» by ChrisM May 31st, 2007 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome Yet another title that describes the book most succinctly, though there is a dog as well. Embarrassing as it may be, I ...more »

» by ChrisM May 31st, 2007 at 12:37 pm » Comments (0)

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway This time Mr Hemingway did manage to capture and hold my imagination and interest. We find ourselves in Cuba, in a small ...more »

» by ChrisM May 31st, 2007 at 12:05 pm » Comments (0)

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway This book is at least semi-auto biographic for Hemingway. He did go and volunteer for service in Italy during WWI, and is assumed to ...more »

» by ChrisM May 27th, 2007 at 9:38 am » Comments (0)

Do Fish Drink Water? - Bill McLain In a very similar vein to the Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? book I reviewed earlier, the main concept is that people have asked ...more »

» by ChrisM May 27th, 2007 at 7:40 am » Comments (0)

Recoil - Andy McNab The 9th in the Nick Stone series, Recoil does feel quite similar to other books in the series, but then again I read these sorts of books ...more »

» by ChrisM May 26th, 2007 at 4:15 am » Comments (0)

Blackout - Chris Ryan I've actually read a number of Chris Ryan's books, but as these reviews are only covering the books I've read since emigrating to Kazakhstan, this is the ...more »

» by ChrisM May 26th, 2007 at 3:55 am » Comments (1)

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? - Various contributors from the New Scientist magazine If you or even a 4 year old (eternal fans of Why.... conversations) has ever posed that question, ...more »

» by ChrisM May 26th, 2007 at 3:13 am » Comments (0)

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein I returned to reading Sci-Fi with this novel, and despite some misgivings with its title, I was pleasantly surprised by the ...more »

» by ChrisM May 26th, 2007 at 12:09 am » Comments (0)

Forrest Gump AND Gump & Co. - Winston Groom I've decided to review both books, as there are obvious comparisons to be made between the books and the film. First off, ...more »

» by ChrisM May 25th, 2007 at 9:35 pm » Comments (0)

The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass This book is set around the time of WWII, well just before and after as well, but the Nazi's rise to power occurs during the ...more »

» by ChrisM May 25th, 2007 at 3:56 am » Comments (0)

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame OK, I'm pretty sure I read this 20 odd years ago, but all I could remember when I thought about it were animations ...more »

» by ChrisM May 25th, 2007 at 3:07 am » Comments (7)

Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, Book 1) - by Terry Goodkind Once more into the Fantasy realm I delved, and this book was certainly more faithful to the genre than ...more »

» by ChrisM May 25th, 2007 at 12:59 am » Comments (2)

Idoru - William Gibson This is a sequel to Virtual Light, which has left me wanting to get a copy of All Tomorrow's Parties to finish the trilogy. One of the main ...more »

» by ChrisM May 25th, 2007 at 12:40 am » Comments (0)

The Difference Engine - William Gibson Instead of the future this time, we have a book set in Victorian times, however Gibson (& co-author Bruce Sterling) has the Victorians achieving a ...more »

» by ChrisM May 25th, 2007 at 12:31 am » Comments (0)

Count Zero - William Gibson Following on from Neuromancer, this book introduces the concept of deities coming into widely held belief systems via the internet/matrix system. This book, much like the ...more »

» by ChrisM May 17th, 2007 at 4:06 am » Comments (0)

Virtual Light - William Gibson Having finished Neuromancer, I was definitely ready for more Gibson. This book is also classed as cyber punk by some, but I found the characters to ...more »

» by ChrisM May 16th, 2007 at 6:28 pm » Comments (0)

Neuromancer - William Gibson If you've not heard of this book before, you WILL have seen films that are influenced by it. You are using the internet, or more specifically ...more »

» by ChrisM May 16th, 2007 at 4:56 am » Comments (0)

Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke No margarine spread is in anyway involved in this. (For any fellow ??????? shoppers out there ;) ) Right, this is the last of the ...more »

» by ChrisM May 16th, 2007 at 1:15 am » Comments (0)

Sunstorm (A Time Odyssey) - Arthur C. Clarke Again also featuring the writing talents of Stephen Baxter, this book carries on with the story from Time's Eye. It is actually quite ...more »

» by ChrisM May 15th, 2007 at 10:11 pm » Comments (0)

Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey) - Arthur C. Clarke Featuring the writing talents of Stephen Baxter. I'm not sure whether this is a true 50/50 partnership, or whether Stephen Baxter does ...more »