Charlie's Bookshelf

Informal book reviews and general thoughts about books from someone who enjoys reading
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Poorly written reviews of well written books

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

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I generally don't put reviews of my college textbooks.  There are a couple of reasons for this but the primary on is that I rarely read ...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

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Before my Game Design class went completely downhill, the professor recommended this book to us.  She said that it had an interesting relati...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

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"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I s...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

11/22/63

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I first heard about 11/22/63 from an interview with Stephen King at the end of one of the first Gunslinger comics (I know, I am a nerd).  I...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

The Mongoliad: Book Three

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For the third and final book in the Mongoliad (though not the last in the overarching Foreworld Saga, as the authors keep reminding us) I de...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

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I was first exposed to the wonders of ancient Rome by Colleen McCullough's Master's of Rome series which is a novelized version of t...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

The Scar

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One of my friends offered me the loan of The Scar whenever I wanted to borrow it.  When I started Gravity's Rainbow I decided that The...
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