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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 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 The Skinner (Spatterjay, #1): 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The King's Name (Tir Tanagiri, #2): 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated A suitable boy: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The English Patient: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Woken furies: 4 stars
Woken furies by Richard K. Morgan
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing …
David Scrimshaw rated Good Omens: 5 stars
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According …
David Scrimshaw rated House of Suns: 5 stars
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 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 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 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 …