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James’s 2025 Year in Books
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| As someone approaching my mid-70s, the age the protagonist John Perry joined the Colonial Defense Force (CDF), I felt Scalzi's treatment of older people, especially in the first part of the book, not to be very credible. Perry, in preparing to leave ...more | |
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| I've never read one of the author's novels before so I don't know if this is typical of his writing. It was an easy and short read but in many ways, covering very familiar territory. That territory included colonization, manipulation of a lesser deve ...more | |
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| Interesting events but full of missed opportunities to make a good story truly great. I generally enjoy the series but if the author had it to do over again, she could have smoothed out the pacing and really explored the potential of the worlds she c ...more | |
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| Russell and Charly's novel is an absolute delight. "In Shadow Spawned" takes the reader into a fantasy realm through the eyes of several different people and groups, all on separate journeys on the outset, but destined to intersect in unexpected ways ...more | |
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Three-and-half-stars. "Two Peas in a Pod" was great in its handling of police procedure and its familiarity with Houston geography but needed help in most other areas. The dialog was often stiff and forced to the point of pulling me out of the narrativ ...more |
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| Based on a 2009 British television show which only lasted one season, author A.S. Charly takes the core concept of the program and with material from the unaired second season, creates a short novel that turns the adventures of the crew of the Nemesi ...more | |
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The "up" side is the opening novel to the "Saint Tommy NYPD" series is action packed, has a unique theme and hero, cuts no corners on the demonic violence and horror, and has a generally likeable protagonist. The "down" side is that it tends to descen ...more |
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| A.M. Leishman's novel was hard for me to get into at first. I felt like I was walking into the second reel of a movie. Even progressing forward, I had to pay attention to keep track of all the different players including planets and regions of space. ...more | |
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
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