Charlie's Bookshelf

I received Gravity's Rainbow as a Christmas gift.  The back cover made it sound a little strange, missiles hitting in exactly the same ...

Reading this blog, it becomes readily apparent that I am a big fan of Neal Stephenson.  I have read the majority of his books and am eagerly...

A while back I read Freakonomics (and reviewed it on here).  I really enjoyed the book, it offered an interesting perspective on several co...

When I started reading Across Realtime , I knew that I wanted to read the story that fell in between the two books contained within (see my ...

Warning: Since Across Realtime is a collection of two books, The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime , this review will have minor spoilers ...

The Mandel Files were really three books collected into two books, all written by prolific science fiction author Peter F. Hamilton.  I rec...

I realize that I am a bit behind the curve, reading Freakonomics now.  It was the big thing to be reading back when it came out, back in 200...