Laura Lemay's Profile

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Laura Lemay is currently reading:

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

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Feb 13, 2012 07:59am
Laura Lemay gave to: The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody read in February, 2012	My rating:
Feb 12, 2012 02:04pm
Laura Lemay gave to: Passion (Fallen, #3) by Lauren Kate (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Jan 30, 2012 08:54am
Laura Lemay made a comment on Cait's review of Passion (Fallen, #3) "This review was SO much better than the book."
Jan 30, 2012 08:33am · see review
Laura Lemay gave to: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick	My rating:
I am conflicted about Phil Dick. Most of the time for me his writing is sloppy and poor. On the other hand his ideas are so unique and so....weird, that I still find him compelling. Dick feels like he is a writer barely in control of his talent....more
Jan 24, 2012 11:26am · see review
Laura Lemay gave to: Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan	My rating:
The second book in the Takeshi Kovacs series, and not nearly as good as the first book. Whereas the first book was a detective novel in an SF universe, this is more standard military SF, which I find much less interesting. The book is also not near...more
Jan 24, 2012 11:05am · see review
Laura Lemay gave to: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan	My rating:
I read this book some years ago, and re-read it this year. These days genre mashups are popular, but this was one of the first books to cross a hard-boiled detective with a science fiction world, and it works really, really well. The writing is goo...more
Jan 24, 2012 10:52am · see review
Laura Lemay gave to: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander	My rating:
This was a tremendously influential book, both on architecture and urban planning as well as software design, and that was the lens with which I read it. It's not really a book that you read -- it's a huge very dense book, and a lot of the pattern...more
Jan 24, 2012 10:47am · see review
Laura Lemay made a comment on her review of Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) "I grade hard. But it was not good."
Jan 24, 2012 09:21am · see review
Laura Lemay gave to: Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris read in January, 2012	My rating:
Jan 22, 2012 05:22pm