fiction
24 Declassified: Chaos Theory
Title: : 24 Declassified: Chaos Theory Author: : John Whitman Mass Market Paperback: : 240 pages Publisher: HarperEntertainment (May 29, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0060842296 SBN-13: 978-0060842291 Read this one in Paris. As usual, it was a quick, fun read. Jack Bauer faces his most unusual foe yet, one that doesn’t follow patterns. The last […]
June 23rd, 2007 by alephnaught
24 Declassified: Vanishing Point (24 Declassified)
Title: 24 Declassified: Vanishing Point (24 Declassified) Author: Marc Cerasini Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: HarperEntertainment; Mti edition (February 27, 2007) ISBN-10: 0060842288 ISBN-13: 978-0060842284 Yes, I also read pulp fiction…. I’ve read a bunch of the ian Fleming James Bond books along with Edgar Rice Borrough’s books. I’m hooked on the “24” television […]
May 22nd, 2007 by alephnaught
American Gods
Title: American Gods Author: Neil Gaiman Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: HarperTorch (April 30, 2002) ISBN-10: 0380789035 ISBN-13: 78-0380789030 I saw a used copy of this in a bookstore just before leaving on vacation and figured I’d give it a try. I loved his Sandman series of graphic novels and hoped that he might […]
March 30th, 2007 by alephnaught
The Song of Hannah : A Novel
Title: The Song of Hannah : A Novel Author: Eva Etzioni-Halevy Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account (August 30, 2005) ISBN-10: 0452286727 ASIN: B000F5FQZO I liked this book. It was well written and the story was gripping. Its loosely based on the story of Hannah and her son, the prophet Samuel. There are some […]
November 14th, 2006 by alephnaught
Sarah: Women of Genesis
Title: Sarah: Women of Genesis Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Forge Books; 1st Forge Ed edition (August 30, 2001) ISBN: 0765341174 I enjoyed this book a lot. Its very much fiction – as Card writes in the end notes, the Torah includes little detail and so any undertaking like this […]
November 4th, 2006 by alephnaught
The Red Tent
Title: The Red Tent Author: Anita Diamant Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Picador; 1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed edition (September 15, 1998) ISBN: 0312195516 This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Its a novel based upon the short section of the Torah describing the life of Dinah, daughter of Leah […]
October 2nd, 2006 by alephnaught
Shadow of the Giant
Title: Shadow of the Giant Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 371 pages Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (February 7, 2005) ISBN: 0812571398 The last book of the Ender series that follows Bean, the child that helped Ender beat the Buggers and then helped Peter unite the world. The book is good exciting fun […]
September 25th, 2006 by alephnaught
Shadow Puppets
Title: Shadow Puppets Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Tor Books (June 3, 2003) ISBN: 0765340054 If you’ve read the two books leading up to this one, Ender’s Shadow (which, if you’ve read this blog you know made me cry) and Shadow of the Hegemon, then you need to read this […]
September 25th, 2006 by alephnaught
Starship Troopers
Title: Starship Troopers Author: Robert A. Heinlein Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Ace (May 15, 1987) ISBN: 0441783589 While telling someone about Ender’s Game, that person mentioned Starship Troopers, which I’d never read before. So, next time in a used bookstore here in Chicago I grabbed a copy. Excellent choice! This book is really fun! Its […]
September 9th, 2006 by alephnaught
Xenocide
Title: Xenocide Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (August 1992) ISBN: 0812509250 This book was interesting but weaker than the rest. The thing that made the other books special, especially from a science fiction perspective, was the lack of explaination of why things worked the way they […]
July 22nd, 2007 by alephnaught