This was my second attempt to read this book, and I’m glad I gave it another go. I haven’t been let down by Scalzi before, and Lock In was no different. This is a fairly typical Scalzi novel, in that the world is well developed and multi-layered. From what I’ve read of him (Redshirts, the Old Man’s War series, and The Dispatchers), he’s very adept at centering his stories around a big idea, and this is no different. Set in the future, a disease has […]
14 year old me would’ve enjoyed this. Current me? Well….not so much.
Written in 1969, The Andromeda Strain put Michael Crichton on the literary map. Not his first novel, this is his first attempt at trying to incorporate science into the thriller genre, and it received a great deal of acclaim upon publication, and has stood the test of time as one of his better known books. And I found it largely uninteresting and dry. I’m not sure when my tastes changed, but there was a period in middle school when I devoured Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, […]
Don’t mind me, I’ll just sit here and quietly morn the dwindling pile of Rowell books I have left to read.
Set at the dawn of the 21st century, amidst the chaos of Y2K hysteria, Attachments is about a young IT security officer at a newspaper whose job it is to read employee emails that get flagged for personal content. He quickly finds himself drawn to near daily exchanges between two women, and ends up falling for one of them. Torn between his deep interest in a woman he’s never met, and the unethical quandary he’s found himself in, Lincoln has to decide weather to throw […]
An absolutely perfect little book.
I’ve made no secret of my dismissal of the romance genre. It’s not that I don’t enjoy romance, or am indifferent to love, it’s that I’ve found the heaving bosoms and overflowing adoration to be blindly fantastical and willfully dismissive of actual romance. I’ve generally avoided the genre because I’ve never thought of it as even adequately representing real world love. I know that bodice rippers aren’t all the genre has to offer, but I have never encounter romance that spoke to me. Until Rainbow […]