The Kraken Wakes
by:
John Wyndham (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780141920887 (0141920882)
Publish date: August 7th 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 206
Edition language: English
‘I don’t care. I don’t mind working hard when there’s hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me.’ This may come as a spoiler to people but I have to get this off my chest because I absolutely detest books whose title promises something that the book does not deliver: The is no blo...
Every time I review a John Wyndham I can not resist defending him against the “Cosy Catastrophe” label foisted upon him by [a: Brian Aldiss|33297|Brian W. Aldiss|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1333457329p2/33297.jpg]. The allegation is that Wyndham tends to write books where the middle class white ...
These year I am trying to hear some stories to maximize my time. I am not in favour of either ebooks and audiobooks. The first is know to all, the second in my opinion, since I am doing something else at the same time, it usually doesn't capture my attention as a book, so it can be a bit frustating....
3.5
Have you ever read a couple of books by an author that are simply so brilliant that whenever you see a book written by that author you grab it expecting that it will be brilliant as well, and then when you read it it just gets nowhere near your expectations? That happened to me with this book. It is...
12 years ago
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