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The good Unique, lovely writing style. Interesting characters. Cool concept of a games house where they play not only games like ches...

I’m a bit torn on this book. On the one hand, it feels like the account of that friend you had in college who drank a lot and did drugs and went on crazy adventur...

Not sure why this book is so well known/regarded. It was reasonably well written and the initial “who am I” mystery was interesting, but after that, it seemed to ...

An entertaining second entry in the series. Lots of fun action, technology, AI, and a little bit of humor. Again, the main drawback is that these books are so sho...

A short, fun read on an assassin robot… who is awkward. It’s a funny premise and the story uses it well. There’s action, a bit of humorous dialog, and some intere...

I was a big fan of a couple other books by Cormac McCarthy (The Road and No Country for Old Men), but this one did not work for me, at all. The beginning jumped a...

This book consists of four separate, but interleaved stories set in a dystopian future where humans can get infected with a disease that turns them into zombies. ...

The book has a moderately interesting brain-in-a-jar concept, where each person lives in their own personal simulated video-game-like universe, but it’s so short,...

It’s book #5 in the series, so if you’re still reading by this point, you pretty much know what to expect: more zany outer space adventures; Skippy says all human...

A nice quick read that tries to explain common questions—such as where did humans come from, why we have night or day, what is the sun, what is a rainbow, and wha...