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zdislaw

  • Silver Spring, Ma, US
  • member since Tuesday, July 10 2007

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  • A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I loved the way that the author made me see the different groups involved in the story. The familiarity of the "aliens," and the strangeness of the "humans" was a nice twist. That part of it actually reminded me a bit of Octavia Butler and how she twists humanity in on itself and gets a new look at it. A really long book, but I enjoyed it a lot.”

    zdislaw wrote this review Wednesday, March 12 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Bone Volume 3: Eyes of the Storm
    • Rated 5 stars

    “I'd flipped through this enough times over the years to know that I wanted to sit down and really have some time with it. I wasn't disappointed after finally picking up a copy. The characters are well drawn and written, and the story compelling. There is enough humor and enough mystery to keep the pages turning.”

    zdislaw wrote this review Monday, February 18 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
    • Rated 3 stars

    “I really liked elements of it but didn't feel like I ever really came to care what happened to the characters. The "hero" definitely has things happen very nicely for him. ”

    zdislaw wrote this review Monday, February 18 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Enchantment
    • Rated 3 stars

    “This book was recommended by a friend who rarely steers me wrong. I love fairy tales, and am especially fond of fairy tales aimed at adults. This is such a book. Interweaving Russian folk tales with modern science, time travel, and a love story, it pulls off all angles pretty darn well. ”

    zdislaw wrote this review Friday, September 21 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Lorax (Classic Seuss)
    • Rated 5 stars

    “I was four years old when this book was published, and my parents bought it for me the moment it was. I credit The Lorax with instilling in me much of my sense of justice, fairness, conservation, and activism. The colors and words, as with all of Dr. Suess' books, fairly leap off the page and stay with me long after. An absolute classic!”

    zdislaw wrote this review Tuesday, September 11 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Last Colony
    • Rated 3 stars

    “While not quite as funny or compelling as the first two books in the series (Old Man's War remains my favorite), I did enjoy this, the third. Called away to head up a new colony in the face of a new interstellar organization calling for the cessation of all colonialization, John Perry and Jane Sagan become caught up in political machinations that sometimes present themselves in an artificially revelatory way and are resolved in oddly convenient ways. This extremely helpful Dues ex Machina is a bit of a problem with Scalzi's other books as well, but doesn't really detract from the usually very funny writing that serves his stories well.”

    zdislaw wrote this review Friday, September 21 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1)
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I've liked all of the books in the "Women of the Otherworld" series, but this one remains my favorite. Elena Michaels is a strong, smart, sexy protagonist, and Kelley Armstrong is really good at weaving the fantastic in with just enough of our familiar world to separate this from other books of this type.”

    zdislaw wrote this review Tuesday, August 28 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Scary. Small, dark, and scary. These stories are short, staccato, jolts of fright. I love these stories.”

    zdislaw wrote this review Wednesday, July 11 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions)
    • Rated 5 stars

    “This is one of my all-time favorite books. The way that Ray Bradbury captures the sights, smells, and emotions of being a twelve-year-old boy at the start of summer never fails to transport me to a childhood I remember only from this book.”

    zdislaw wrote this review Wednesday, July 11 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Fledgling: A Novel
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Octavia Butler steps out of her usual Sci-Fi and into a new character and world. Unfortunately, she died shortly after publishing this start to a new series, so we'll never know what happens to Shori. Butler's imagining of how a modern-day Vampire clan would work is as fresh and interesting as you'd expect.”

    zdislaw wrote this review Tuesday, July 10 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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