Last day in heaven. Stayed in, ate, drank, said farewell to Bigbro. Also finished Target, my eleventh read this month, tenth while in Paris, which turned out to be a letdown. I had enjoyed his first novel, The Business Of Dying, a lot and had great expectations for this one, his latest thriller. The plot was beyond cliche, the dialogue wasn’t as funny as the first time around, the characters wasn’t as engaging, and the story kept getting dragged on uselessly. Barely earns passing grade.
As promised, the list of purchases this month. In bold what I read these past three weeks, in italics what I’ll carry home with me, the rest coming with Bigbro at Easter. FYI: my backpack is killing me, it hangs at a bit more than the allowed 7kg. Leaving with the hope that, as usual, the airport folks don’t make me weigh it.
Aldous Huxley • Brave New World;
Ann Vandermeer • Best American Fantasy;
Campbell Armstrong • White Rage;
C.S. Lewis • The Chronicles of Narnia;
Dan Simmons • Hyperion;
Dan Simmons • The Fall of Hyperion;
David Mitchell • Ghostwritten;
Dean Koontz • Strangers;
Glen Cook • A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire;
Glen Cook • Passage at Arms;
Glen Cook • The Dragon Never Sleeps;
Joe Meno • The Boy Detective Fails;
John Armstrong • Grey;
John Kennedy Toole • Confederacy of Dunces;
John Shirley • Living Shadows;
Liz Williams • The Demon & The City;
Kathleen Parker • Light Music (later exchanged for Lombres)
Kate Mosse • Sepulchre;
Matthew Kneale • English Passengers;
Michael Chabon • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay;
Mary Doria Russell • The Sparrow;
Neal Asher • Prador Moon;
Neal Stephenson • Cryptonomicon;
Orson Scott Card • Ender’s Shadow;
Peter F. Hamilton • Fallen Dragon;
Philip Roth • The Plot Against America;
Richard Kadrey • Butcher Bird;
Richard Russo • Straight Man;
Ronald Wright • A Scientific Romance;
Simon Kernick • Target;
William Gibson • Idoru.