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boum

boum@bookrastinating.com

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Glutton reader. Mostly fiction, esp. fantasy, horror, crime and SF.

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finished reading Travail soigné by Pierre Lemaitre (Camille Verhoeven, #1)

Pierre Lemaitre: Travail soigné (français language, 2010, Librairie générale française)

Dès le premier meurtre, épouvantable et déroutant, Camille Verhoeven comprend que cette affaire ne ressemblera …

lecture engageante, bon rythme quelques surprises mais deux sont très prévisibles car aussi utilisées par d’autres auteurs: - à partir du milieu du bouquin, on a déjà rencontré le tueur. Ici bien amené. Pas comme un cheveu sur la soupe ou un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine. - il y a aussi un gros fusil de tchekhov, je n’en dirai pas plus, pour no pat divulgâcher

Iain M. Banks: The State Of The Art (Paperback, 2007, Night Shade Books)

The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, …

from enjoyable to just plain weird

about the eponymous story, is it weird i always side with the culture? from the first novel (where the main protagonist is a fierce opponent of the culture), i always thought it would be nice to live there

i’m guessing it is a trap only if you forget the post-scarcity hypothesis. as such it only is an unreachable and unrealizable utopia in our times

Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) (2005)

Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain …

it was okay. i’ll see if the next in the series is more “tight” i found the motivations of the characters a bit paper-thin also some arcs of the story are far-fetched. for example i thought the bow laser was kaput. two long chapters are about looting to fix it… but finally it works good enough

TIm Curran: Leviathan Wakes (Paperback, 2011, Orbit)

Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars …

i enjoyed it. pacing was right and engaging a few things bothered me but i cannot put my finger on them