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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 Nine Stories: 5 stars
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
David Scrimshaw rated Still Life with Woodpecker: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Post Office: 5 stars
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice(a Classics Novel by Jane Austen) (2022, Independently Published)
Pride and Prejudice(a Classics Novel by Jane Austen) by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of …
David Scrimshaw rated Air, or, Have not have: 5 stars
Air, or, Have not have by Geoff Ryman
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields …
David Scrimshaw rated Wizard: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Newton's Wake: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Mind Games: 5 stars
Eric Wallace: Mind Games (2000, Hachette)
Mind Games by Eric Wallace (Mister Terrific, Volume 1)
David Scrimshaw rated Coraline: 5 stars
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
…David Scrimshaw rated Halting State (Halting State, #1): 5 stars
Halting State (Halting State, #1) by Charles Stross
In the year 2018, a daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates. The suspects are a band of …
David Scrimshaw rated The three musketeers: 4 stars
The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of …
David Scrimshaw rated The artificial kid: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Old Man's War: 3 stars
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in …
David Scrimshaw rated Belgarath the Sorcerer: 4 stars
Belgarath the Sorcerer by David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (The Belgariad/Malloreon series, prequel 1)
Here is the full epic story of Belgarath, the great sorcerer learned in the Will and the Word on whom …