Ian

• Rated 5 stars

“Very enjoyable. Consider it "thinking fiction", in the sense that Doyle does a great job of giving you just enough information to perhaps guess the true crime. It's not great literature, but it is hard to put down. It earned my respect.”

Ian wrote this review Sunday, December 3 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“An engaging and informative book about grassroots, small-franchise journalism, such as blogging. Gilmor is a well-informed and thoughtful writer. That said, this book didn't strike me as anything particularly revolutionary or groundbreaking. My own view is that anyone who routinely trusts a blog for hard news is begging for misinformation on a much grander and less accountable scale than if you tracked CNN and the Wall Street Journal.”

Ian wrote this review Sunday, December 3 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“Amazingly forward-thinking and accurate to a nearly prophetic degree about future sea exploration, but not a terribly exciting read. Besides Nemo, the captain of the remarkable submarine and a brilliant villain, the characters are fairly drab. The narrative gets bogged down in page after page of oceanological and zoological banter. Interesting, just not that gripping...”

Ian wrote this review Saturday, February 10 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 1 stars

“Badly sourced. Hypocritical. Inaccurate. Whiny. I so wanted to agree with her, but Coulter's book is like "yo' mama" insults being shouted across a playground during 2nd grade recess. When your first argument is about liberal name-calling, it's the dumbest response in the world to spend the rest of your book iterating on catchy putdowns. *sigh*”

Ian wrote this review Saturday, December 2 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“If God is truly good, why do awful things happen to good people? Why does evil exist at all? If God can't lose, why does so much garbage happen?

This book is part of a series by Boyd, tackling this mother of all theological problems. If you interpret the Bible in a fragmentary fashion, you can end up with a view of Yahweh as either omni-controlling and therefore tolerant of evil, or weak and irrelevant. Neither is true, but finding the accurate middle ground is tough. This book walks the line admirably, with sound biblical backing.”

Ian wrote this review Friday, December 1 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“Dekker drew me in with the fast pace and unpredictable plot line in Thr3e. This psychological thriller keeps you on the hook to the last word. I have to admit to a slight disappointment with the final turn of events -- no spoilers though, I promise. That, and a smattering of half-baked dialog in sections keep me from giving this book 5 stars. Besides that, it's highly entertaining. I haven't been so caught up in a paperback novel since Crichton's Timeline.”

Ian wrote this review Sunday, November 11 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“Predictable, pulpy, self-important, pompous, and dull...”

Ian wrote this review Thursday, December 7 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“Sadly, a whole generation now knows Winnie the Pooh exclusively as an animated character. Don't get me wrong, the original Pooh cartoons are great in their own way, but they're not very true to these incredibly innocent and rapturous stories by Milne. Don't even get my started on the newer Pooh cartoons; they're awful, touchy-feely, gooey bits of uncongealed silliness. These stories, on the other hand, are classics.”

Ian wrote this review Saturday, October 28 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 1 stars

“An genuinely interesting story idea that Crichton killed with corny dialog, and terribly predictable plot turns. The last few chapters ruin an otherwise so-so book. Couldn't even bring myself to finish it.”

Ian wrote this review Friday, October 27 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“A classic childhood tale about a mouse-boy, adopted by a human family, and his wild adventures. The idea of a mouse driving an invisible miniature car, a sailboat, and taking a beautiful miniature girl on a date -- it still gives me chills, I think it's so cool.

As a sidenote, never, ever watch the movie. Like a Dr. Suess book, Stuart Little is practically sacred, although in a different way. I wish someone would have told Hollywood to keep its stinky, gold-ringed hands off this beautiful book!”

Ian wrote this review Thursday, October 19 2006. ( reply | permalink )