Wednesday 28 September 2011
A change of tack
Wednesday 21 September 2011
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Wednesday 15 June 2011
Excession
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Solar
Solar is one of the best selling books of last year and is different for the fact that the protagonist is a physicist, a famous physicist. However unlike a Dan Brown novel the intelligent main character isn't used to solve problems, although he does find an answer to the world's energy problem that is not what the narrative follows. Alternatively it shows the man behind the genius and the troubles that cause him strife.
Even though this is a work of total fiction it feels like you are getting an insight into the mind and life of a burdened soul isolated at the top through a combination of bad decisions and bad luck.
I think this is a very readable book, there is so much to it that is engrossing to discover, hence my lack of elaboration. However, I doubt others will pick it up for the same reason I did, a book about a Nobel prize winning physicist (who could resist). So I urge you to pick it up as it is a compelling story which will keep you reading. So even though it is not the best book I have ever read, which is still Wasp, it is still worth the read.
With that I bid you goodbye and good reading.
Ed
Wednesday 1 June 2011
The Player of Games
Wednesday 25 May 2011
I am legend
Thanks to the blockbuster film with Will Smith or even just the back cover you will know that this story is about vampires. However, I think this is a great injustice as it takes some of the gravitas out of the first few pages. Richard Matheson cleverly builds the world around Neville, held up in his house just to stay alive. Also, to label the novel as a vampire story is short sighted as it was the inspiration to the zombie genre. Yet to think of this as purely a piece of horror fiction is wrong. With it written from a third person perspective a modicom of distance is given between the reader and Neville yet you are pulled through his mental ups and downs. With the collapse of the society around him, morals become just an ignorable nagging, left at the way side in order to survive.
This book is nothing like the film, as I mentioned earlier I think it even detracts from it. Thus, I would urge you to read it and if I had my way people would read this before any other zombie or recent vampire novels, having read Bram Stoker's Dracula is always a must.
So, after having given away the threat that befalls Neville to any of you who didn't know already I bid you goodbye and good reading.
Ed