Tag: paperback
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Review: The Road (Paperback)
If a book irritates me within the first thirty pages, it’s not a great beginning. However – and this is a theme that recurs when discussing The Road – things don’t seem to progress or evolve; they start off as ‘crappy’ and are content to remain there. “A work of such terrible beauty,” the review…
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Review: Nemesis Games (Paperback)
I’ve been taking my reading seriously lately in an attempt to make good my Goodreads Reading Challenge; after a bit of a break, I’ve returned to the Expanse series which I have been enjoying all year with the fifth instalment, Nemesis Games. I’d previously found the fourth book, Cibola Burn somewhat underwhelming. A bit too…
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Review: Christine (Paperback)
It’s pretty impossible to have not heard of Stephen King but alas, so far his work had not quite touched my shores until a generous work colleague lent me Christine and I took the plunge. I’d seen the 1983 movie adaptation a while back as a teenager and enjoyed it at the time, and considering…