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I've been catching up on some cyberpunk classics this fall, but I also finally got my hands on Joe Haldeman's Forever War . The For...

Yes, the George R.R. Martin epic. I was ill in January and read it. I'm trying to not include any real spoilers. Verdict: undecided but ...

Or, next up on my fantasy book review-o-rama, at least the first two books of it. Verdict: Don't bother. The first book of Trudi Canavan...

I'm currently engaged in a large fantasy reading project, and every now and then I'll try to translate it into the odd book review. ...

Or at least the best short fiction I've ever read: The book in question is a collection of short stories, all based on this Dinosaur Co...

I'm currently reading Mark Mazower's excellent Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe. I was first introduced to Mazower ...

Here's another bildungsroman . Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father This one deals with a darker subject matte...

Last Wednesday I lost yet another piece of my childhood. Peter O'Donnell passed away aged 80. I can't do justice to him right now. I...

For reasons known to at least some of my readers, I've been busy with bildungsromaner lately. It occurs to me I should probably write u...

Right. Time to get this blag back on track. I'll try to finally get a couple of 2009 recap posts done next week. In the meanwhile, it is...

This time, a book recommendation! Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes , the 2007 National Book Award winner for non-fiction. The book is exact...

Here's another review of a disappointing popular history book, this time by the Viscount Norwich! I mean, of course, John Julius Norwich...

Last weekend, I took it upon myself to read Cormac McCarthy's The Road , winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having read it, ...

Recently, a friend of mine ran across a novel that seemed so hilariously awful he had to share. The book in question was Andy Remic's Wa...

I recently picked up William J. Bernstein 's A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World , and was quite disappointed. According to...

Misha Glenny 's book McMafia has such a hideously stupid cover that it put me off buying it for an entire year despite my great interest...