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The Grace Year
The New Voices of Science Fiction
Progress:
13%
Engineering Animals: How Life Works
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125/314pages
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Conservation of Shadows
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22%
Le premier jour
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180/496pages
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
Manifold: Time
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The Long War
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Angelmaker
Although the book started off okay in an off-kilter way, it ended up sinking below my original rather low expectations. It tries to be funny but mostly it falls flat. It's more sigh-worthy than silly. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was predictable but it was largely unsurprising.
An other way to summarize the book:
-Overly-romanticized gangsters? Check.
-Entirely ridiculous villain? Check. (He even has a moustache.)
-Characters as interesting as wooden planks? Check.
-Too much repetitive summarizing? Check.
