I was just going to buy this in paperback but then I listened to the sample on the audible website. Less than half a second later, I put the audio version in my cart because it's narrated by Gideon Emery. Proper review later, once I've listened to it. I'm just a bit verklempt at the moment.Review:...
Charles Stross is an author I want to like. I like his blogs, I like his personality and honesty (in so far as one can gauge such things based on the author's writings, interviews and such). The only snag is I am somewhat ambivalent about his fiction. I don't doubt that he is a talented writer of sc...
Jumpin' Jehosophat, did I just have an encounter with Tim Powers and The Anubis Gates? Is The Atrocity Archives not a reincarnation of that 80's70's cult book? But I could just swear that is what I just read on finishing this, Charles Stross's maiden offering in this series. The similarity in styl...
This read is like Starbucks coffee. It's an acquired taste. And guess what? Starbucks and I are not friends. No amount of sugar or creamer could make me swallow this bland mix. Not for me~
I really did not enjoy this book and only slogged thru it just to finish. The characters where two dimensional cliches of any other sci-fi book and movie. The author was constantly naming all the physics, historical and science fiction knowledge that he could find which was really tiresome. I am bei...
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