Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002 Kim Stanley Robinson (my-o-my, did I get that name right? Already dropped the book into our book box at work, can’t check….), “Green Mars”, that’s the sequel to “Red Mars”. The last part of the trilogy, “Blue Mars”, is still to come…. Great read! Now that is an utterly believable scenario how colonization of Mars could take place, great characterizations, believable political plot, very good visualizations – you can see the place in all its splendour – and one of my favourite things about it – each chapter is told by a different character, you get to see everything from a new viewpoint in each of the chapters. Each of the installments has about 700 pages, so it’s not for the faint hearted. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002 Greg Bear, "Moving Mars", another one of the many stories about colonised Mars out there. I generally like Greg Bear very much, he is one of my favourite hard SF authors. But this book left me a bit unsatisfied. It started interestingly enough. But then, for too many pages, past half of the book, the whole story was strangely stagnant, with little development in any direction. I stuck with it, because I was interested to see how the story would finally turn out. Eventually the story picked up speed again – a lot of speed and activity. And the turn of events in the end was pretty good, but all in all the story did not really get me all that involved. The spark was missing. By the way, the my bookclub is up and running again... Wednesday, Feb. 06, 2002 Philip Shelby, “Last Rights”, I whizzed through that one in 3 days, it was a really good thriller! It’s one of those political conspiracies stories. Or is that a tautology, are conspiracies always political? Anyway….. Anyway, bad guys gets shot and the last words escaping his dying lips set our heroine on a quest of revenge, involving blown up buildings, bombs, plenty of murders and so on…. Well written, lots of tension, very good characterizations, could hardly put it down! Sunday, Feb. 03, 2002 Bill Bryson, “In a Sunburned Country” – like I already said, very funny! The most amusing travel writer I’ve ever read. Australia, as you have never experienced it before…. And you will learn an amazing amount of interesting trivia, while you’re at it. |
Books, books and books......... |
Links to my all-time favourites... Wilbur Smith Lindsey Davis Stephen King Dean Koontz Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Michael Connelly Bill Bryson ...and other things.... Amazon Deutschland Amazon UK Oprah's Bookclub Not Oprah's Bookclub!! The Book Haven Books I gave up on.... |
The last 10 books I read: Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars Greg Bear - Moving Mars Philip Shelby - Last Right Bill Bryson - In a Sunburned Country Gregory Benford - Timescape Craig Thomas - Slipping Into Shadow Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead Leslie Glass - Burning Time Wilbur Smith - Eye Of The Tiger Nelson DeMille - The Lion's Game |
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What I have been reading in..... January 2002 December 2001 November 2001 October 2001 September 2001 August 2001 July 2001 June 2001 May 2001 April & March 2001 Back to the current bookpage... |
.........in February 2002 |