The New Pearl Harbour - David Ray Griffin

Excellent Review of this book which includes:

...a detailed examination of Griffin's claims about the attack on the Pentagon. It is designed to illustrate how Griffin has uncritically accepted the claim of conspiracists while ignoring the ample evidence that refutes their claims. It also lists the Fallacies of Logic utilized by Meyssan and Griffin.

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Sorcery - Discworld 5 - Terry Pratchett

Pretty average "Rincewind" story.

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The Wizards first Rule - Terry Goodkind

urlllghh ... shudder ...

Really didn't like this book. I am not sure if it is the richness, quality, maturity, whatever of some of the other stuff I am reading at the moment, but this book really paled badly in comparison.

I was heartened to notice on GRRM's "From My Readers" email of the week (From My Readers):

Either she doesn't read at all, or she's a Terry Goodkind fan, and you can move on and find someone else. It's well known, mixed marriages don't work.

I am not sure if this is actually an criticism of Terry Goodkind or simply identifying that his books are vastly different to GRRM's books. In any case, I can definately identify with the sentiment.

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A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin

A re-read of this book, with a knowledge of where the story will lead and the fate of the many of the characters, it just gets better and better.

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A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin

The first book in the "Song of Ice and Fire" epic and on a short list of my favourite fantasy books. George R R Martin is a genius. He is one of the few writers that has prompted me to seek out previous work and consistently delivers diverse, unpredictable and complex stories that seem to have an unlimited weight and substance behind them.

A Game of Thrones was overwhelming, the first time I read it. The massive host of characters that are introduced give the initial and misguided impression that, for there to be so many, each character must be pigeon holed, good, evil, inconsequential. This initial reaction slowly faded as the story unwound, as I realised that each character is not a placeholder for the storyline, but an active participant. This realization was reinforced when assumptions made about a character are shattered as their very human personalities lead to events that all my conditioning to "fantasy storylines" could never have predicted.

Fellow readers can identify with the range of emotional responses evoked by the narrative twists and turns in this masterpiece.

Re-reading this description of this book, I can imagine how it might sound a little fanatical to the uninitiated, but I think if my reaction to this book was anything other than that, it would be an understatement.

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