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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Raymond Chandler

Tags: fiction mystery detective

Description: Chandler's first novel, I found his sleazy Hollywood intimately familiar due to the impactChandler's first novel, I found his sleazy Hollywood intimately familiar due to the impact of his work ever since, I think. What Chandler wrote had the structure of a mystery and the characters of a hardnosed detective story, but it's his way with words that makes it worth reading. You come away feeling like Chandler knows just the right way to describe anything. Yet his wordplay doesn't leave you disengaged but rather aids in immersing you into the world he's creating....

2010-02-02

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Neil Gaiman

Tags: fantasy fiction graphicnovel

Description: A fun story of a young to-be mage, illustrated by four different artists. The story was simple,A fun story of a young to-be mage, illustrated by four different artists. The story was simple, an introduction to magic, but i liked the themes and characters and events that were evoked, hinted at, foreshadowed....

2010-01-26

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Authors: Robert Jordan Brandon Sanderson

Tags: fantasy fiction

Description: Finally the new author takes up the task of finishing this series. Easily the most satisfyingFinally the new author takes up the task of finishing this series. Easily the most satisfying in quite a number of volumes. He matches Jordan's style well, enough so that you're not really aware of him as a new author. However he does a much better job of pressing the plot along, and by the conclusion I felt very satisfied, and enthusiastic about the series for the first time in a long while. He does stumble along the way, and there are times where I felt he was poking along too slowly as Jordan had become wont to do. The conclusion, and the actual growth of characters in a way that made you like them again, was well worth it.<...

2009-12-07

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean

Tags: fantasy fiction ya

Description: A surprisingly excellent officially endorsed sequel to Peter Pan. The author does an amazingA surprisingly excellent officially endorsed sequel to Peter Pan. The author does an amazing job of matching the style and voice of Barrie's original, quite a job considering how distinctly written that one was. This adventure manages to follow the themes of the first book while still exploring new territory. My son and I really enjoyed it....

2009-10-13

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

Description: This second and final book in the series provided a very satisfactory finish. Kay leaves theThis second and final book in the series provided a very satisfactory finish. Kay leaves the world he's developed feeling very alive, dangling tantalizing promises of a future that we won't see but can vividly imagine. He ups the ante here, weaving in more characters into the story that began in book one, but delivers on providing surprising conclusions to the plot threads. The story ended on one limp conclusion, but that is all I can complain about in this volume.uy Gavriel kay has wrought....

2009-09-21

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Lian Hearn

Tags: fantasy fiction

Description: I thought this was a very satisfactory ending to the trilogy. At the ending of book two II thought this was a very satisfactory ending to the trilogy. At the ending of book two I was worried about how much was left to be done and whether it would seem either rushed or all too easy. But Hearn wrapped things up nicely with a mix of triumph and tragedy. What I liked the most was the way she laid groundwork for the future beyond the trilogy without giving the impression she was just setting up sequels. It made the world feel very lived in....

2009-07-23

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Randall Garrett

Tags: fantasy fiction mystery detective alternatehistory

Description: This was an enjoyable read, much of the pleasure being in the peeks and explanations of anThis was an enjoyable read, much of the pleasure being in the peeks and explanations of an alternate world where history has played out differnetly and magic has become the norm. The plot was rather pedestrian detetive fiction to me. If you enjoy the detective fiction genre and a fantasy alternate history appeals to you you'll probably like this quite a bit. I enjoyed it but have nothing special to say about the writing or plot....

2009-06-25

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Description: A story that kept you hanging on, not so much for the plot, but to learn more about the charactersA story that kept you hanging on, not so much for the plot, but to learn more about the characters involved, their history, to delve deeper into their quirks and into the world they live in. Palahniuk's writing style is notoriously idosyncratic and at times but if you can deal with it you're on a quick fast, interesting ride....

2009-06-08

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Authors: Brian K. Vaughan Tony Harris

Tags: fiction comics graphicnovel superheroes

Description: A fun different take on a modern superhero story. Not too weighty though maybe it meant toA fun different take on a modern superhero story. Not too weighty though maybe it meant to be. Very nice art, interesting characters....

2009-06-07

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Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Authors: L. Frank Baum John R. Neill

2009-04-10