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An avid sci-fi and fantasy reader who sometimes does historical fiction or even mainstream.
You might notice that most of my reviews are 5 stars. That's because if I start reading a book that doesn't engage me, I stop reading it. Life is too short. I've realized that it's not fair to review a book I haven't read and nobody really needs to hear why I didn't get into a book especially when they might like it.
My goals with reviews are to be brief and give other potential readers an idea of why they might like the book. I leave it to the marketing people and other reviewers to describe the plots.
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David Scrimshaw rated Breakfast of champions: 4 stars
Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
David Scrimshaw rated Polity Agent: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The Summer Queen: 5 stars
The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge (The Snow Queen Cycle)
From back cover of Warner Books paperback December 1992:
MOON DAWNTREADER is Lady of Tiamat, pledged to forever end …
David Scrimshaw rated Zima Blue and Other Stories: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The Fellowship of the Ring: 4 stars
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien(duplicate)
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings …
David Scrimshaw rated Maximum Bob: 4 stars
Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard
This is a book about a Florida Jurist who has been sentenced to death by a grudge bearing malefactor.
David Scrimshaw rated In the garden of Iden: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The Star Fraction: 4 stars
The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod (Fall Revolution, #1)
Moh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working …
David Scrimshaw rated Hyperion: 3 stars
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those …
David Scrimshaw rated The Golden Age (The Golden Age, Book 1): 5 stars
The Golden Age (The Golden Age, Book 1) by John C. Wright
"The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with …
