A list of the book reviews I’ve written. If somebody can tell me how to do HTML indents tht don’t get erased by WordPress every goddamn time I edit the page, that’d be great.

A note on scores: I don’t really believe in giving books numrical scores, for reasons that should be self-evident, which is why I don’t do so in the actual reviews. But they can be useful to get a quick impression of what I thought about a book when scanning a list, so I use them on this page and this page only.

FICTION

Adams, Richard
Watership Down – 7/10
Bisson, Terry
Bears Discover Fire – 5/10
Bowles, Paul
The Sheltering Sky – 5/10
Brooks, Max
World War Z – 8/10
Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Game – 7/10
Chabon, Michael
Wonder Boys – 6/10
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – 10/10
Gentlemen of the Road – 8/10
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union – 9/10
Clarke, Arthur C.
2001: A Space Odyssey – 6/10
Clarke, Susanna
Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell – 10/10
Coelho, Paulo
The Alchemist – 5/10
Danielewski, Mark Z.
House of Leaves – 5/10
Dick, Philip K.
The Man In The High Castle – 4/10
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – 6/10
Farmer, Philip Jose
The Fabulous Riverboat – 4/10
The Dark Design – 0/10
The Magic Labyrinth – 0/10
Gaiman, Neil
American Gods – 7/10
Gibson, William
Neuromancer – 10/10
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – 10/10
Hemingway, Ernest
The Torrents of Spring – 6/10
The First 49 Stories – 8/10
The Old Man and the Sea – 6/10
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon – 6/10
Heinlein, Robert
Time Enough For Love – 5/10
Citizen of the Galaxy – 7/10
Homer
The Odyssey – Unable to rate
Hunt, Stephen
The Court of the Air – 3/10
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go – 9/10
Kerouac, Jack
On The Road – 6/10
Kibuishi, Kazu
Flight: Volume I – 7/10
King, Stephen
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger – 7/10
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Left Hand of Darkness – 5/10
The Tombs of Atuan – 6/10
Martel, Yann
Life of Pi – 10/10
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
The General In His Labyrinth – 4/10
McCarthy, Cormac
Blood Meridian – 10/10
The Road – 10/10
Melville, Herman
Typee – 4/10
Moby-Dick – 10/10
Mieville, China
Perdido Street Station – 7/10
Mitchell, David
Ghostwritten – 8/10
Cloud Atlas – 10/10
Black Swan Green – 10/10
Moore, Alan
Watchmen – 10/10
Murakami, Haruki
Kafka On The Shore – 1/10
Novik, Naomi
Temeraire – 1/10
Palahniuk, Chuck
Fight Club – 8/10
Pratchett, Terry
Making Money – 7/10
Nation – 7/10
Priest, Christopher
Inverted World – 9/10
Fugue For A Darkening Island – 5/10
Pullman, Philip
The Ruby in the Smoke – 4/10
Once Upon a Time in the North – 6/10
Robinson, Kim Stanley
The Memory of Whiteness – 5/10
Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye – 6/10
Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones – 4/10
Stephenson, Neal
Snow Crash – 8/10
Strahan, Jonathan
The Starry Rift – 5/10
Thompson, Hunter S.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – 10/10
van Loon, Julienne
Road Story – 5/10
Vandermeer, Jeff
City of Saints and Madmen – 6/10
Varley, John
The Barbie Murders – 7/10
Steel Beach – 8/10
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five – 8/10

NON-FICTION

Bryson, Bill
Down Under – 7/10
Diamond, Jared
Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – 7/10
Read, Paul Piers
Alive – 7/10
Twain, Mark
Following The Equator: Volume I – 7/10
Following The Equator: Volume II – 6/10