Jim rated The Player of Games: 4 stars
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #2)
The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988. It …
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Jim rated Consider Phlebas: 4 stars
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced …
Jim rated Just My Type: 3 stars
Just My Type by Simon Garfield
What’s your type? Suddenly everyone’s obsessed with fonts. Whether you’re enraged by Ikea’s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach …
Jim rated The English Patient: 5 stars
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an …
Jim rated A World Without Time: 3 stars
Palle Yourgrau: A World Without Time (2006, Perseus Books Group)
A World Without Time by Palle Yourgrau
It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the …
Jim rated Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead: 4 stars
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard (An Evergreen original -- E455)
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told …
Jim rated Out of Africa: 4 stars
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events …
Jim rated Snow Falling on Cedars: 4 stars
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford …
Jim rated Synergetics 2: 3 stars
Jim rated Silent spring: 3 stars
Silent spring by Rachel Carson
This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America.
Jim rated Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 3 stars
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #4)
When the Quidditch World Cup is disrupted by Voldemort's rampaging supporters alongside the resurrection of the terrifying Dark Mark, it …
Jim rated The book of the SubGenius: 4 stars
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
A fable for adults on the subject of destiny and free will by a writer of children's books. It tells …