Stardust

by Neil Gaiman

Grade: All right

It was quite different than the movie. I expected, for some reason, that it would be very similar. Sextus wasn't nearly as cool as in the movie. Probably cause of the actor guy. I was hoping the book would explain some things about the climax that I didn't understand. But it didn't.
It had a cool fairy-tale feeling--not modern, except for a bit of some sleeping-together type stuff.
Not my absolute favourite movie, or book either. I'd like to read more Neil Gaiman, though.

Sunset at Blandings

by P. G. Wodehouse

Grade: Unfinished
Read to: Some random pages

The pages at the end made me feel better. This is exactly how I do it:

(Snippets of his work in progress:)
"Try this. Hero is composer or lyrist with a big show coming on on B'way. He asks Ld Ch for consent--refused as income uncertain. ...
V Good XX)"

"3. Mother leaves (..?...) UF meets Lord E
...
This looks nearly right)"

It's mostly all the "Try this"s and comments like "V Good XX".

Full Moon

by P. G. Wodehouse

Grade: Unfinished
Read to: Page 40 or so

There was an amazingly beautiful heroine who was extremely stupid, and she married the man in horn-rimmed glasses. Bill was very virile and handsome.
The glasses guy could have at least been paired with the other girl instead of the stupid one.
Anyway.

Cover Her Face

by P. D. James

Grade: All right

(I've been giving out "Good"s far too often, so I'm cutting down.)

I didn't guess the murderer, and the murderer was a good person to be the murderer. I was satisfied with that.
Buuuut...it got a bit boring, and I didn't like Dalgliesh enough (except for his name), and the romance at the end irritated me a lot, and there was never quite enough of Felix Hearne. You didn't even really find out what happened to him in the end.

The Long Kill

by Reginald Hill

Grade: Unfinished
Read to: Page 60

The end was very sad, but I liked it. Of course, I didn't really have much of a clue about what was happening, since I didn't read most of the rest of the book.
I think I might have liked it if I liked Anya, but she bugged me. Jaysmith was cool. Cool name, cool occupation, and you could sympathize with him.
It probably got better, but I couldn't really bother reading any more.

The Gun Seller

by Hugh Laurie

Grade: Good

A little too much icky stuff. Why do all the girls have to be so attractive? I guess cause it's supposed to be some sort of James Bond spoof. But it was annoying none the less.

But it was hilarious other than that. I liked how it starts.

"Imagine that you have to break someone's arm.
...
Now, my question goes like this: do you break the arm quickly--snap, whoops, sorry, here let me help you with that improvised splint--or do you drag the whole business out for a good eight minutes, every now and then increasing the pressure in the tiniest of increments, until the pain becomes pink and green and hot and cold and altogether howlingly unbearable?"

It gets better than that, but it's too long to type the whole thing.

Back to Society

by Marion Chesney

Grade: Unfinished
Read to: Page 2

I think I read less of this then even the last one. Boy, they went downhill fast.