Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too. Only posting books I've read/reading since joining in 2023 (maybe one day I'll go through my bookshelf and change this).
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When a savage creature, known only as the Adversary, conquered the fabled lands of legends …
I got the deluxe box set of all four compendiums a while ago, so it's about time I finally got around to reading them.
I'm pretty sure I've actually already read all the content on this first compendium, but I'll appreciate the refresher!
Beatty and Dixon have written a few of these, inspired by and in homage of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One. Barbara Gordon is such a great character, and this story gives her a great starting point. One that's independent of any future reboot of change of canon. She's fierce, independent, and generally just kick-ass!
Yep, I'll be buying this.
Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The …
I'll be honest, I was enjoying the first two Poirot novels, but the third book of shorts was less engaging for me, and I considered reading something else instead of this, but boy am I glad I didn't!
In 2013 this book was voted as the best crime novel ever, and I can understand why.
Admittedly, I don't have an abundance of mystery genre experience, but I thought that even though this book is so old, it still felt fresh once I finished it. Definitely would recommend!
Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The …
THAT WAS GOOOOOD!
Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The …
Sheppard is a far more sarcastic narrator than Hastings; I am enjoying him far more.
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a …
Why is everyone referred to as "M. [Someone]" in this book? I don't know what this... salutation?.. means.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It …
This was my first Agatha Christie ever, and the only comparison I have to make is to the Sherlock Holmes stories. I enjoyed it. I think I was getting used to Doyle's writing by the end of the Holmes stories, because I could pick up on a lot of the clues by then, but with this I didn't clue on to much at all. I wonder if that will change as I read more of Christie's work? What I will say, though, is that Hastings is a bit whiny and petulant compared to Watson...
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲos ðe …
This is, without exception, the single worst book I've ever read in my entire life. And now that I've seen there's a movie adaptation coming I feel like I need to scream my thoughts into the digital void.
This book gets hailed as one of the masterpieces; one of the greatest novels ever, but in actuality it's terrible, and it's terrible from the start. I stuck with this awful story right through to the end, because I thought, "If SO MANY people rave about this book, there must be a reason, right?" Wrong. And I felt ripped off that I DID commit to it's ending, when the ending is really only the ultimate climax of its awfulness and depravity. The best I can imagine as to why people like it is that perhaps this might be a lot of people's first experience at magic realism, and maybe THAT'S why they …
This is, without exception, the single worst book I've ever read in my entire life. And now that I've seen there's a movie adaptation coming I feel like I need to scream my thoughts into the digital void.
This book gets hailed as one of the masterpieces; one of the greatest novels ever, but in actuality it's terrible, and it's terrible from the start. I stuck with this awful story right through to the end, because I thought, "If SO MANY people rave about this book, there must be a reason, right?" Wrong. And I felt ripped off that I DID commit to it's ending, when the ending is really only the ultimate climax of its awfulness and depravity. The best I can imagine as to why people like it is that perhaps this might be a lot of people's first experience at magic realism, and maybe THAT'S why they like it? But it's not even good magic realism. The entire story is depressing with zero redemption; it's full of death, rape, incest, suicide, and infanticide (which is particularly awful). It is also bleedingly obvious that it was written by a man, as evidenced by all these macho men borderline ****ing their way through the story (and not always consensually) and all the women fawning over any of the aforementioned men whenever they're near them.
This book, as I've said, has zero redemptive features. At all. Let me be clear, it's not that this book didn't live up to the hype I had built up for it; it didn't live up to any measure of "good". It smashed through the floor of my lowest respect, and then kept plummeting right up until the last page. I hated this book so much and thought that it was so bad that once I finished it I didn't donate it or pass it on; I threw it in the bin.
This book is truly awful, and I fail to see how anyone can LIKE it, let alone love it enough to recommend.
This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact …
I've wanted this book for so long. It's utterly fascinating to see what other shots came before and after some of the most iconic and famous photographs of the last eighty years, and to hear some of the backstories that go along with them.
It's silly, funny, and engaging.
Some of the best writers and artists in comics team up to present stories of giant bats, demon children, jetpacks, …
Some of the best writers and artists in comics team up to present stories of …
Mmmm... good. A huge number of short stories, ranging from the serious to the silly, and just as big a range of artists as well. Worth it!
Some of the best writers and artists in comics team up to present stories of …
I purchased a huge (digital) collection of Hellboy from Humble Bundle a while back. While there's a fair chunk I already owned in print, this is one of the collections I am yet to buy a physical copy of.
I don't have enough experience of spy novels to know if this is, in fact, "one of the greatest spy novels of all time". It's good, and an enjoyable read. Full of plots and counter-plots.
The good thing about these novels is that they're not especially long. This one clocks in at around 240 pages, which makes it easily digestible and nothing drags on. le Carré's writing is good; he seems (to me) to reserve the right amount of space to talk about anything, knowing when to elaborate and build metaphors, and when to throw something else into sudden and sharp focus.
Anyway... Looking Glass War next!