See, I get bored easily, and I have an overactive imagination. (It’s amazing I did so well at school, really.) Accordingly, I try things that might or might not work, to see what happens. It often produces less reliable results than sticking to what everyone else does, but it’s worth it to me for the times I manage to pull it off, and it’s more i...
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City of Masks
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Realmgolds
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Gu
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Changing Health Behaviours: Techniques to change your life for the better
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This novel was a huge disappointment. The plot was intriguing and the first half or so of the book maintained my attention. However, the book quickly devolved into something that I couldn't wait to finish because I was tired of the problems I foun...
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| I read this a long time ago. I also got the other two in the trilogy, but my memory is that I didn't make it all the way through them, because the highly formal language kept me from connecting with the characters. The slow-moving plot didn't help mu...more | |
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This is my first Jack Vance book, and I was really expecting to like it, but was disappointed. It's okay, and comes to a satisfactory conclusion, but I almost gave up a couple times at the dry, boring storyline and the odd, ponderous dialogue.
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| It's always a pleasure for me to read a new Lindsay Buroker. She is one of the authors that, if Amazon had an "automatically buy everything this person writes" feature, would be on my autobuy list. The combination of humour, action, decent editing (t...more | |
| "My book review for the anthology, Like Water for Quarks, went live on SF Signal yesterday, and with it came a pretty upset commenter. This person thinks I should leave my personal convictions out of my reviews, to put it lightly. I’d like to clear..." Read more of this blog post » | |
“The wrong thing being?” asks Halwaz.
“Closing up their source, of course,” you say, in a tone which implies, “Did you think I was merely talking about their sacrificing small fuzzy animals in an attempt to bring back ancient evil gods?”
― Mike Reeves-McMillan, Gu
“Closing up their source, of course,” you say, in a tone which implies, “Did you think I was merely talking about their sacrificing small fuzzy animals in an attempt to bring back ancient evil gods?”
― Mike Reeves-McMillan, Gu
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red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of
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Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.”
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