Chris rated The Dark Is Rising: 4 stars
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the …
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Chris rated A canticle for Leibowitz: 3 stars
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (A Bantam spectra book)
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
Chris rated We Have Always Lived in the Castle: 5 stars
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret
Taking readers deep …
Chris rated Now You See It . . .: 3 stars
Now You See It . . . by Richard Matheson
Summoning his family and associates to his side after a mysterious disease destroys his career as the world's greatest stage …
Chris rated Snow Crash: 3 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …
Chris rated The Loved One: 2 stars
Chris rated Cloud Atlas: 2 stars
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young …
Chris rated Never Let Me Go: 5 stars
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (duplicate)
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. …
Chris rated One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 5 stars
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Chief Bromden, half American-Indian, whom the authorities believe is deaf and dumb, tells the story of a mental institution ruled …
Chris rated Big Sleep, the (Penguin Fiction): 4 stars
Chris rated Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks: 4 stars
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
Jack Parlabane is dead. Or is he? In an unlikely twist of the democratic process, he had been elected Rector …
