
Another crime-fiction potboiler, which is readable, but not exactly aiming for the stars. I've only read one other book by the author, but the man character banging on about his long-missing wife gets very annoying.
Toby wrote:Snarfyguy wrote:
I enjoyed that. Armstrong is a provocative and interesting thinker.
Darkness_Fish wrote: I picked Soft Machine, on the basis I couldn't be bothered listening to the others.
Samoan wrote:Toby wrote:Snarfyguy wrote:
I enjoyed that. Armstrong is a provocative and interesting thinker.
She was my English Lit teacher in sixth form. She liked all the saucy bits in Chaucer but Tennyson was her passion.
Darkness_Fish wrote:
Another crime-fiction potboiler, which is readable, but not exactly aiming for the stars. I've only read one other book by the author, but the man character banging on about his long-missing wife gets very annoying.
Jimbo wrote:Look, all I know is pretty much what I get from Robert Parry over at Consortium News.
Jimbo wrote:Look, all I know is pretty much what I get from Robert Parry over at Consortium News.
Darkness_Fish wrote:
K wrote:Darkness_Fish wrote:
That's on my list
joels344 wrote:... makes Star Wars look like a children's story.
joels344 wrote:This book reminds me of Roadside Picnic meets Rendezvous with Rama. It's definitely holding my attention thus far and it's a short read which is sometimes nice. Now, let's see if he can hook me for the entire trilogy.
Fonz wrote:joels344 wrote:... makes Star Wars look like a children's story.
No offense, but Star Wars IS a children's story.
Darkness_Fish wrote:joels344 wrote:This book reminds me of Roadside Picnic meets Rendezvous with Rama. It's definitely holding my attention thus far and it's a short read which is sometimes nice. Now, let's see if he can hook me for the entire trilogy.
I recently read his Finch, a kind of sci-fi detective noir, just with more fungal-lifeforms than the average Daschiell Hammett novel. I enjoyed it, even if it took me a while to understand his setting.