Sourcery by Terry Pratchett My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love Terry Pratchett and his Discworld novels so much that it pains me to not give one of them five stars, or at least four. However, I thought this one was lacking in some ways. It felt forced. The premise is about the story …
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The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick My rating: 3 of 5 stars A decent book, but not a great PKD book. It's about Floyd Jones, a precog who can see exactly one year into the future and as a result has to live events out twice, once in his visions and once in …
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To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 1 of 5 stars On March 7, 2014 I reviewed Robert A. Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" and gave it one star. It was a sex-obsessed orgy with little "science fiction" to offer. Realizing it was published in 1970 during the Sexual Revolution, …
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The Vastalimi Gambit by Steve Perry My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book started out promisingly, but devolved into a muddled mess with a very disappointing ending. I generally like Steve Perry books and I had read the first book in this series, which I thought was okay (just okay), so I thought I …
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Soul Music by Terry Pratchett My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a pretty good book, but I don't think it's Pratchett's best Discworld novel at all. Still, puns abound. In this one, Imp the Bard goes to Ankh-Morpork to see his fortune in music as a harp player. He meets some other musicians, …
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