Autobiography of Red28 reviews Anne Carson Vintage, 1998 Amazed + Framing and Layers of Life + Wanting to return + "Autobiography of Red" Is A Modern Masterpiece + The Human Custom of Wrong Love             City of Dreadful Night : A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India2 reviews Lee Siegel University Of Chicago Press, 1995 Postmodern Examination of Horror and the Macabre This was one of the best novels I've read within recent memory. For anyone interested in India, this novel will stimulate you intellectually and recall for you the sights, sounds and smells of India. The structure of the novel is fascinatingly postmodern and the writing is itself lush and ...             A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)397 reviews Ursula K. Le Guin Bantam, 1984 perfect + I liked it... I was bored x2... Then I liked it... + Well written, introspective, but a little dull at times This book arrived well before the expected date and was a great buy. I will be buying from them again.             The Difference Engine (Spectra Special Editions)100 reviews William Gibson Spectra, 1992 Very good book This book is a definite landmark book, full of good ideas, but it isn't the wonder everyone seems to think it is. Disjointed storytelling in places, a few sex scenes, a bit draggy in the middle and end, but still an interesting book.             The Dispossessed94 reviews Ursula K. Le Guin Eos, 1994 Outstanding Utopian Work of Freedom and Liberty + But which is the better world? + Overall, solid + Anarchy In Outerspace             Woman on the Edge of Time90 reviews Marge Piercy Fawcett, 1985 If you were inspired by this novel, check on books on social ecology! + Simply amazing + Neat ! Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time," is perhaps my favorite utopian novel. I speak here of utopia as a "good place," not a "perfect imaginary place," though the two are often confused. This novel is a prime example of a wonderful critical utopia, showing utopia not as a static "end of ...             Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold189 reviews C.S. Lewis Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980 C.S. Lewis's Masterpiece + I love this book + Beyond Excellent + I've Lived In It + The Best of Paganism             Idoru141 reviews William Gibson Berkley Trade, 2003 for jaded futurists in search of "that physical thing" + Virtual is Almost Real There is an odd surface tension here; some readers may approach Idoru from the wrong bias, through the lens of Neuromancer and the Sprawl trilogy. Those readers will expect the traditional cyberpunk romp of amphetamine-fueled Yakuza battles and twisted violent sex in coffin hotels; those readers ...             Baudolino110 reviews Umberto Eco Harcourt, 2002 Constantinople + Fantastical + Not your average look at history + Good in the end.             The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye25 reviews A.S. Byatt Vintage, 1998 This book contains one of the finest novellas in English + Great stories by a great storyteller + A.S. Byatt, weaver of magical tales + a lovely book + Beautiful fairty tales for adults!             My Name Is Red122 reviews Orhan Pamuk Vintage, 2002 Read and See + A book of very special qualities + You must burn to learn... + Both form and function explore a deeper conversation about the meaning of art             Grendel162 reviews John Gardner Vintage, 1989 Civilization Ruins Everything + Distrubed.... This is not the simple tale of what moves the monster to attack the mead hall. Yes, this is the classic Beowulf tale told from Grendel's perspective, but it's no easy narrative of me-against-him. There is an awful lot more going on here. Grendel is the basic human, the proto-human animal ...             The Moor's Last Sigh80 reviews Salman Rushdie Vintage, 1997 Wonderful book + Big Fan of Rushdie + Lovely and Complex + Simply magical             Fugitive Pieces: A Novel144 reviews Anne Michaels Vintage, 1998 Literary nourishment + Beautiful writing... + Beautiful + Great book! + A work of poetry             The Wandering Jew (European Classics)7 reviews Stefan Heym Northwestern University Press, 1999 A Fable of moral issues + A Romp + an intelectual must + THE WANDERING JEW (Der ewige Jude) by Stephan Heym + Excellent             Mona Lisa Overdrive47 reviews William Gibson Spectra, 1989 Best sprawl narrative. + A pretty good end... + Not Free SF Reader + Probably my favorite Gibson + Razor girl shines             Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron12 reviews Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 Definitely not Evita the musical + The best biography of Evita + La Razon di mi Vida - the violent myth of Eva Peron + Evita: The Real Life of Evita Peron + The legend lives on             He, She and It33 reviews Marge Piercy Fawcett, 1993 Spiritual SF + he she it review + A longtime favorite + Great feminist cyberpunk             The Cosmic Serpent64 reviews Jeremy Narby Tarcher, 1999 A Very Interesting Read + 6th Sense? I sincerely enjoyed reading this book as I could not put it down. This book is roughly 240 pages with eleven chapters. And, it is very easy to read. Narby's "Notes" section at the end of the book is lengthy and informative. "The Cosmic Serpent" reads more like a novel or a personal journey ...             Pattern Recognition274 reviews William Gibson Berkley, 2005 Excellent and Multifaceted Story + Couldn't put it down You walk with the protagonist as she tries to figure out who her mysterious employer is and what her real assignment might be; you are variously helped and threatened--sometimes by the same people--and things are rarely only what they appear to be. More than that, this young woman has a ...