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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 Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: 4 stars
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (1998, Flamingo)
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (Flamingo modern classics)
A journalist and his lawyer head to las Vegas in the hopes of finding The American Dream. Instead they trip …
David Scrimshaw rated The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress: 5 stars
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
A one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population …
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 Against a Dark Background: 4 stars
Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the …
David Scrimshaw rated Life of Pi: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Master and commander: 5 stars
Master and commander by Patrick O'Brian (Aubrey/Maturin series)
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin form a friendship in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Life aboard a man-of-war …
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 Nightside The Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun): 4 stars
Nightside The Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun) by Gene Wolfe (Litany of the Long Sun (1))
David Scrimshaw rated Stranger in a Strange Land: 3 stars
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the …
David Scrimshaw rated The Last Unicorn: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Magician's Gambit (The Belgariad, #3): 4 stars
Magician's Gambit (The Belgariad, #3) by David Eddings (Belgariad (3))
David Scrimshaw rated Cities in Flight: 5 stars
Cities in Flight by James Blish
Ever wonder what it would be like to live in cities that flew around in space, like small planets? This …
David Scrimshaw rated Zima Blue and Other Stories: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: 5 stars
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Paperback, 2004, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …