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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 Excession (Culture, #5): 5 stars
Excession (Culture, #5) by Iain M. Banks
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun …
David Scrimshaw rated Schismatrix Plus: 5 stars
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 …
David Scrimshaw rated War and Peace Cluster CSU Stanislaus: 5 stars
War and Peace Cluster CSU Stanislaus by Joe Haldeman, Tim O'Brien, Kevin Sites, and 1 other
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 Prize in the Game: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1): 4 stars
Sharpe's Rifles (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #6) by Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe's Adventures (6))
As if being cut off from the army and surrounded by enemy cavalry is not bad enough, this officer who …
David Scrimshaw rated In the garden of Iden: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Emergence: 5 stars
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 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 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 …