Neuromancer - William Gibson

June 4, 2016, 11:57 am

It's been such a long time since I read this the first time. I had forgotten much of the plot. I only remembered that I had loved it.

May be my favourite science fiction novel of all time. It has managed to avoid those jarring clashes with our current futuristic reality. I am not sure how, given it was written in 1984. Goddamn ... 1984.

A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colourless void...

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Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith

May 25, 2016, 11:16 pm

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The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith

May 22, 2016, 1:47 am
You're just as dead if you're knifed by a self dramatizing twat as by a professional

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The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith

May 16, 2016, 2:20 am

I read this with out realising the JKR connection. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

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The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert

May 9, 2016, 4:35 am

Loved large sections of this book, became bored and frustrated at others. Fortunately ended well.

Henry had amassed for the expedition potent supplies of mercury, laudanum, rhubarb, opium, columbo root, calomel, ipecac, lead, zinc, sulfate�some of which were actually medically helpful

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