Warren Ellis’s first novel represents everything Ellis is interested in. All the sci-fi/sex elements he is known for are very much present in this story, even more than anything else he’s written.
That’s both a strength and a flaw. If you’re really interested in those funny stories about weird sex and technology you’ll love this book. [...]

7th Son was the longest podiobook I’ve listened to. This is a trilogy series, but I started listening only when the 3rd book was already started. So I worked my way through the first two books quickly, then caught up with book 3 and listened every episode as soon as it was released.
The different listening [...]

After watching the movie adaptation, I obviously went back to the source and listened to the audio version of Stardust written by Neil Gaiman. At the same time I also looked at the illustrated book.
This is a really good fantasy/fairy tale for adults. There are many scary scenes in this book, but it also [...]

Ever since the end of book 4 I’ve been waiting for things to change dramatically. Instead nothing much happened in books 5 and 6, simply giving us information about the character’s past.
However book 7 definitely delivered on my expectations, making this my favorite book of the series by far. First of all this has the [...]

This is the book that contains the biggest surprise of them all. But I’ll get to that later. First let’s talk about the main threads running throughout this book.
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The most interesting to me is Voldemort’s past. Harry and Dumbledore finally spend some time together and work on Voldemort’s past. A lot is revealed about [...]

After a very dark and promising turn in book 4, I had high expectations for book 5. I think they were somewhat met.
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This was certainly an even darker book, which in turns meant much less “kiddie”. I was obviously happy about that.
Unlike previous books, not all the story takes place in Hogwarts, which [...]

Starting from this forth book the number of pages is doubled. I am not sure this was really needed for this story, but this book is definitely a small departure from the previous one.
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The beginning of the book is already different, it shows us what Voldermort is doing, but it will be followed up [...]

Cory Doctorow is famous for his war against DRM. But he is also a sci-fi writer and gives away his novels for free on his website. Yes, free. This way he gets much more exposure, and in the end many more people buy his books.
I read his first novel Down and Out in the Magic [...]

I read the first Harry Potter book just before the film came out and though I didn’t hate it, I must say it just didn’t catch my interest. I thought it was a little simplistic, but not dumb. More suited to a younger reader, since I usually enjoy more mature stories. So after watching the [...]

I am a huge fan of the Fight Club movie, so I’ve always wanted to read the novel from which it was adapted. Chuck Palahniuk certainly has a very distinctive style, and a lot of his lines made it to the film word by word.
Since I’d already seen the movie, the plot wasn’t a surprise [...]