by Jonathan Barnes
Grade: Unfinished
Read: To page 113, plus a bit more throughout the book.
Some really creepy bits. The description of Mrs. Puggsley's place was rather disgusting. I read the end, and didn't get it at all. Is that dream thing supposed to mean something about the Somnambulist? Now of course, I didn't read half the book, so it's understandable. Then there was Barabbas. Yuck, yuck. I felt really depressed after this book, because I'd been reading a lot of books with stuff like that in it lately. I'm determined not to again for a long time.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Pagan's Scribe
by Catherine Jinks
Grade: Unfinished
Read: Skimmed all the way through it.
Bad parts: Lord Jordan's back. Isidore is not as interesting as Pagan. Some theology might be iffy. (I'm not really sure about that part, though.)
Good parts: You see Pagan from someone else's point of view. Lord Roland dies and Pagan is very sad and it's all very sweet. Catherine Jinks's style is still very much present.
Grade: Unfinished
Read: Skimmed all the way through it.
Bad parts: Lord Jordan's back. Isidore is not as interesting as Pagan. Some theology might be iffy. (I'm not really sure about that part, though.)
Good parts: You see Pagan from someone else's point of view. Lord Roland dies and Pagan is very sad and it's all very sweet. Catherine Jinks's style is still very much present.
Pagan in Exile
by Catherine Jinks
Grade: Unfinished
Read to: Page 208
I thought it was good, till Esclaramonde came in. I didn't like her. And then there's Lord Jordan... Actually, there's a good point about his presence. It proves that Roland and Pagan's relationship isn't like that, by the contrast to Pagan's reaction to his discovery about Lord Jordan. Otherwise a good book--I love Pagan and Roland's relationship, very sweet, and the writing style is still really cool.
Grade: Unfinished
Read to: Page 208
I thought it was good, till Esclaramonde came in. I didn't like her. And then there's Lord Jordan... Actually, there's a good point about his presence. It proves that Roland and Pagan's relationship isn't like that, by the contrast to Pagan's reaction to his discovery about Lord Jordan. Otherwise a good book--I love Pagan and Roland's relationship, very sweet, and the writing style is still really cool.
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Thief
by Megan Whalen Turner
Grade: Good
I enjoyed the characters--I grew to like the magus especially, I think. The gods were not as cool as in The Lightning Thief--too...pagan, I guess, as opposed to just powerful people. The twist at the end was interesting. I guessed one twist, not the other. I didn't quite get the very last bit in italics.
Grade: Good
I enjoyed the characters--I grew to like the magus especially, I think. The gods were not as cool as in The Lightning Thief--too...pagan, I guess, as opposed to just powerful people. The twist at the end was interesting. I guessed one twist, not the other. I didn't quite get the very last bit in italics.
Jimmy Coates: Killer
by Joe Craig
Grade: All right
I had much too high expectations for this one. I expected it to be as fabulous as The Lightning Thief. It wasn't. The writing style was more amateur, I think. The character might have been interesting with a different writer, but as it is, I liked none of them. Although I may have liked Mitchell if he was in it at all. I'm undecided about whether I want to order the sequal.
Grade: All right
I had much too high expectations for this one. I expected it to be as fabulous as The Lightning Thief. It wasn't. The writing style was more amateur, I think. The character might have been interesting with a different writer, but as it is, I liked none of them. Although I may have liked Mitchell if he was in it at all. I'm undecided about whether I want to order the sequal.
Year of the Griffin
by Diana Wynne Jones
Grade: Good
Boy, a lot of people got married in this one. Diana Wynne Jones, in that aspect, manages to be almost perfect--but not quite. All the romances were right, but none were quite satisfying. The only one I really liked was Callette's.
Otherwise, the group of students was lots of fun--not quite enough time spent on Felim (if that's his name). Generally satifying.
Grade: Good
Boy, a lot of people got married in this one. Diana Wynne Jones, in that aspect, manages to be almost perfect--but not quite. All the romances were right, but none were quite satisfying. The only one I really liked was Callette's.
Otherwise, the group of students was lots of fun--not quite enough time spent on Felim (if that's his name). Generally satifying.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
by Neil Gaiman
Grade: Unfinished
Read to: Page 82
It just got a bit boring. And there wasn't enough about the characters and such. I suppose because there isn't all that much to the characters. Hitchhiker's isn't exactly a deep book, is it?
Grade: Unfinished
Read to: Page 82
It just got a bit boring. And there wasn't enough about the characters and such. I suppose because there isn't all that much to the characters. Hitchhiker's isn't exactly a deep book, is it?
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