François finished reading The Bodysnatchers by Mark Morris
It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being …
Not bad, but not as good as the previous ones...
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François started reading The Bodysnatchers by Mark Morris
The Bodysnatchers by Mark Morris
It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the …
François finished reading Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum
In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost …
Very good. Picks up nicely from the previous and convincing. :-)
François started reading Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum
Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum, Kate Orman
In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless …
François finished reading Eight Doctors (Dr. Who Series) by Terrance Dicks
Immediately after the events of the TV film, the Eighth Doctor finishes reading The Time …
Much better than expected. As a fan of the TV series I was kindof wondering if the printed version would live up to the expectation, but it does amazingly well. Nice little read
François finished reading The dead astronaut by JG Ballard
This story was first published in May 1968 in Playboy. It is about a husband …
Very short story - another world slowly dying, even if that is not the subject - that's the suggested background. Strange story, with a twist...
François finished reading La Maison Russie by John le Carré
Roman d'espionnage. À Moscou, pendant la perestroïka, Niki Landau se voit confier par une superbe …
Assez déçu par ce livre. Je ne connaissais pas vraiment Le Carré, autrement que de réputation, et pour moi elle est surfaite. C'était peut-être un beau film, mais comme bouquin, pour moi c'est pas terrible.
François started reading La Maison Russie by John le Carré
La Maison Russie by John le Carré
Roman d'espionnage. À Moscou, pendant la perestroïka, Niki Landau se voit confier par une superbe Russe un manuscrit à remettre …
François finished reading The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into …
Last in the series after the downed world and the burned world, the crystal world gives us another go at an apocalypse drawing nearer when we followed some personnage tortured by their past. Again quite a good book, but to me the best of the three remains the drowned world (but I admit it's totally subjective).
Approaching zero: the extraordinary underworld of hackers, phreakers, virus writers, and keyboard criminals by Paul Mungo
Entertaining but hardly comprehensive, this study offers a somewhat European angle on the "technological counterculture." The authors draw on interviews …
François started reading The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded …
François finished reading The Burning world by J. G. Ballard
In contrast to Ballard's earlier novel The Drowned World, The Burning World describes a world …
"The drowned world" is a book I have read several times, in several languages. Just like "The Martian chronicles", it symbolizes for me the "fin de siècle", end of an era, feeling that, being old, I can't help feeling sometimes. So when I discovered that Ballard had written a trilogy of "world", I had to read the others. "The Burning world", as far as I am concerned, is a variation on a theme. Much of the mood is very similar to the drowned world; it almost seems like an episode in a series. Not bad at all, but afaic, it doesn't rise to "The Drowned world".
François started reading The Burning world by J. G. Ballard
The Burning world by J. G. Ballard
In contrast to Ballard's earlier novel The Drowned World, The Burning World describes a world in which water is scarce. …
François finished reading Angel of Vengeance by Lincoln Child
Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life …
Well, that's a chapter closed. Not too sure about this one - it does wrap up, but not entirely satisfied for some reason. Feels a bit like cheap trick. Maybe I just read too many of those in too short a time and they become kind of predictable. Makes for an entertain reading all the same.
François started reading Angel of Vengeance by Lincoln Child
Angel of Vengeance by Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston
Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life – but she is betrayed …