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Conrad’s 2025 Year in Books
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| A mostly fun "rag-tag gang of misfits pulls off a huge heist" story. ...more | |
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| I'd read people raving about this sci-fi author but decided to read this shorter Nebular-winning novelette rather than a full novel. It concerned a superhero-like character so I thought it would be for me. It wasn't. ...more | |
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| I'd read people raving about this sci-fi author but decided to read this shorter Nebular-winning novelette rather than a full novel. It concerned a superhero-like character so I thought it would be for me. It wasn't. ...more | |
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| Solid whodunnit with some good characters; the neural-divergent assistant detective device is always fun. The book deals with dark and unpleasant themes though and is more procedural-approaching-horror than a cozy. | |
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| Exceptionally out-there science fiction horror. You're never really sure that you understand what's going on, which is so appropriate for what (I think) was going on. It's not hard-science science-fiction, it's hard-concept science fiction. I can't i ...more | |
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| Slightly wacky characters with some very wacky turns of phrases and events. But not the laugh-fest you might expect from Mortimer. | |
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| More pseudo-Parker. It feels ok, but not with the spectacular writing of the first few books of the series. | |
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| A great book. I'm jealous of his ability to write and to tell a story at such a leisurely pace intertwining it with his own story and somehow hooking in the stories of his readers as well. ...more | |
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| I agree with his conclusions, but many of the detail arguments are pretty weak. For example, he takes the gospel writer's parenthetical comment "This was before John [the Baptist] was put in prison" (Jn 3:24) to show that the writer expected his read ...more | |
