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Leviathan Wakes: Expanse 1
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James S A Corey
Egg_salad
, January 02, 2013
Good hard scifi / horror story. I generally enjoy stories that explain what happens with new scientific discoveries, and this book / the series promises to focus on these story elements. Characters were well drawn as well. It was interesting to have what seemed like a 40s noir like character in a hard sci fi book.
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Ship Breaker 01
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Paolo Bacigalupi
Egg_salad
, August 04, 2012
I was recommended this book at a store as an easy summer read, as opposed to Bacigalupi's more dense "The Windup Girl." It definitely was a fast paced, easy summer read, and I enjoyed it. Maybe as a result of this, I did feel the characters were a little one dimensional, and the plot, especially near the end, was a bit contrived. Still, it was as advertised, and I can't really ding the book too hard for being a bit on the light side when that's I asked for.
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Ready Player One
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Cline, Ernest
Egg_salad
, January 01, 2012
Not deep, but great fun!
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Ready Player One
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Cline, Ernest
Egg_salad
, September 11, 2011
I picked up this book on Saturday and finished reading by Sunday afternoon. A thoroughly enjoyable, immersive book. The concept is a truly original way to incorporate all sorts of 80s geekdom into a book and make it relevant. If you are at all a fan of the geek pantheon from the 1980's should read this book now.
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Surface Detail UK
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Iain M Banks, Iain Banks
Egg_salad
, June 15, 2011
Action packed and riveting, a great space opera novel from Banks's Culture series. Most of the Culture novels are pretty good as stand alone reads, and this one is no exception. The downside of them being standalone reads is you don't get the character continuity you would get in a traditional series, but the Culture (the galaxy spanning pan human protagonist for most of these books) is almost like an independent character in itself. If you haven't read a Culture novel before, this is as good as any of them to give it a try.
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Kapitoil
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Wayne, Teddy
Egg_salad
, June 11, 2011
Kapitoil was a quick and easy read about a very rational finance quant from the Middle East who comes to New York to work at a brokerage on the Y2K bug in 1999. He happens upon a novel idea to predict oil futures and all of a sudden he is succeeding in business without really trying. It's a first person narrative, and I could see how some could be turned off by the extremely logical thought process of the protagonist, but I found it engaging. For me, it was difficult to put down for the day or two it took to finish.
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Fall of Giants Century Trilogy 01
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Ken Follett
Egg_salad
, April 02, 2011
I truly enjoyed reading this book, even though it is almost a thousand pages long, and is about of period of history (early 20th century) that I was previously not interested in. Ken Follet's historical details and simple prose helped to make it an enjoyable read. Some of the characters are a little like cardboard cut outs of real people, but there are others that seem to have a bit more depth. I am definitely looking forward to the next book in the series.
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