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Nick Harkaway: The Gone-Away World (2009, Vintage Contemporaries)
A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an …
Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he’s called in to …
finished reading kallocain during lunch, it has such luscious sentences
it feels like a poem wearing the guise of a novel. the first time i tried to read it, i read like i would any other novel. but for me, it only revealed itself, and was frankly only understandable, when taking the pace down a few notches
i don't know what translation keeps the dreamy poetry of its sentences intact; you could always learn swedish
The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, …
Superb book, absolutely addictive, and wonderfully written. For other readers of a similar specious worry: it does not take place on a spacestation, but very much so on planet Earth.
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of …
started this a while back, bounced hard. saw rave reviews on bookwyrm and went "wait a minute... maybe it's Actually Good?" so i took another go at it. it was indeed actually good!!
"Two decades ago the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far …
Life for Sale (Japanese: 命売ります, Hepburn: Inochi Urimasu) is a 1968 novel by Yukio Mishima. …
read about half and felt "yup! i'm done with this book"
not bad, not great. very much wears its serializiation origins on its cuffs so to speak
BEFORE: In Bristol’s centre lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, …
felt like a re-read of this for some reason :~
absolute banger, hard to believe this was written before the first world war because god dang it describes many facets of modern society exceedingly well
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first …
i thought this would be a potentially dry account of his golden globe race, but it is nothing of the sort.
it's full of warmth. tales from his youth in "indochina", as he calls it, woven seamlessly with descriptions of the warm relationships he forms with the animals he comes across during the voyage. there are fantastic tips scattered among the different chapters, expert advice snuck in between two paragraphs musing about the weather. he often yearns for updates on his friends taking on the same voyage, cursing bbc for not including updates on them during their broadcasts. the book is lovely all around
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and …
digging this a lot. sometimes in a "i don't know what take this is even going for?"-way
often in an "octopods are freaking cool"-way
as sci-fi goes, plenty of interesting perspectives and ideas and parallels getting thrown your way, liking the structure as well
Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves …
looking fwd to this!
Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade …
slowly re-reading a favourite, which feels oddly cosy given the uhhh source material
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel …