The Wasp Factory (Ian Banks)
Horror, 5/10 – Summer 2004 It is obsessive, gory, cruel, repellent and gut churningly unsettling. This book will no doubt encompass some of your worst nightmares and lay them out clearly for you on the page. It will destroy your innocence. The story has a twist at the end, but I was expecting more and […]
Count Zero (William Gibson)
Cyberpunk, 9/10 – Summer 2004 First realise that this is the 2nd book of a trilogy that is “Neuromancer”, “Count Zero” and “Mona Lisa Overdrive”. I don’t advice reading this until you’ve read Neuromancer and have got into the whole cyberpunk vocabulary. The plots in the storyline are deliciously challenging to unravel and Gibson certainly […]
Got Keys to Great Knollys Street (16/Jul/2004)
In July 2004, we bought a small Victorian terraced starter home 12 minutes walk from Reading railway station. It has easy parking, a park out the back and plenty of potential (i.e. needs lots of work). Owning my own house has been a dream for a long time! This is a loose representation of the […]
Inversions (Ian M Banks)
Sci-Fi, 2/10 – Spring 2004 Besides extra moons in the sky and stories of devastating meteor showers that toppled a former Empire, this novel’s squalid, pre-industrial world seems to have no sci-fi elements. I was constantly anticipating something cool to happen but it never did, or it did but was really really disappointing. I would […]
