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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 Ragamuffin: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The color purple: 5 stars
The color purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for …
David Scrimshaw rated Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: 4 stars
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (1998, Vintage Books)
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
A journalist and his lawyer head to las Vegas in the hopes of finding The American Dream. Instead they trip …
David Scrimshaw rated Schismatrix: 5 stars
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
In the far future, in a solar system colonized by a strange aggregation of human cultures, Abelard Lindsay, a rogue …
David Scrimshaw rated Lifelode: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Fall of Moondust: 4 stars
Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
An early Arthur C. Clarke novel that takes place on the Moon. The setting is a future in which the …
David Scrimshaw rated Jem: 4 stars
Frederik Pohl: Jem (Paperback, Spanish language, 2004, Minotauro)
Jem by Frederik Pohl
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three (Food Bloc, Fuel Bloc & People Bloc) bitterly …
David Scrimshaw rated The Ophiuchi Hotline: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated David Copperfield: 5 stars
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Nancy Holder (Penguin classics)
David Scrimshaw rated Life of Pi: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Hardwired: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: 5 stars
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison. Every aspect …
David Scrimshaw rated A Deepness in the Sky: 4 stars
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #2)
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: …
David Scrimshaw rated Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone: 4 stars
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J.K. Rowling
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth …