pa11av's reviews
247 reviews

Making Money by Terry Pratchett

as always, freaking brilliant.

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

5.0

Department Nineteen by Will Hill

1.0

Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

3.0

Well, as a quick read, it's okay-ish. I wish some characters in the book were tied off nicely. Didn't leave me with a very fulfilled feeling.

Critical Space by Greg Rucka

3.0

It started off well but somewhere around 60% it tries to become another book and from there it's a downward spiral. There are flashes of brilliance, some passages but they fail to lift the book up to speed.

Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson

4.0

I liked the frustration of author as he tries to navigate the regions. Some of his descriptions are memorable and brilliant. A fun read, i read a chapter a day and finished this one quite fast.

The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer

4.0

very fast book, Colfer redeems himself from the mess of book 7.

A Wanted Man by Lee Child

4.0

Standard Reacher book. Like an old friend.

The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur

4.0

good book. the humor is good. the jokes are funny and the frustration of the guy is real. somehow, i loved the ending too. it's short, can be read in a day.

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

3.0

This took me an extraordinary long time to read, because the book is complex and written like some kind of verse poetry. The concepts in the book are extremely alien and somehow when I read the last sentence, the last words, it just didn't leave me with a fulfilled feeling. Maybe, most probably not, I'll pick this book down the years and give it a re-read. It's amazingly mindfuck. The world building is some of the most intense I've ever read.

That's pretty much it. I'll go and read something light.