anticonnor rated The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition: 4 stars
The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition by Robert W. Chambers
An important early classic of fantasy/sci-fi. [Main story:] The ill effects of a soul-destroying play, to read which brings doom. …
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anticonnor rated Abarat: 2 stars
Abarat by Clive Barker (Abarat -- [bk. 1])
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by …
anticonnor rated The memory of whiteness: 3 stars
The memory of whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
In 3229 A.D., human civilization is scattered among the planets, moons, and asteroids of the solar system. Billions of lives …
anticonnor rated A Song for Arbonne: 3 stars
A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates …
anticonnor rated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: 3 stars
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
Blue/Green Hardcover, pasted illustrations believed to be done by Willy Pogany, no pub. date, Thomas Crowell New York. Cover has …
anticonnor rated Stories of Your Life and Others: 4 stars
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang originally published in …
anticonnor rated Riot Baby: 3 stars
anticonnor rated Inherent vice: 5 stars
Inherent vice by Thomas Pynchon
Doc Sportello is bewildered when an ex-girlfriend returns to recruit him in a plot to kidnap a wealthy construction executive. …
anticonnor rated No Longer Human: 3 stars
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of …
anticonnor rated A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R.": 2 stars
anticonnor rated The madness season: 3 stars
The madness season by C. S. Friedman (DAW book collectors -- no. 829)
For hundreds of years, Earth has suffered under the yoke of alien conquerors: the dreaded Tyr, a reptilian race in …
anticonnor rated Sisters of the Vast Black: 4 stars
anticonnor rated The Long Ships: 5 stars
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England. Acclaimed …
anticonnor rated The Twisted Ones: 5 stars
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a …
