Regular Guy Book Reviews

Review: <em>Bad Hair Day</em> by Jim Benton

This fun, goofy chapter book is the latest (after a ten-year hiatus) in the Franny K. Stein: Mad Scientist series.…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Semiosis</em> by Sue Burke

Given a billion more years of evolution, what would plants evolve into? Given that life on Earth went from single-celled…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Dragon’s Egg</em> by Robert L. Forward

Dragon’s Egg is a fun, clever look at life evolving on the surface of a neutron star, where one hour…

7 years ago

Review: <em>House of Suns</em> by Alastair Reynolds

Author Alastair Reynolds isn’t afraid of big, strange ideas, and he puts on a parade of them in House of…

7 years ago

Review: <em>The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.</em> by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. is brilliant, fast-paced, and will give you sore wrists because it’s a thick, heavy…

7 years ago

Review: <em>The Breach</em> by Patrick Lee

The Breach is a fast-paced thriller, a firehose of plot unburdened with character development. A lone hiker in Alaska comes…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Never Let Me Go</em> by Kazuo Ishiguro

The alternate history Never Let Me Go follows the lives of several children who grew up in a strange, special…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Girl in Landscape</em> by Jonathan Lethem

My kid is learning to play the piano, and part of that is using dynamics: playing some parts of the…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Strata</em> by Terry Pratchett

Fantasy author Terry Pratchett is famous for his Discworld series, comprised of over forty books taking place on a round,…

7 years ago

Review: <em>The Half-Made World</em> by Felix Gilman

The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman is a wild, inventive ride. It takes place in a seriously alternate version of…

7 years ago