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Conrad’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Conrad’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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| It's science fiction, but it's 1950s science fiction, so there are space ships but no personal phones, let alone computers. When the main character departs for a posting out in the less civilised regions, he packs a whole bunch of microfiche for read ...more | |
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| For me, it's a good sign when a novel opens with a quotation from Raymond Chandler. But this was a weird ride. I guess Chandler's detective lives in a corrupt post-Christian city in the US; Effinger's lives in a corrupt post-Muslim city in a futurist ...more | |
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| A quick-read graphic novel. I like Ellis's writing of Bond and this was a good one. ...more | |
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| If you're a speed reader you might find this more enjoyable than I did. I wound up losing interest because of the huge info dumps required all at once to fill in for the plot device of huge memory gaps on the part of the characters. With my stop-star ...more | |
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| I think you have to be a lover of the Raymond Chandler-esque gumshoe detective genre to like this. The well-worn ideas of those books/films then provide the sure footing to counterpoint with the bizarre dystopian world in which we're immersed without ...more | |
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Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
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| I was hoping for another book as funny and clever as Forsyth's Elements of Eloquence. This wasn't quite there. But it does contain some amusing accounts of the attempts by relatively famous people to simplify spellings and alter the English language. ...more | |
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| You're going to think this is more Murderbot. It isn't. This is parable / fable. This is Don Quixote mixed with Wizard of Oz with robots and all dripping with the style and feel of Waiting for Godot, and with the heaviness of darkly cynical intention ...more | |
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| DNF — This book was recommended as a *New Scientist* magazine Book Club choice, and I thought I'd love it, because of the intriguing science fiction premise: that the Earth's rotation was speeding up. But the book—at least the first half—featured ver ...more | |
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| Dated much? Yeah, and in some unexpected ways too. Fragmented and disconnected? OK, yes, but that's part of the point, I think. I could have rated this 3 stars, but it's getting 4 out of respect for how and when it first appeared. I first read this m ...more | |
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| —New Scientist bookclub book for July 2025— Much has been made about how this book is a utopia-novel, but warning people that it's a horror-thriller might be more in order. The physics was interesting, but much of the rest, unsatisfying. The shocking ...more | |
