The Glister

The Glister: A Novel by John Burnside


My rating: 2 of 5 stars
[books: The Glister] starts out as a moderately interesting portrait of a teenager growing up in a left-behind, industrial wasteland. The book grows increasingly more improbably right up through the clumsy climax at the end. It is too bad John Burnside felt a need to force a silly, not-at-all-thrilling, thriller-style mystery story into what had the potential to be an interesting exploration of what happens when the company abandons the company-town to its fate.

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The Art of War

The Art of War by Sun Tzu by Sun Tzu


My rating: 2 of 5 stars
The main text of The Art of War was somewhat interesting especially in light of its age, but I found Giles's commentary distracting and difficult to follow. I will concede that the problem might lie more in the layout of the free Kindle ebook edition than in the commentary itself. Maybe at some point I'll give it another try.

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Indigo Awakening

Indigo Awakening: A Doctor's Memoir of Forging an Authentic Life in a Turbulent World by Janine Talty


My rating: 1 of 5 stars
By the time I was two pages into Indigo Awakening I knew I'd made a huge mistake. I can't quite figure out what possessed me to start this book in the first place, but I sure stopped it fast. Janine Talty lost me from the get-go, but I knew I wasn't even going to try when she started talking about the Galactic Center, the Source, etc. Never mind the child who cast his eyes into an orange which he sent to the classroom next door and was able to read what was written on the blackboard there. And no, you won't find it in the sci-fi section. It purports to be non-fiction. Utter garbage! Permanently deleted from my Kindle.

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