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…The Windup Girl

After 100 pages of The Windup Girl, exactly 8 chapters, [...]

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…Leviathan

I picked up Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan last night and trail-blazed the first 100 pages before I fell asleep. If I maintain my current pace, I should complete the novel before the end of the week...

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…The Lies of Locke Lamora

Really, I should say this is my first impressions after 350 pages of The Lies of Locke Lamora, as I stayed up until 4:15 AM this morning, glued to its pages. Clearly, that provides some sort of hint as...

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…Boneshaker

I cheat, as I’ve only read 88 pages of Boneshaker [...]

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…Warbreaker

My first impression of Brandon Sanderson’s Warbre [...]

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…Ilium

To say there is a whole lot going on in Ilium would be a huge understatement. The novel begins with three separate settings and sets of characters, each of them completely compartmentalized from the...

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…The Heroes

Joe Abercrombie has earned a reputation for writing gritty, intense fantasy that’s unafraid to deconstruct and reexamine the old fantasy tropes. I’m glad to say, “Joe’s back,” this time with The...

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…Clementine

100 pages into Clementine, and I couldn’t help bu [...]

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…Ship Breaker

After having read (and been quite impressed by) Paolo B [...]

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…Reamde

With the arrival of e-books and online retailers, I fret that local book shops might be doomed to extinction, along with the dodo, glaciers, and letting children trick-or-treat on Halloween without...

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