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Mar. 11th, 2007
Destination Truck River
Mar. 11th, 2007 10:04 pmRiver of Gods, by Ian McDonald
I'm not sure whether the multiplicity of threads in this book made it slightly weaker than my alltime favorite of his, Evolution's Shore, or if it was that I was too sick to fully appreciate the effect of the multiplicity of threads. I mean, I don't see a better way of doing it. Anyway, it was still very satisfying indeed.
(40/250)
Truck, by John Jerome
I actually picked this up out of curiosity because someone complained in an Amazon review that Truck, by Michael Perry (which I enjoyed), was a blatant rip-off of this book. That reviewer was just being stupid; they are not that much alike. This is one much grittier and more detail oriented, whereas Perry's is much more interested in relationships and the particularities of small town life. This is a hippy book of the back-to-the-land-self-conscious-intellectual genre and I really liked it. No real surprise since Jerome's book Stone Work is one of my perennial loves.
(41/250)
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
I really did not mean to read this whole book today. Maybe just a chapter or two. But it just got better and better and I couldn't put it down. Glorious.
(42/250)
I'm not sure whether the multiplicity of threads in this book made it slightly weaker than my alltime favorite of his, Evolution's Shore, or if it was that I was too sick to fully appreciate the effect of the multiplicity of threads. I mean, I don't see a better way of doing it. Anyway, it was still very satisfying indeed.
(40/250)
Truck, by John Jerome
I actually picked this up out of curiosity because someone complained in an Amazon review that Truck, by Michael Perry (which I enjoyed), was a blatant rip-off of this book. That reviewer was just being stupid; they are not that much alike. This is one much grittier and more detail oriented, whereas Perry's is much more interested in relationships and the particularities of small town life. This is a hippy book of the back-to-the-land-self-conscious-intellectual genre and I really liked it. No real surprise since Jerome's book Stone Work is one of my perennial loves.
(41/250)
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
I really did not mean to read this whole book today. Maybe just a chapter or two. But it just got better and better and I couldn't put it down. Glorious.
(42/250)