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B

Barker, Clive

Imajica

[star][star]

About 600 pages too long.


Buell, John

Four Days

[star][star][star]

Crime, murder, etc.


Bukowski, Charles

Women

[star][star][star][star]

A good book


Bukowski, Charles

Pulp

[star][star][star][star]

Funny detective story


C

Camus, Albert

Outsider, The

[star][star][star][star]

Murder on the shores of France!


Camus, Albert

Fall, The

[star][star][star]

The discourse of a disallusioned soul!


Cordell, Alexander

Dream and the Destiny, The

[star][star][star][star]

One man's journey across China in Mao Tse-tung's red army.


D

Dan Rhodes

Anthropology and a hundred other stories

[star][star][star]

A good hours reading


De Bono, Edward

Parallel Thinking

[star][star][star]

Gives a good overview of his other books.


Dostoevsky, Fydor

Crime and Punishment

[star][star][star][star]

A heady russian jaunt!


E

Eco, Umberto

Foulcault's Pendulum

[star][star][star][star]

(The rubber plant is free!)


F

Fowler, Christoper

Rune

[star][star]

Ancient runes, blah blah, computer virus, blah blah, world domination.


Fowles, John

Maggot, A

[star][star]

Who is the killer? Who is the mysterious nobleman? Where are my breasts?


G

Gibson, William

Idoru

[star][star][star][star]

Fantastic.


Gibson, William

Difference Engine, The

[star]

A very bad book. Don't read under an circumstances. Written with Bruce Sterling


Gibson, William

All Tomorrows Parties

[star][star][star][star]

Featuring many characters from Idoru


Gibson, William

Neuromancer

[star][star][star][star]

Really good.


Goldsworthy, Peter

Little Deaths

[star][star]

It's like I died and didn't go to heaven....!


H

Herbert, Frank

Eye, The

[star][star]

One good one about Jorj X. McKie, otherwise bland.


Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World

[star][star][star][star]

Biting Social Commentary!


K

Kerouac, Jack

On The Road

[star][star][star]

A bit repetitive


O

O'Neill, John

Prodigal Genius - The Life of Nicola Tesla

[star][star][star]

I loved that pidgeon, I loved her as a man loves a woman.


Orwell, George

Down and Out in Paris and Londen

[star][star][star][star]

George Orwell - the waiter! - the tramp!


R

Robbins, Tom

Still Life with Woodpecker

[star][star][star]

Forbidden Love!


Rushkoff, Douglas

Media Virus - Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture

[star][star][star][star]

The old Eriksonian double disassociation


Rushkoff, Douglas

GenX Reader, The

[star][star]

A collection of articles about generation X compiled by Doug Rushkoff, so-so.


S

Sawyer, Robert J

Flash Forward

[star][star]

The ending sucked, and the rest wasn't all that great either


Self, Will

Sweet Smell of Psychosis, The

[star][star][star]

Not the greatest book he has ever written, but not bad.


Shakespeare, William

Henry V

[star][star][star]

Not as good as the first four!


Simak, Clifford D

All Flesh is Grass

[star][star][star]

Strange alien worlds.


Simak, Clifford D

City

[star][star]

So so sci fi.


Smith, Michael Marshall

Spares

[star][star][star]

Has a well developed main character. Not a very realistic world.


Steinbeck, John

Winter of Our Discontent, The

[star][star][star]

The feel bad book of the year.


Steinbeck, John

Long Valley, The

[star][star][star][star]

Another group of stories centered in Salinas, California


Steinbeck, John

Tortilla Flat

[star][star][star][star]

Humourous stories about the drunk paisano jobless of Monterey.


Steinbeck, John

Grapes of Wrath, The

[star][star][star]

The grapes! The Wrath! The breast feeding!


Steinbeck, John

Moon is Down, The

[star][star][star][star]

The Flies conquer the flypaper!


Steinbeck, John

Cannery Row

[star][star][star][star]

More drinking and good times in Monterey.


Stephenson, Neal

Diamond Age, The

[star][star][star]

Pretty good, but a bit slow paced.


Stephenson, Neal

Snow Crash

[star][star][star][star]

Fast paced cyber uh, something or other.


Sterling, Bruce

Difference Engine, The

[star]

A very bad book. Don't read under an circumstances. Written with William Gibson


V

Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

Mother Night

[star][star][star][star]

Brilliant black comedy


Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

Timequake

[star][star][star][star]

Kurt Vonnegut rules!


Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

Deadeye Dick

[star][star][star]

So so. Not as good as his other books


Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

Breakfast Of Champions

[star][star][star][star]

Etc. and so on.


Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

Bluebeard

[star][star][star]

Grist for the mill


Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

God Bless You Mr Rosewater

[star][star][star][star]

Grab much too much, or you'll get nothing at all


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