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reviewed: Inferno: A Novel (Robert Langdon)

A prisoner of his formula. Dan Brown is a prisoner of his formula, finding some odd historical theory and exploding into a n...

Inferno - Dan Brown

reviewed: Our Game

Tim is an early middle aged retired spy put out to pasture. The pasture happens to include his girlfriend, the young and very...

Our Game - John le Carré

reviewed: Nobody Move: A Novel

Good fun. Nowhere as deep as his other works, but good fun and a step up for airplane books.

Nobody Move - Denis Johnson

reviewed: The Crook Factory

Dan Simmons has written a number of fantastic books - some of my favorites are Hyperion, Illium, and Flashback, mostly in the...

The Crook Factory - Dan Simmons

reviewed: Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus (The Chaos! Quincunx)

I received Minor Episodes through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. It sounded intriguing and odd. From the blurb: "M...

Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus - Garry Thomas Morse

reviewed: The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby

Imagine if the number 2 or 3 person at the CIA was a Soviet agent. Sounds impossible, right? Not so. Kim Philby was responsib...

The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby - Phillip Knightley

reviewed: The Gun Seller

As part of LibraryThing's wonderful Early Reviewers program, I was able to get a copy of Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller. You pr...

The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie, Simon Prebble

reviewed: Alif the Unseen

Tales of Thousand and One Nights meets Arab Spring meets Cryptonomicon. Great fun.

Alif the Unseen - G. Willow Wilson

reviewed: Mission to Paris

Through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program, I was fortunate enough to receive a pre-release copy of Mission to Paris, a...

Mission to Paris - Alan Furst

reviewed: When the Shark Bites

A look inside the real Hawaii and the views of native Hawaiians, switching between the 1970s and more current times.

Morales: When the Shark Bites - Rodney Morales

reviewed: Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel

Tim Powers is the master of the historical magical fantasy novel. Weaving together fragments of historical truth with magical...

Hide Me Among the Graves - Tim Powers

reviewed: Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination

Interesting read on the pyscho-acoustics of how the brain hears and reacts to music. Interesting theories, but many of them a...

Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination - Robert Jourdain

reviewed: The Last Werewolf

really digging The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. Highlander meets An American Werewolf in London.

The Last Werewolf - Glen Duncan

reviewed: Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel (James Bond Novels, Book 1)

Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a l...

Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

reviewed: Dancing with Eternity

Dancing with Eternity is a first novel by John Patrick Lowrie. It's the far distant future and people mostly no longer die. T...

Dancing With Eternity - John Patrick Lowrie

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