Monthly Archives: January 2004

“It moves with the goofy speed of a silent movie,” Stephen King wrote of the Bachman book The Running Man. And that, possibly, is the reason this book was published as a Bachman book long after the gig was up. … Continue reading →

At a friend’s house about a week ago, the Tripods came up in conversation. I’d first read the books twenty-some years ago, as a young child, and had read them many times since then. Of the three, I had really … Continue reading →

If you’ll forgive the cliche, a cracking sea tale. The best I’ve read since Memoirs of a Buccaneer, and the first in a series of, what, 19? Lots of choice reading to come, I can tell. Intensely popular at the … Continue reading →

I have few rules for what I write here; one of them is to write within half an hour of finishing a book. (These aren’t serious book reviews — sorry to dissapoint. I just want to remember exactly what I … Continue reading →