michaelmarshall's Reviews (251)

House of Suns

Alastair Reynolds

5.0

Heilung von innen: Die neue Medizin der Selbstheilungskräfte

Jo Marchant

4.0

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

4.0

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.0

The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

Caleb Scharf

4.0

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

4.0

Hide Me Among the Graves

Tim Powers

DID NOT FINISH

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I gave up on this around page 370 when the characters made a decision so mind-numbingly stupid and careless that I actively wished them dead. The two stars are for the evocative writing and vivid characterisations, but the plot is a disaster of contrivances.

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild

Lucy Jones

4.0

The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis

Lucy Jago

4.0

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4.0