Ursula K. Le Guin did, in The Dispossessed, which I just finished listening to. This book was described to me as the anti Atlas Shrugged, which made me instantly buy it without hearing anything else. It holds up to this description by being of reasonable length, by having realistic, likable characters, and by describing ideas …
Xenogenesis
I just finished the Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia E. Butler, and am somewhat shocked that I've not heard of her before now. After reaching the last page and hearing the narrator say 'first published in 1989' I was even more startled. How have I gone most of my life without hearing about this series or author, …
Deadpool! I liked it, and you probably will too
I am sick to death of super hero movies, which is one of the reasons I went to see Deadpool. Cause I'd heard it kinda takes the piss out of them. It does! But... it also is a super hero movie itself, enough so that the people who love super hero movies will still love …
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The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster
I don't read a lot of (or any, really) literary fiction. But I was recommended this book, or, trilogy of novellas, I guess, by a friend and was impressed by its strangeness. It grabbed my attention right from the start by being about a writer who seems to be confusing himself with his characters. Then …
Hyperion
I finished this amazing sci fi story a few weeks back, and am still thinking about parts of it. I thought I had read this before, because I had owned it as a teenager, but after the first few chapters I didn't remember any of it, and I think I may not have finished it because …
Jonas David 