Posted in book reviews, books on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Jeff Somers, The Electric Church: The Barbie Murders meets Ocean’s Eleven meets The Bronx Warriors. Not sure why Somers didn’t just go straight to the screenplay. The underclass, as envisioned here, is barely more than a bunch of ragged extras with bad teeth; this society would surely not last more than a few months. That [...]
Posted in C18th, book reviews, books, tagged Isobel Grundy, John Banville, Kepler, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently read John Banville’s Kepler. A beautiful novel, densely packed though short. It came out in 1999 and I can’t imagine it was too widely read, despite the laudatory reviews by various heavy hitters, because of its somewhat arcane subject. But passing it up because of a lack of familiarity with or interest in Kepler [...]
Posted in book reviews on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
The Keep by Jennifer Egan. Really well done; a bit of a literary Rubick’s cube, with all that that implies. Recommended. (excerpt)
Guardian by Joe Haldeman. Read it in one sitting in the bath — back problems; don’t ask — and it promptly fell apart. Engaging enough but inbred, in a U.S./SF of-a-certain-generation way, and [...]
Posted in book reviews, tagged Ian Rankin, Lev Raphael on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Just finished two novels, mainly in the bathtub: The Edith Wharton Murders: A Nick Hoffman Mystery by Lev Raphael (Stonewall Inn, 1998), a slight novel most notable for its bitter, somehow bloodless, yet very funny send-up of the dusty grey corners of second-tier academe. Highly therapeutic, especially just now. I mean, things are bad, but [...]
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