I Enjoyed This...
4 stars
I have been a fan of Bob Mould's music for over 25 years. This as a neat telling of his story, and I enjoyed it a great deal.
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Carl reviewed The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
Good First Novel in the Trilogy
4 stars
This was enjoyable. The world-building was good. You can feel the tension building for the next chapters in this story. Very space opera; being a space opera fan, I don't care.
Carl reviewed Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock takes readers on a thrilling, chilling visit to our not-too-distant future – a …
Didn't Go Off The Rails
4 stars
My biggest frustration with Stephenson books of late (#Seveneves, #FallOrDodgeInHell) is that IMO they went way off the rails in the third act. This was a fun read, my first venture into #clifi. This gave me a lot to think about, and I felt it ended well.
Carl reviewed Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the …
Fun Introduction To Stephenson
4 stars
The dates are a total guess; (side note: an annoyance I have on BookWyrm right now is that in order to list a book as read, you have to give exact read dates, which I don't track, especially for a book I read roughly 25 years ago). I enjoyed this a great deal; back at that time the techno-libertarian themes of the book appealed to me, 'Hiro Protagonist' was a cute joke, and there was useful social commentary. It was a fun way to explore things that have now come to be.
Unclobber by Colby Martin
Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude toward the LGBT community. Armed with …
Carl rated Daring Greatly: 5 stars
Carl rated Good Christian Sex: 5 stars
Carl rated The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: 5 stars
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to …
Carl reviewed Milk Run by Nathan Lowell
Academy graduate Natalya Regyri stood first in line for her pick of Engineering Officer jobs, …
Review of 'Milk Run' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Very fun addition to the Nathan Lowell series of stories in the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper.
Carl rated The Forever War (The Forever War, #1): 5 stars
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about …
Carl rated The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3): 4 stars
The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3) by John Scalzi
The Last Colony is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi, the third set in his Old Man's …
Carl reviewed Your hate mail will be graded by John Scalzi
A compilation of some of the writings from the author's popular blog, Whatever, from 1998 …
Review of 'Your hate mail will be graded' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
To be clear, I have not read all of the essays in this book, a collection of his blog posts from the first ten years of his blog, but unless the essays left were posted by some pathetic alien poseur who captured Scalzi's brain and keyboard, the quality and insight of these are nigh impossible to decrease enough to lower the rating of the book.
Carl rated The Ghost Brigades: 4 stars
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi, the second book set in his Old …
