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What are you worth?

84K by Claire North

January 26, 2019 by ClaireBadger 2 Comments

Theo is an average citizen in a fairly average dystopia. You know the kind: human rights violations are normal, everyone is scared, and the government wields unilateral power with virtually no opposition; or, to be more accurate, The Company (a mega corp) runs the government, which wields power with virtually no opposition. Everyday, Theo gets up, goes to work, calculates the financial costs of crimes to society, slaps a bill on the perpetrator, bothers absolutely no one, stands up not even for himself (to the point where he is in the absolute worst corner of the office), then goes home […]

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1/26/2019 | ClaireBadger's CBR11 Review No:2 |
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| Tags: #Science Fiction, 1984, 84K, British, capitalism, children of men, Claire North, dystopia, handmaid's tale, sci-fi, spec-fic, Speculative Fiction | Category: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction | 2 Comments

Hell Hath No Fury

Widows by Lynda La Plante

January 20, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Widows the movie was perhaps my favorite film of 2018. A crackling crime thriller with polished dialogue and sharp social commentary, it’s the best crime movie I’ve seen in recent years. I didn’t know until after seeing it that it was based on an English time show created by famed auteur Lynda La Plante. The book is a tie-in to the show. La Plante’s Prime Suspect was one of my least favorite reads in 2018. It wasn’t bad by any stretch, but the writing felt static. I later learned that the book was a product of her taking the screenplay for Prime Suspect and […]

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1/20/2019 | Jake's CBR11 Review No:9 |
| Tags: British, Lynda La Plante, thriller, Widows | Category: Suspense | 0 Comments

I spent New Year’s Day in Hogwarts.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

January 2, 2019 by narfna 14 Comments

First of all I have read this book more times than I can count, literally. I know I’ve read this first one at least twelve times because that’s how many copies of it I own, but that is a gross underestimate because many of those copies I have read multiple times (especially the battered paperback I still have from 1999). I also used to re-read every year, and every time a new book in the series came out, so I’ve read this one the most. My OCD is crying inside because I didn’t keep track of what books I read and how […]

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1/2/2019 | narfna's CBR11 Review No:1 |
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| Tags: #fantasy, British, children's lit, favorites, Harry Potter, harry potter and the philosopher's stone, J.K. Rowling, narfna, re-reads | Category: Children's, Fantasy | 14 Comments

Well worth the re-read

World's End (Age of Misrule, Book 1) by Mark Chadbourn

December 6, 2018 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

I first read The Age of Misrule trilogy decades ago and seem to remember thinking it was only OK, but since then I’ve found my mind often returning to some of its scenes and ideas and so decided it was high time for a re-read. Based on the first book, so far my re-read has discovered that, while it has its flaws, my younger self was far too scathing in my initial assessment. In World’s End, we meet five strangers drawn together to try and avert an apocalypse. The Age of Reason is over, and creatures from legend are starting […]

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12/6/2018 TheShitWizard's CBR10 Review No:80 |
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| Tags: British, fantasy, Fiction, folklore, horror, mark chadbourn | Category: Fantasy, Fiction | 0 Comments

I was drugged up when I wrote this.

Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4) by Robert Galbraith

November 28, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

NB: I received a gratis copy of this book, but that has not affected the content of my review. This is a fact which you will quickly believe once you read the review. Thanks for my free copy, publishers!!!! I’ve been trying to write this review for a little while now, just staring at the blank screen, but I’m on some drugs right now that are making me diiiizzy*, so I apologize in advance if this review doesn’t come out as coherent as I’m thinking it is. *Yesterday while waiting for the results of a CT scan which I was […]

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11/28/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:141 |
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| Tags: British, cormoran strike, JK Rowling, lethal white, mysteries, narfna, Robert Galbraith | Category: Mystery | 2 Comments

Probably my least favorite of these books.

The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7) by Arthur Conan Doyle

November 28, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

I liked this, I did. But the first half was just an extended Holmes story (a pretty good one!), while the second half was basically pointless. I don’t think this should have been a full length novel. The content of the story just doesn’t justify it. The Valley of Fear was published in full in 1915 (after being serialized in The Strand of course), so by this point, Conan Doyle had been writing the character for almost thirty years. (This was also around the time Conan Doyle started getting super into spiritualism, and about five years before he started believing […]

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11/28/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:140 |
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| Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, audiobooks, British, Detective Fiction, mystery, narfna, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry, the valley of fear | Category: Mystery | 0 Comments

“Holmes,” I cried. “Is it really you?”

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) by Arthur Conan Doyle

October 31, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

While gathering my thoughts to start writing this review, I kept getting the feeling that this was my favorite of the Holmes story collections so far. With this feeling in mind, I moseyed on over to Goodreads to look at my status updates to try to collect evidence to back it up (I rate and do mini-reviews for every story), whereupon I found to my surprise that my reaction to most of the stories was just good, not great. It’s a solid story collection! However, only two out of the thirteen stories I liked enough to really remember and have fond feelings for. […]

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10/31/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:131 |
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| Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, audiobooks, British, classics, Detective Fiction, mysteries, narfna, Sherlock Holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, Stephen Fry, the return of sherlock holmes | Category: Mystery, Short Stories | 0 Comments

“All his life he’d used words to distract attention from this deep inarticulacy, this unspeakable emotion which he would now have to use words to describe.”

Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3) by Edward St. Aubyn

September 30, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

On a prose level, I didn’t enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed the first two, which were extremely clever and a bit raw. Here, with Patrick sober (for several years, it’s implied), he once again is one among many points of view, just as he was in the first book as a five year old, when his parents’ dinner guests held most of the narrative focus. Here the party is for some duke or other on his birthday, and the Princess Margaret is coming. But he is still the center of the narrative, which sort of pivots around […]

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9/30/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:120 |
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| Tags: black comedy, British, Edward St Aubyn, lit-fic, literary, narfna, Patrick Melrose, social satire, some hope | Category: Fiction | 2 Comments
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