Paraic rated Rendezvous with Rama: 4 stars
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Written in 1973, a massive 50 kilometre long alien cylinder begins to pass through the solar system provoking a hurried …
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Paraic rated A Game of Thrones: 5 stars
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels …
Paraic rated Winter's Tale: 5 stars
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Peter Lake--orphan, thief, mechanic extraordinaire--and Athansor, a flying Brooklyn milkhorse, establish a reign of love and justice in New York …
Paraic rated Ready Player One: 4 stars
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (duplicate) (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, …
Paraic rated A Darkness at Sethanon: 3 stars
A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist (Riftwar, part 4)
Paraic rated The Prince of Tides: 5 stars
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty …
Paraic rated Ilario: The Lion's Eye (Gollancz S.F.): 5 stars
Paraic rated The Crow Road: 5 stars
The Crow Road by Iain M. Banks
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day …
Paraic rated Surface Detail: 5 stars
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And …
Paraic rated Swords and deviltry: 5 stars
Swords and deviltry by Fritz Leiber (Lankhmar -- bk. 1)
The first of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series. A collection of short stories.
For the first time-the …
Paraic rated In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead: 5 stars
Paraic rated Life, the universe, and everything: 5 stars
Life, the universe, and everything by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction "trilogy" …
Paraic rated What the Dog Saw: 5 stars
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of …
Paraic rated The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: 5 stars
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to …
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and …