Category: Fiction
Briarpatch — Ross Thomas
I got this book because i totally loved the TV show. I don’t normally watch TV shows before i read the book but i got totally hooked on it because it was just so frigging awesome:
But having had a brief start at reading this book, it just isn’t as good as the TV show. Pick is a guy in the book whereas in the TV show it’s Rosario Dawson and i just can’t get my head around Pick being a man.
So i’ve decided to put this away for quite a few years when i hopefully may have forgotten all about the TV show and then i’ll come back and give it a read. Probably not though. Me thinks it’s just one of those books that will get relegated to “The Boneyard” forever.
Ross’ Page
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The Things My Mother Left Me — P. Djèlí Clark
More great fantasy story telling from Djèlí. And i’m definitely looking to return to this issue of Fantasy magazine once i’ve got done reading the rest of Djèlí’s books.
This is available in the periodical, Fantasy Magazine — Issue 60.
Next up in my P. Djèlí Clark reading festival will be The Angel of Khan el-Khalili, which i seem to remember reading is just an excerpt from A Dead Djinn in Cairo. Which i’ll be perfectly happy reading again anyway, so who cares anyway?
P. Djèlí Clark’s Page
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Merlin’s Gun — Alastair Reynolds
The fourth book in Alastair’s Merlin Series, and should be read immediately after The Iron Tactician.
Leaving his previous hitch-hiker behind, Merlin then finds another to join him on his quest to find the ultimate weapon against the Huskers. Will they find it? Will Merlin finally get to use it? Will there be some ultimate act of betrayal?
You’ll have to read it yourself to find out.
Great ending though.
Sadly, for now at least, this is the fourth and final book in this short but very enjoyable tetralogy.
You’ll find this in the collection, Zima Blue and Other Stories.
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