For aught I know books should be relaxing and therapeutic in case you are under stress (exclude those of Adolf Hitler and Marquise de Sade). This book was boring. With turtle speed I forced myself to finish it. What can be more boring than talking dolphins? Some of them hate humans. Others love us....
bookshelves: published-1990, sci-fi, environmental-issues, winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, fraudio, epic-proportions, dystopian, desert-regions, lifestyles-deathstyles Read from December 18, 2013 to January 11, 2014 Description: Set in the year 2038, the book is a cautionary tale of the harm h...
*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)Set i...
This is the first book in the The Uplift War series. It took me a while to get into this book. The characters, particularly the protagonist and main point of view character, Jacob Demwa, are likeable. I liked his love interest, Helene De Silva, too. But I can't say Brin's characters strike me as com...
An interesting story with an interesting view of the human race. Humans are rare in the universe because they weren't uplifted by another race. Now that we've made contact other races aren't sure how to take the humans and many human's aren't sure how to take the aliens, down to being downright ...
To be honest I wouldn't have finished this one if it wasn't a bookcrossingIE choice. I'm not sorry I read it but it was a bit too scientific for my real enjoyment and went down some avenues that I wouldn't have gone if I had a choice. In a near future the earth is wracked with ecological damange an...
If you don't like the movie you won't like the book as they are very similar. I liked it. I didn't love it but I liked it. A pretty fast read and somewhat entertaining. I don't see this being a book that I ever revisit again but....
I do not read the way you are probably supposed to. I think this is abundantly clear by now. I sometimes read the back few pages only a short way into a book. I read three books at once.I don't always start at the beginning of a series. Sometimes I do, if I think it's important to do so, but if it d...
Pretty standard yarn as far as speculative science fiction of the post-apocalyptic genre go, but Brin's The Postman counts as the popular predecessor for many, many others and therefore gets a pass on several of its sappier elements. I've always been a sucker for Cold War era science fiction. The sp...
I don't know if I've ever read a book that was both so right, and so very wrong, for cinematic interpretation as Startide Rising.I wrote a full review of the book. I also wrote about Space Dolphins.
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