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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