These are the books I’ve read. Simply by clicking on them, you will learn what I thought about them:
Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Man loses job, family ostracise him; also, he is a 6-foot cockroach
The Fall Of Hyperion – Dan Simmons
Epic space opera with the ultimate in literal deus ex machina
Kraken – China Miéville
Barmy comic horror about the theft of a giant squid corpse and the ensuing end of the world
The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Challenger ejaculates over a number of dinosaurs
Perdido Street Station – China Miéville
A filthier city than Ankh-Morpork faces a terrifying scourge
Harvest – Jim Crace
A small farming community’s way of life is threatened by the arrival of outsiders
Rogue Forces – Dale Brown
Utterly meaningless gung-ho military drivel
A Suitable Vengeance – Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley introduces his betrothed to his mother, while solving a frightful murder in his home town
The Hook – Donald E Westlake
Writer writes about a writer who employs another writer to kill his wife
In The Midst Of Death – Lawrence Block
Ex-cop Matt Scudder tries to get a corrupt cop off a dubious murder charge
Skeleton Crew – Stephen King
Short story collection in which people get mulched
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Middle-aged man is rubbish at having an affair
The Last Family in England – Matt Haig
Emotional family drama, through the eyes of the dog
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Dystopian future in which everyone is happy, care-free and sexually satisfied. Also, mad
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
Exciting extraterrestrial invasion hopelessly mired by exhaustive scientific explanations
The Martian – Andy Weir
Exciting scientific explanations mired by hopelessly juvenile narrative
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
Time-hopping character drama with vacuous fantasy plot stapling it together
Wool – Hugh Howey
Denizens of a subterranean society seek to step out for a breath of death air
Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
Subtle yet sweeping treatise of a cataclysmic global plague
The Stone Man – Luke Smitherd
Hopelessly flawed alien hunter/gatherer hunts humans & gathers poor grammar and typos
Dying For A Living – Kory M Shrum
Hunted by the Church & pestered by angels, sassy zombie Jesse almost loses her head
A Game Of Thrones – George RR Martin
Epic and gritty fantasy descriptions of clothing and shiny hair
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