Mike Paget writes:
"I work as an educational designer and simulation technician for the faculty of medicine, and I also make videogames in an art context. I read a fair bit of technical material, so I'm always looking to balance that with fiction. I've read the complete works of the following and liked them:
- Steinbeck
- Hemingway
- Murakami
- Kafka
- Mishima
- Hesse
- Dostoevsky
I'm not a huge Thomas Pynchon fan. But I definitely enjoy somewhat noir, suburban hallucinatory existentialism. I also read some bad fantasy pulp."
Well Mike, your question had several of our booksellers frothing at the mouth, since your taste happens to coincide nicely with theirs....
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sophomore effort more than lives up to the promise shown by her first novel, Seal Island. Admittedly, this was a bit of a stretch for me to read. I tend to like my stories a lot heavier on the paranormal than the romance. Still, some of my happiest discoveries have come from pushing my boundaries beyond my reading comfort zone. There are so many books that I would never have read and enjoyed without taking such a chance, and I am happy to add The Boundless Deep to that list.
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Invited to try out for a beginning university women's hockey team, 19-year-old Isabel Norris approaches campus life and the raucous team relationships with trepidation.
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With his novels In the Eye of Heaven, and the forthcoming In a Time of Treason, has delved deeply into myth, folklore and history to create Errest the Old, a world both strikingly familiar, yet tantalizingly strange. I have stated before that In a Time of Treason was one of my most anticipated books of 2008, and it didn't disappoint.
When writes about knights and tournaments you can smell the armour, feel the horses thunder across the lists and you shudder with the impact of lance on shield. The quieter moments of the novel are equally powerful, as Durand Col must choose between staying true to his Lord Lamoric, or his love, Lamoric's young wife Deorwen.
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Junior becomes a traitor to his reserve by going to town to the white school, on the advice of a teacher. It is a very courageous move and fraught with difficulties. At first only his parents are supportive, but with time he has some surprising victories.
Author Neil Gaiman says it very well with his review:"I have no doubt that in a year or so it'll both be winning awards and being banned." I'm betting with him. This book is hilarious, heartbreaking, and an all 'round triumph. Excuse me if it talks about something "forbidden" - we should all read it.
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