Tag Archives: classic
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Not sleepy at all.
Read December 2025 Recommended for fans of PI mysteries ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain … Continue reading
Alien Emergencies, A Sector General Omnibus by James White
Read December 2024 Recommended for fans of space communities and aliens ★ ★ ★ 1/2 A series I discovered in the bottom shelves of the local library, most likely in my twenties when I was literally checking out almost … Continue reading
Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
Read September 2024 Recommended for fans of classic pulp fantasy ★ ★ ★ A delayed review of an enjoyable buddy read. It opens with Corwin in prison, blinded but with his sight returning. This allows Zelazny to catch … Continue reading
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelanzny
Read November 2024 Recommended for fans of classic sci-fi ★ ★ ★ 1/2 This book starts relatively easily, a modern U.S. hospital facility. Turns out it is a psychiatric hospital. The main character, Corwin, is suffering … Continue reading
The Dead Don’t Care by Jonathan Latimer
Read September 2024 Recommended for classic noir mystery fans ★ ★ 1/2 How something first published in 1938 ended up on my kindle is quite possibly the biggest mystery here. But my sunny, hot vacation seemed a perfect time to … Continue reading
Chess with a Dragon by David Gerrold
Read July 2024 Recommended for fans of classic sci-fi/fantasy ★ ★ 1/2 Interesting. Dated. Definitely part of the in media res school of sci-fi writing, so it took more than a minute to figure out what was going on. … Continue reading
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Read May 2024 Recommended for fans of lit fic, alcoholic noir detectives ★ ★ ★ ★ Promises what it says, really. A very long, unevenly written tale about a private eye who helps out a polite, gentle alcoholic after a … Continue reading
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
Read December, 2021 Recommended for people who really like classic sci-fi ★ ★ 1/2 I abandoned this at about page 183. Why? I fully admit much of it is me, in this particular mood in my life at this … Continue reading
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read January 2019 Recommended for fans of period mysteries, period adventure stories ★ ★ 1/2 Sherlock has been enjoying a Hollywood resurgence. That’s not what lead me to pick this up, however. Vaguely headachey, I needed a reading … Continue reading
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Read December 2018 Recommended for fans of boozy detectives ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint … Continue reading
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