Das unheimliche Erwachen

Very cool radio play, great story. 4 out of 5 stars.

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Besuch aus der Nachbarschaft von Lars Engelmann

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Puke awful terrible, bad, stopped reading, 0/5 stars.

Gunpowder Moon by David Pedreira

Fantastic book.  Tight plot, thrilling, hard science, great characters, 5/5 stars. Could not put it down.
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Fun radio play with a bad ending 3/5 stars.

Norse Mythology

This short, concise book is pretty good.  Very entertaining! 4/5 stars.

Verrat auf Venus

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I enjoyed the story line in this radio drama.  The dialogue was much too fast so I had to slow it down while listening.  3/5 stars.

The Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn

I love Michael Flynn's writing but this story was too depressing for me.  And the characterization was way over-the-top.  The story reads like a mythology or ancient Theogony.  There were two or three aphorisms in every paragraph.  I don't recommend this one, 2/5 stars.
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Katabasis

Book 5 of the Mongoliad: Better than book 4.  Worth reading to find out what happens to the characters we love from earlier books; I am losing interest in this series, 3/5 stars.​

Siege Perilous

Another book in the Mongoliad series started by Neal Stephenson: this one continues the adventures of the surviving heroes from the previous book.  The writing is getting worse and I did not care about the characters or the history, 2/5 stars.  Meh.
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11/22/63 by Stephen King

Stephen King creates the best prose of any writer alive today.  I, personally dislike the horror genre and I don't usually read much of what King writes, despite my love for his style.  This book is horror at its core, does a typically bad job of enabling the reader to suspend disbelief for time travel and the paradoxes associated with it, and has a terrible ending.  None-the-less the immersion in the history of that time and the perspectives of the protagonist about the pros and cons of the 1950's / 1960's era are fantastic.  3/5 stars.  Highly entertaining and absorbing.
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