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Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth [Spoilers]
I picked this book up thanks to the recommendation in the Goodreads newsletter and I wasn’t disappointed.
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Fahrenheit 451
This was an excellent book—I especially loved the way Ray Bradbury ended it with the Afterward and Coda.
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The Religion of Science Fiction
Good science fiction authors are at the same time remarkably prophetic in their thinking and humorously influenced by their own time. I remember laughing aloud when one of the characters in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land began darning a sock. To me, it was hilarious that in a futuristic world with space travel, characters would…
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Fire Study by Maria V. Synder
This is a decent conclusion to an enjoyable series.
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Brisingr
I really wish that Paolini would do the world a favor and just stop writing.
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Inheritance Book 2: The Plagiarism Continues
Once again, Paolini rips off the work of other talented storytellers while adding nothing new. The result is a predictable, flat story that, like its predecessor, reads like Tolkien fan fiction.
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Eragon
The concept of dragon riders seems like it would be cool, but I think it’s poorly executed.
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Reading List Inoculation
A few minutes ago I finished reading Flowers for Algernon, one of those extremely well-known titles that I wasn’t entirely sure if I had read before or not. It was an excellent book that I would highly recommend reading if you weren’t already required to at some point. One of the benefits of being largely…
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.