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. …
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Chris rated Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell: 4 stars
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
Chris rated Wide Sargasso Sea: 5 stars
Chris rated The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories: 3 stars
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk. Faerie is …
Chris rated The Forever War: 4 stars
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (The Forever War, #1)
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his …
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 …
Chris rated The Red House: 3 stars
Chris rated Station Eleven: 3 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Dans un monde où la civilisation s’est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d’acteurs et de musiciens nomadise …
Chris rated Company of liars: 3 stars
Company of liars by Karen Maitland
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales--an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and …
Chris rated Tao jin sha shou: 4 stars
Chris rated Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited: 4 stars
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, …
