Love Remains by Glen Duncan
Have just finished reading Glan Duncan’s Love Remains. Saw it in my local library and because I loved I, Lucifer so much had to take it out. This is a very...
23 November 2003
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
originally read 18th August 2003ISBN: 0140292942 My reread of East of Eden was down to the fact that my book club selected it to read. It’s been more than ten years...
18 August 2003
War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
ISBN: 1841491896 When I first started this book I have to admit that I wasn’t that caught up in it, but I think that may have been whatever mood I was...
26 July 2003
Weathercock by Glen Duncan
ISBN: 0743220153 I’ll start this review by stating that ever since I read I, Lucifer I have been a fan of Glen Duncan. And this book has not changed my opinion...
20 July 2003
Stoner by John Williams
ISBN: 0099445093 No not a book about drugs but a story about a university life. Not what we might call a successful life, but not a failure either. A suppose it...
8 May 2003
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Think I need a reread, but still fascinating
29 March 2003
Beauty by Sherri S Tepper
Beauty is a retelling of many fairy tales, but with a slight agenda. And no I’m not really talking about a feminist slant here, but about an environmental one. The story...
3 March 2003
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton
Although the title of this review page refers to the entire series I haven’t actually read them all, I have, however, read 5 in the past week. Guess I’ll have to...
26 January 2003
Abarat by Clive Barker
ISBN: 0002259524 Barker has created an interesting world but I found that the whole story was overshadowed by the ending. But that is only because I didn’t realise that it was...
26 January 2003
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
ISBN: 0743220137 Now this is a truly fantastic book. The basic premise is that God offers the Devil one last chance. If Lucifer can live one month without sin then he...
23 January 2003
The Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind
Terry Goodkind
A very wierd book, imo. Almost nothing at all about Richard, instead it is all about his half-sister Jenn.
I have such an ambivalent attitude towards this series. I quite enjoy reading them but the political and philosophical meaning behind the stories is almost the exact opposite of everything I would believe in.
In Wizard’s First Rule for example the basic premise was that people are stupid. That mob rule always wins out, and by being able to manipulate that you can guide people into believing almost anything.
9 January 2003
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