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

Sunday, June 22, 2014

You Can Date When You're Forty

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My first exposure to Dave Barry was my father reading me his columns out of the paper.  The style of humor in the columns would have us both...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Sweet Thursday

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I received a John Steinbeck collection as a Christmas gift a few years ago and I enjoyed it, having never read anything by him before.  It h...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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The first (and only before this) Murakami book I read was 1Q84 .  It was not a great book.  It had a lot of unresolved questions at the end ...
Monday, April 7, 2014

The Man in the High Castle

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After reading and enjoying Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep , I knew I wanted to read more Phillip K. Dick.  I read that The Man in the H...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Katabasis & Siege Perilous

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At the end of the first three Mongoliad books, the main plot has been resolved but there are a few and fertile ground for imagining what hap...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

The Princess Bride

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I am, as you may have guessed from the books I read, a big fan of The Princess Bride  the movie.  The blend of romance and action and wittic...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

To Be or Not To Be

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Following my last post about Hyperbole and a Half  coincidentally this next post is also an "internet book".  Ryan North writes on...
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