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Chris’s 2024 Year in Books
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Jake placed the blade in its sheath and his head in his hands; his god lay prone and lifeless, bleeding over the world it had created.
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Frank Wasdale: First Mission
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A Quantum Prayer: and other stories
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A Quantum Prayer and other stories
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Review of 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin
I discovered this book through some articles in the BSFA Vector journal. I was surprised that I had never heard of it, because I have read '1984' and 'Brave New World' (both of which were influenced by 'We') and I enjoy a bit of SF dystopia. This was first published in 1924, after the manuscript had been smuggled out of Russia. I found the writing style hard going, with metaphors piled upon metaph
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| Gorse has atmosphere in spades and mixes fantasy and horror effectively. I struggled with the writing style at first, and found myself skimming some of the more lengthy descriptive passages. But this is a decent story and quite original. Nancy is a v ...more | |
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| The world-building here is impressive. The Downs, it has to be said, is not a place you would want to walk into alone at night. But it's fascinating, and nightmarish at times (e.g. the roaming onionheads). So five stars for the setting! The plot, tho ...more | |
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The one that has most stuck in my head over the years is 'The Song of Kali' by Dan Simmons. There is something horribly menacing and dangerous about t
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| Although the tone of this book is very much of an age when boys did science and girls kept the clerical records, it contains so many big ideas and 'proper' science that it must surely be regarded as a classic of the golden age. Deeply philosophical a ...more | |
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| You have to be in a certain mood to read Lovecraft, but when you are in the mood there is no finer horror reading experience. Full of inexplicable things lurking in unfathomable darkness, ancient forbidden tomes and diabolic worship, these tales have ...more | |
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| 'The recollections of an ageing artist in post-war Japan' does not initially sound like a very engaging premise, but the author pulls it off. This is part of the appeal of Ishiguro's work - he sees profound where most would see mundane. He explores h ...more | |
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| A modern ghost story with a classic feel. Susan Hill goes full on M.R.James here, even to the extent of naming a chapter after one of his most well-known stories. And indeed, The Woman in Black begins in a typical Jamesian way, with a polite professi ...more | |
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| 2.5 stars. This is a nice story, but a bit too nice. It reads like a fairy tale with all the Grimm removed. Klune writes well, and the book is genuinely funny in places, but it is SO preachy that it soon becomes tiring. Yes, it is important to be you ...more | |
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| This was interesting. An ambiguous, frustrating, funny and profound work whose true meaning will never be known. In fact, trying to rationalize Kafka's intent is probably fruitless, given that the novel was assembled and edited posthumously from bund ...more | |
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| I have seen a few film/TV adaptations of this story, so it was nice to finally get around to reading the original. As with the adaptations, the deliberate ambiguity of the story acts both in its favor and against it. This will have been discussed at ...more | |
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
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