This was the weirdest fucking book. I… kind of liked it? I was originally drawn to it because it takes place in Arco, Idaho and I have family who live there, so I thought it’d be interesting to read a story set in their little town of 910 people. Except The Girl Who Slept With God takes place in some alternate universe Arco where there are enough people to have two high schools and a University. I don’t even know. I realize this is not […]
And the story picks up 300 years later . . .
If I hadn’t already read (and been blown away by) the first two books in this series earlier this year, I would have been very impressed with this book. But as it is, even though it is very good and exciting and has great characters and poignant themes and hints at even more to come, it pales when compared to the complexity and madcap storytelling of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. Those two books were chock full of stories and characters and layers of […]
Religion makes some people kinda cray cray.
I had wanted to read Under the Banner of Heaven for quite a long time, and finally found a copy at my local used book store this year. I started and stopped reading several times, to pick up lighter, less gruesome novels, but I kept coming back to read this intense, true-crime novel, that is less about the horrible murder of a 24 year old mother and her 15 month old daughter (and it was violently and insanely horrible), as it is about a fundamentalist […]
An Ape, a Griffin, and a Snake Walk into a Monastery
Sin of Origin (Isaac Asimov Presents) by John Barnes (1989) – Okay, I got this book in a box of used science fiction books, and I didn’t have high hopes in spite of the “Isaac Asimov Presents” banner or the six-armed ape riding a flying dinosaur on the cover. I think it’s an interesting concept, but the delivery is a little wonky. Basically, it’s a great novella, a related short story, and a barely related short, short story. The novella is about a monk on […]