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SiFi gets personal with Chasm City Advantages: Fast paced, action packed, complicated Disadvantages: Sometimes too complicated. Lacking some periferal character detail. ...the often rancid, often sterile Chasm City. Indeed it is a marriage of both Good and Evil, sanity and insanity, the dirty and the clean which septate with dramatic distinction the sometimes confusing shifts in plot, location and time. Much like some sort of cart running away from any form of user screeching around corners to the point, but not over it, of a spillage. In some ways it is the charm of this that there is little time for stability or ... ...Any criticisms can come in the form of the lack of peripheral character development, as many of them seem just hollow in comparison to Tanner and the other main individuals. And the oddly rigid form of first person narrative which is not wholly successful. A great and enjoyable read, complicated and fast paced. Much fun will be had for SiFi/Fantasy lovers and those who just want a good Adventure with twists and turns galore! ... Karath 02.12.2007 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
The Geek shall inherit the earth Advantages: Nothing else out there comes close Disadvantages: Nothing else out there comes close This is Stephenson's masterwork. Forget Snow Crash and Zodiac (both good but not in this league - and, for my money, pass by The Diamond Age), this book sprawls across continents, drips nerd humour, history, cryptography and conspiracy theory from its every pore. Others have seen the book as a marriage between Pynchon and Gibson but that doesn't do the book justice - you'd need to chuck in some Coragasson-Boyle (for the humour of the characterisation) ... oedipus 16.01.2001 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Stunning, a really great book Advantages: Everything about it Disadvantages: none ...about an exploration into the Congo Rain Forest in Zaire. The company sending in the operation, ERTS, are in search of valuable blue diamonds, which are believed to be located in the lost city of Zinj, untouched and unexplored for five hundred years. Their rivals the Euro-Japanese seem to be winning and when they reach Zinj the end is far ahead and, at times, out of sight. ERTS on Peter Elliot and Amy to aid their party in the field, Amy is a gorilla! ... mintboy 27.07.2000 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Congo - Michael Crichton	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
hmmm, prefered the film Advantages: loads of background Disadvantages: not like the film Wasn't too keen on this, found it a bit too longwinded, with loads and loads and loads of background on Ellie! I'm sure that for some people that's a good thing, but to me this just bored me to tears! There were some good points, obviously - it was well written, just maybe a bit too descriptive at times, making you want to do a Monty Python impersonation and go: ''Get on with it!", but readable. It is quite scientific though and slow paced, which ... ...scientific and descriptive is the recipe for a book you can only read for 10 minutes at a time before getting bored. The actual story is also different from the film, particulary the ending, and I must say I do much prefer the ending of the film - much less ambigious. As the ending of the book you are given no imformation to prove that they saw aliens; in the film there is the 18 hours of blank tape (sorry for those who haven't seen the film yet!!). ... ffyrestarr 18.06.2004 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Contact - Carl Sagan	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
From Dead to Worse Advantages: Good read Disadvantages: Lots of threads, can be confusing ...A failed attempt of takeover from werewolves in another area results in Alcide becoming the new packleader. This, however, comes with a price which is the death of a few weres in the community including the previous packmaster Patrick, Maria-Star, Alcide’s girlfriend. As for the vampires, the explosion in the vampire summit results in the loss of various main personnel in Queen Sophie’s court and the King of Nevada, Felipe, grabs the opportunity. ... ...Louisiana apart from Eric and his gang. Eric surrenders to the new regime and manages to keep his area. And with Sookie saving the King from the attack of the Sophie’s last surviving child, Eric is slowly gaining the trust of the new King. And as for our heroine Sookie, a surprise meeting with her great-grandfather Niall reveals her heritage of being part-fairy. This completes Andre’s discovery of Sookie having fairy blood. And also explains the ... medgenie 21.11.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...