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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 Enchanters' End Game (The Belgariad, #5): 4 stars
Enchanters' End Game (The Belgariad, #5) by David Eddings (Belgariad -- bk. 5)
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 Robinson Crusoe: 4 stars
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone …
David Scrimshaw rated Snow Queen: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and me: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Iron sunrise: 5 stars
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 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 Lifelode: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Jem: 4 stars
Jem by Frederik Pohl, Pohl
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three (Food Bloc, Fuel Bloc & People Bloc) bitterly …
David Scrimshaw rated The Praxis: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated A Fine Balance: 5 stars
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Oprah's Book Club, #44)
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the …
David Scrimshaw rated Anansi Boys: 4 stars
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat …
