The list below was generated 17/1/07 and contains 285 books read from April 1996 to January 2007. The list can be viewed in three ways,
A connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. Twains last great novel. Shows his distrust of all forms of Government ! A rather cynical novel in many ways.
NON FICTION: "A history of Israel - from the rise of Zionism to our time." Covers Zionism frm 1800 to Yitzchak Rabins Assasination. Goves both praise and critisism. Lots of quotes, primary and sec.
Part2 (of 2) of "Mordant's Need". Fantasy about kingdoms and magic mirrors.
Written in a confusion manner that only makes sence at the end.
Short stories
Lancaster station mentioned on page 276!
Language ok, but charctors and plot show certain biases eg main charators are repeatedly told they're "young" and treated like kids, when their ages are given as 25.
NON FICTION. A diary by Dayan's daughter about the 1967 sinai campaign
Powerfull. Pasionate and violent. But mostly VERY powerfull.
good fanatasy book
Good book, very funny in places
Final in the trillogy of the "Knight of the word". More of a thriller then a fantasy book I think.
Read in under 5 hours. The "hero" is the bad guy, who seems to be "evil". Story is not at all deep, charactors are also shallow, and structure wonders all over the place as is a bit repedative.
The evil charactors are positivly evil and very 3 dimentional. The good charactors.. Seem to have a hard time, and often die.
SF space story. Last book of some serries. Haven't read the rest though. :)
book one of the Farseer Trilogy
book three of the Farseer Trilogy. Very good, deeply engaging. All it lacks from magician is an element of compassion, particularly the ending where there is no reason to be so harsh.
Light Reading
Science fiction novel about advanced societies '000 of years ago, and a warning about aproaching calamity. Well writen, scientific but also adventure based.
Quick read but decent.
A story of the South, Life post holocauste, family and love. As good as magician but in it's own way
Good charactors, good story.
A parady of Lord of the Rings
Charactors are again 3D
Very funny at times but in a black humour disconnected way
Terrorist negitiation.
Makes heavy on understanding from past books.. Which I don't fully recall. Story line is ok, but a bit disjointed.
Tom Clancy style novel.. But language is not as complicated.
The last 3 lines are unneaded and degrade the ending.
good mystery / adventure story
A man looses his memory and finds he;s being shaddowed by the CIA.
3D charactors but no story line.
Book 7 of the Wheel of Time serries.
South African story by SA's most aclaimed author. Short but with brilliant discriptions. A heart warming story.
Nothing Happens ! Very repedative. Creates Cleches
Much less magic that fiests others but a lot of polical integue.
Very Techincal and Very Heavy
gripping. A naval (submarine) mission with the fate of the war (WWII) in the balance. Very factual, but incorporated well. Not too over the top as per some.
Easy reading. Funny, a bit offencive at times, misses some important stuff, but all in an easy going, fun way. Light.
Puctuation book. Funny but interesting and useful too.
Ok, but far from his best.
Book two of the Emperor series.
Good solid story with a lot of Roman history behind it.
ficticous story based around the historical events at Bletchley Park in WWII
Book 3 of the disc world serries
An ok fantasy story, book is a bit too centered on the film (which I haven'tseen)
Brilliant story of the creation of Israel, gives some amazing insite into the current political issues the use of the palastinian arabs as a political wepon (considering it was written in 1958.. this is worth reading pg 551 to 554)
first read of terry pratchet.
A story of twin brothers, both fighter piolets, on different sides of WWII. A "Special Opertations Executive" mission in the middle of the war.
Book 1 of the Tawny Man set
WWII setting. Action packed, similar to James bond. English is VERY dated. I comment sulfurically. :-)
Anti-terrorist novel. A bit... Light on story line.
Volume 1 of the well of echoes serries
The scientific elementis even more relevant today than at the time of writting. * Earth Quakes, * Plate Techtonics, * Nuclear power / wepons, * Tidal waves.
Make more sernse than Pratchetts usual work
Very Moving Story about a dog. English standard is VERY high.
Disc World Novel number 8
The story of the operations that one Haganah member was invovled with durring the british mandate and in the early days of Israel.
Book 5. Started off fairly badly but improved.
Very well written, full of twists, good suspence build up. Ab. Stealing of American Dec. Independence by Sadam + CIA and MOSAD's plan to reteive it.
By Raymond E. Feist and William Forstchen
Ocean Salvage tug story.
Modern (fictisous) Dreyfus trial. Jewish / post Holocaste. Dreyfus is falsly accused and the book is partly his biography, and partly a narative. Very Good, hard to put down.
Set in 1999/2000 spy/political story. Story: Someone is trying to create a 1 party state in Russia.
A good start.. This could develop into something good but this is only the very start
Philosophically deep. A little harder to read than many other authors, but well worth the effort.
NON FICTION. A selection of quotes from a variety of sources. Has all the esentials and then a bit more. Covers every thing from Holocauste to Bioethics.
Part of Legendas of the RiftWar, writtin with Steven Stirling. A relativly light and very easy read.
AFTER STUDY 9/10 Read with out study 5/10
Very good book covering many topics related to Nazism and Anti-Semitism.
Amazing. Charactors come to life and their faults (while no simpler) are clearer than our own.
Abridged Version. (Abridged by Oliver Jones)
sequel ro "Talon of the Silver Hawk". A nice relaxing read.
A historical analysis of the journey of an Egyptian Princess to England
Book 11, wheel of time.
Decent story, most charactors are 1 dimentional though.
Sequel to Krondor the Betrayal
The story to the game "Betrayal at Kondor". A "missing" chapter in the Serries. Crit. Glosse sover details too much in an effort to involve as many old charactors as possible.
Mark Twain is a pen name for Samuel Langhorn Clements.
Funny, short, and quirky. A good read.
Op Center book
Spy Novel
Good Sci Fi
some very good moments. Book 6 of the Wheel of Time serries.
Fantasy novel (start of series) recommended by person at Wordsworth.
Fantasy spy story
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
First read in 91. Authors Prefered Ed. 10am 14th to 7:59pm 16 only having 4 hours sleep. Been rating others too high. Re-read 15-18/12/2000 100/100.
Mark Twain is a pen name for Samuel Langhorn Clements.
Story of life on the streets of Sydney
Read prior to starting this list. Another VERY good Jewish Story. Ab. Ghetto uprising.
The Gulf War Crissis. Rec by Warren Lewis.
Very good but while the sub plots and charactors have depth, they are nto AS deep as in magician. The empathy is there but less than it could be.
Story lacking style brilliant.
Funny in an odd sort of way. Book 4 of the disc world serries
Wheek of time presquel.
WWII special operations executive
Short Stories. Endings a bit predictable.
Brilliant. Twist at end Amazing.
100/100 if you have the patience ! Dickens like shakespeare is in a class of his own.
The true story of Ross Perot's "mission imposible". Director of Electronic Data Systems, a US firm with an Iran contract, desided to break 2 of his emplyees out of Jail after they were arrested and imprisioned wrongfully. A TRUE STORY.
Not too technical. (CF ussual) Actually written by Jeff Rovin (sneeky publishing). Plot simple, but well written.
A Confederate Colonel goes to Island at the end of the Civil War for peace and quiet. There he enters the fight of the Irish.
Continues story of "the burning shore".
Set in 2000 which makes it strange. Story line good, but style lacking.
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. A little boring, can't explain why though.
Decent, good charactors... Doesn't have the pull the pull of some other similar stories. Could be because it's the start of a trillogy.
Under 3 hours reading, but still very enjoyable. :-)
As good as brothers by Bernice Rubens
A great book, serrious but very entertaining.
Although it doesn't look like it for the 1st 1/4, the book is a holocauste story, speciffically about human experiments. Raw Horror.
Interesting but hard work to read. Often very like reading through an acadmeic paper (of the more readbale sort I admit)!
Charactors lack usual Depth
Sci-Fi about colonising mars,
Started afternoon of 22 finished 5am on 23. Very Good, but lacking CF Magician.
book two of the Farseer Trilogy
A "power plays" novel. High Tech.
Tom Clancy style novel, but easier to follow. Ab. Second Holocauste
good, definitly the middle of a continuing story though.
Different style. Very indian Jones like. More of a movie synopsis than a book. Has the core but is missing the development.
Re-Read to refresh prior to reading Rise of a Merchant Prince.
Full Title: Tom Clancy's Netforce Explorers Shadow of Honour
continuation of Kane and Able, and the Prodigel daughter
Good start to a new serries
By "Killing off" old cast, Feist setups his newer charactors with as much force as he did for Calis, Pug, Tomas, Nicolas and "Jimmy the Hand". Skill and inspiration shines through revealing what he truly can do. Brilliant! I cried when a char died.
Book3, Liveship Traders set. A much better ending than the Farseer trilogy.
Book1, Liveship Traders set
Very Good courtroom Drama
Sci-Fi / Spy. Americans are tapping local british calls from there base in England. Plausable plot, good pacing, not too long.
Short stories a brilliant! Specially for trail journeys or a short break from work.
Book 5 of the Disc World Serries
Autobiography of MI5's first scientific officer. (Later Assistant Director). Details workings of MI5, MI6 and mentions others eg FBI, ASIO
Douglas Adams's Ideas explanded by his friend Terry Jones. Light & funny.
Vietnam war, airforce story.
Fantasy novel (start of series) recommended by person at Wordsworth. Sequel to Wizards first rule.
Sequel to Alistair MacClean's Force 10 from Navarone.
Brilliant flow
Volume two of "the well of echoes".
Brilliant sence of poetic Justice
(21st Bday present from Sarah.) "To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation"
99.9 = 99+
Very good, though I did see where it was going by the end of book one. Despite all the twists and turns, that's hwere it ended up.
Very intersting but also extreamely badly written.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
Not as good the 2nd time (read 1st in 95)
Fairly to formula. Rather dated in many respects.
17/1 11:50pm to 18/1 4am AND THEN 10am to 12pm. Very touching compares well to Greyfriers Bobby.
Very good detective / sci-fi novel - but what else would you expect from Asimov?
Very powerful esp. Considering p/g length (under 300). Emotionaly Draining.
Book 2 of the disc world serries
Absolutly brilliant. An almost perfect manual to British politics including those of the students union.
relativly quick read, easy to start and stop. :) About a rescue mission through a country at war, to rescue civilians and diamonds
A spy adventure story, but without the depth of research such books usually have. Some things are simply not right.
We written as always.
Book 3 of the Wheel of Time serries.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
Author Recommended by Jeffery Saffer, Counterpoint 97. Extreamely unsetteling. A covert Operation story that's closer to reality than fiction. The 11 Commandment : You shall not get caught.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
looks like a good start but.. Charactors lack the depth they could have. Book 1 of the Wheel of Time serries.
semi-light but compulsive read
A retelling of the biblical story of the proffet Elija.
Looks like the start of a very good serries
Book 5 of the Wheel of Time serries.
Based on Gulf war. A spy is run in Bagdad. Mossad, CIA, SAS.
Short book (3 hours to read), but very powerful. Goes through the life of a man in a review process after he dies. Shows the difference he made to others and others made to him.
2 Newspaper barrons battle it out. Each chapter ends with a new twist in the tale.
Not highly exiting, but very solid. A good set up for the next book in the serries.
A bit like "underseige" (the movie). The hijack of a luxury Cruiser, and the attempt to steal $150 mil of goldbeing transported to Fort Knox . . .
Brilliant ! Good story very well written.
Book 2 of the Wheel of Time serries.
* Diplomatic deceit, * Flesh and blood, * fright wave. "casefiles, Collectors edition". Good quick read, 1 a day.
Fantasy but a light read.
book 3Good final novel, only it looks like there's more to come.
Interesting historicly based novel. Ending a bit of an anti climax. Otherwise would be much more highly rated.
Romance / Jewish History
A good read, but light.
Decent story but a bit shallow
Middle East story of Terrorists and those trying to stop them.
Book 1 of the disc world serries
ok. Borrows a lot from other classic fantasy books. Still seems to have a Sci Fi core waiting to break through.
Islamic terrorism novel before it took off. Fast paced but also greatly detailed and researched.
Re-read. First read after borrowing from Piano teacher. 95 ? 96 ? Spy story about Mossad tracking down terrorists with the help of a British actress.
Book2, Liveship Traders set
A novel about the lead up to the invasion of occupied Europe. - A comic novel. Funny but also very serriouse.
book 2
Part1 (of 2) of "Mordant's Need". Fantasy about kingdoms and magic mirrors.
started on train
book 1. Fantasy novel by an Australian author
* True Story
book 7 of the "Tomorrow" trilligy. Hmm. Predictable in many ways, but still fast paced, and well written. "Crackles" with tention.
Book 8 of the Wheel of Time serries.
A mix of adverture, mystery and Jewish mystercism
Fast paced, an interlectual thriller in a way but also a book with strong charactors and a reflection of university life
high level English
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
Light Reading
Effectivly a collectionof short spy stories
Book 4 of the Wheel of Time serries.
Translation of a spanish novel about a cemetery of forgotten books. Brilliant.
The incorporated blend of history of both church and europe make it interesting.
Nivel about an archiological dig in Israel. Story switches between the dig and the story the atrifacts tell. Ok.. But seems to have become a bit dated.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
historical and a bit dense. But still a good read.
Historical Novel about the bombing of a temple in Atlanta Georgia in 1958. Also about Martin Luther King and Civil rights.
Brilliant as ussual. Started 9pm finnished 5am.
A good start to a new adventure. Good charactors, though some better than others.
Much better. NOW, finally, some meaning to whats been behind it all, and some twists. The serries should be reduced to one volume. It's a decent story but told with WAY to many words and volumes.
Book 2 of a requerium for homosepians (The broken god series)
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
A novel about feminism, writing and life in general. Deep and powerful but often sad.
True Holocauste story. Rec by Warren Lewis.
America plans a quiet take over of Britain. The SIS (MI6) try to stop it.
Thecnically wrong in placed. Eg uses "un-encrypt" rather then decrypt. (This is annoying).
Another George Smiley story
Short stories. His novels are much better than this collection of short stories.
More power than the Talismon of troy. Still very heavy in the research, but a good read.
A very funny war story about a bunch of actors in the british army that get stranded the wrong side of the front line.
Hard book to read, heavy sci-fi with a touch of fantasy
Subtitled "The Voyage of the St. Louis." Co Auther Max Witts. TRUE HOLOCAUSTE STORY. Touching with excelent attention to detail.
Book 3 of a requerium for homosepians (The broken god series)
ab. Obsesion, Depresion and love. Also Med/Phyc 's birth. Based on facts. Involves Nietzesch (a philosopher) Breuer (a top Jewish Doctor) and a young Freud (the father of physcology)
Very short for a fantasy novel, but compact rather then just shallow.
Quite good though depth is somewhat spoilt as humour is attempted in stead.
read on train
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
Fantasy novel (start of series) recommended by person at Wordsworth.
Not as good as Debt of Honour but close ! Compulsive Reading
Book 6 of the Disc World Serries
Also very good (as per Complete Yes Minister). A good laugh, but not quite as brilliant as the original politically. Still great though!