This is one of my favorite works of historical fiction and has a secure place on my bookshelf. The book seems to be out of print (though I note a Kindle edition is available on Amazon), but the author's son has made it available on the internet for free under a creative commons license, so if you th...
How good was this? So good, that in the midst of reading I went back and lowered the rating of the book I read before because the storytelling in this one was so superior. This is one of those page turners I practically inhaled, one of those books that you're yawning over not because it's boring, bu...
I said a bit condescendingly in my review of the first part of Shike: Time of the Dragons that this wasn't quite a five star book, and I could smile at someone on LibraryThing tagging it as "trashy." So be it. It's true I don't in the end find this as moving as the author's All Things Are Lights, an...
One of my favorite books of all time. I first read this in high school and have re-read it several times. I also recommend it to all of my friends. It is very funny, one of the few books to ever make me laugh out loud. I really enjoyed the way it is written, though I can understand why it is dif...
I can't even remember when I started this book, but I know it was a long while ago. It was not lack of interest that took me so long to read this. I think I have ADD when it comes to reading sometimes.This book is excellent. There is so much to love about this story. It's a love story, but that'...
Amor, aventura, batallas, filosofía zen... este libro tiene un poco (o mucho) de todo. Debo decir que lo he leído prácticamente de un tirón, a pesar de su longitud. Es ameno, con una estructura muy clara; y no contiene pasajes aburridos en los que la cabeza pueda distraerse de la historia. Lo único ...
--The Eye in the Pyramid--The Golden Apple--Leviathan
A fun, trippy trio of conspiracy novels with an extra heaping helping of science fiction and mythology.