His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few people
Terry Pratchett
This is a very unusual instance of me buying a book “by chance” – the kindle daily deal was offering this series very cheaply and I needed something to read on my tablet that was not too demanding. Turns out that these are easy reading and quite entertaining – although the fact that it goes from thriller to sci-fi/fantasy does rather stretch the bounds of believability.
There are three books in the series (got them all cheap) so I have included all the books.
The first book in this series, The Long Earth, was mildly baffling – not because of the story itself but because it left me with a “why” question mark about the point of the story.
This is the first book in the “Inspector Rebus” series.
Again this post covers more than one book as it makes sense to list all the books I have so far in the series.
At last another Pratchett – and worth the wait. Lots of the characters from previous books appear in this one.
Excellent story. The idea of exploring some aspects of how life might have been had the events at the start of the second world war had gone in a completely different direction is well handled. Of course, this is only one possible alternate universe!!! However, it was a good book to have added to my birthday list!
This is the last book in a series I started reading over thirty years ago! Looking forward to finding out how it concludes.
Unusually this post covers more than one book as it makes sense to list the entire series
I have had this on my tablet ready to read for ages, but was never sure that it was a ‘good’ book for me to read. Glad I did in the end – it is a marvelously funny and interesting book – full of twists and turns and (just about) believable in its foolishness!
Another Bernard Cornwell yarn. Entertaining and not too taxing…
After Reamde this did seem a little light-weight – both in terms of physical weight and the story itself. It is, however, a good example of how things can go badly wrong when people fail to look to the “big picture” and instead concentrate simply on maximising their own local goals.
It is a while since I read Anathem and that was the last Neal Stephenson book that I have worked my way through.
Excellent book – let down only by a slightly tame ending (in my view at least). Stephenson writes stories that draw you in and – although the book is huge – it is unputdownable!