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book not-reviews
May. 11th, 2006 09:55 amI wrote reviews of most of the books I've read in the last few months, but have been a miserable failure about posting them. Haven't even posted all of them at Amazon yet. So to start with, some of the books I read in February and March but did not review because I was too jetlagged...
Iain Banks - The Business
One of the allegedly mainstream books. As eclectic as ever, and not representative of his usual style, but then he doesn't really *have* a usual style. That's two copies I've bought to read while travelling now -- my orginal copy was bought in an airport shop just after it was released in 2000, being the only thing in the shop I wanted to read and didn't already have. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but a lot of people won't. I need to re-read it to write a decent review, but this will be no hardship at all.
Reginald Hill - Dialogues of the Dead
Late entry in the Dalziell and Pascoe series. "Police procedural" does not begin to cover it. I first read this last year, and was utterly blown away. Not quite such an impact on re-reading, because you know what's coming, but still a stunning piece of work. Worth reading some of the earlier books first to get acquainted with the characters. Most of Hill's books work as standalones, but Death's Jest Book is a direct sequel and in some ways Part 2, so read this one first.
Charles Stross - Singularity Sky
Modern space opera that will appeal to the romance fans as well. Enormous fun and full of wonderful ideas. Started re-reading it yesterday, and it's still enormous fun even without the novelty factor you get on first reading it.
ETA: Just remembered another one - Georgette Heyer -- Why Shoot a Butler? Fun romance/crime.
Iain Banks - The Business
One of the allegedly mainstream books. As eclectic as ever, and not representative of his usual style, but then he doesn't really *have* a usual style. That's two copies I've bought to read while travelling now -- my orginal copy was bought in an airport shop just after it was released in 2000, being the only thing in the shop I wanted to read and didn't already have. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but a lot of people won't. I need to re-read it to write a decent review, but this will be no hardship at all.
Reginald Hill - Dialogues of the Dead
Late entry in the Dalziell and Pascoe series. "Police procedural" does not begin to cover it. I first read this last year, and was utterly blown away. Not quite such an impact on re-reading, because you know what's coming, but still a stunning piece of work. Worth reading some of the earlier books first to get acquainted with the characters. Most of Hill's books work as standalones, but Death's Jest Book is a direct sequel and in some ways Part 2, so read this one first.
Charles Stross - Singularity Sky
Modern space opera that will appeal to the romance fans as well. Enormous fun and full of wonderful ideas. Started re-reading it yesterday, and it's still enormous fun even without the novelty factor you get on first reading it.
ETA: Just remembered another one - Georgette Heyer -- Why Shoot a Butler? Fun romance/crime.