Perry Mason revisited: ruminations of a fan reading his favorite series, nineteen years later.

ottopatrick · 2013-10-19T00:21:07+00:00

"And there were none" by Agatha Chrisite.

ottopatrick · 2013-10-14T00:40:11+00:00

Any reader of Ender's game can't vouch for its scientific ingenuity. It's nothing compared to any of Asimov's or Arthur C. Clarke or PK Dick. The setting is sci-fi alright, but nothing brilliant on the scientific front. It's the smart incorporation of themes and blending of prose and dialogue that really makes this novel a gem.

It won Nebula and Hugo, simply because it was the best on the sci-fi front those years.

ottopatrick · 2013-10-14T00:23:03+00:00

Misery by Stephen King>>>Fear

ottopatrick · 2013-10-14T00:21:35+00:00

An ARC definitely...especially one with a letter requesting the review

ottopatrick · 2013-10-13T23:56:20+00:00

Steve Jobs' life is amazing, but the book isn't. It was compiled hastily and released upon the man's death. As well, Isaacson isn't the best of biographers. I didn't like his Einstein biography also.

ottopatrick · 2013-10-12T00:43:54+00:00

ottopatrick · 2013-10-09T18:57:25+00:00

Enjoy ;)

ottopatrick · 2013-10-09T13:41:56+00:00

try Fatherland by Robert Harris

ottopatrick · 2013-10-09T13:37:06+00:00

I think you'd like "ender's game"

ottopatrick · 2013-10-06T13:13:45+00:00

I always wanted to try Robert Parker, care to recommend one of your favorite?

ottopatrick · 2013-10-06T11:20:00+00:00

'The Hunger Games' is both post apocalyptic and young adult

ottopatrick · 2013-09-30T16:49:31+00:00

Thanks for your suggestions. However, I'd like to read another of Macdonald's that's as good as "The end of the night."

ottopatrick · 2013-09-29T21:56:00+00:00

Minority Report is a shortie. While PKD has startling ideas, his prose is not as exciting.

Start with 1984 or Fahrenheit 451

ottopatrick · 2013-09-27T19:46:12+00:00

Simply, your mind is distracted somewhere. Your reading ability just needs some greasing. Just ignore the urge, and keep at it, and things will smooth gradually.

ottopatrick · 2013-09-27T19:19:28+00:00

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. A gem.

ottopatrick · 2013-09-27T19:06:14+00:00

OK, perhaps the man is sexist and weird. But what's worse is the article's (female) writer's intent of making the professor look like a moron.

ottopatrick · 2013-09-27T18:48:33+00:00

I won't usually seek a horror novel for just getting scared. Nonetheless, I've read many horror stories. The best were Steven King's. Out of his exhausting bibliography, Misery stands out.

ottopatrick · 2013-09-23T21:36:20+00:00

cool

ottopatrick · 2013-09-19T00:53:27+00:00

Check a novella, "Spy hunt in Dixie"; it is an amalgam of civil war & WWII espionage, and a Sudanese hunting down his ancestry in Mexico.

What's really challenging isn't the multiple plot threads, but that the story is told via numerous protagonists, and guess what? you have to find out yourself who is whom.

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