Content here is by:
Michael Still
mikal@stillhq.com

All my Open Source projects
Extracted view of CVS
Home
Site map

See recent comments. RSS feed of all comments. Raw dump of all comments for research purposes.

ImageMagick book

MythTV book

These posts mostly relate to books I am reading or series I am collecting to read in order (I tend to collect the series and then read it in one block). You can see a see a list of the books I am currently seeking, as well as a list of all the books I've bothered to catalog if you're interested.


Tue, 02 Dec 2008


Death Bringer




    ISBN: 0747400016
    LibraryThing
    		I feel sorry for Jake Olsen. It must be hard having the ensign-in-the-red-shirt role. This book is as good as the rest of the series, and the First Family truly are bastards. I really liked this one.

    Tags for this post: book(S) Patrick_Tilley(S)


posted at: 21:22 | path: /book/Patrick_Tilley | permanent link to this entry


Sat, 29 Nov 2008


Blood River




    ISBN: 0747400008
    LibraryThing
    		This is the fourth book in the Amtrak Wars series. Its pretty good, about the same level of writing as Cloud Warrior and Iron Master, which I guess means it was better than First Family (which was mostly a connector between the first and third books in the series). In this book we learn that the first family are even more nasty than previously disclosed, and that Cadillac is possibly the most annoying person on the planet.

    This book must not have been very popular in the US, because I've never seen it for sale in the US, but its reasonably common in Australia. That's a shame because the copy I have is about to fall apart, which means I'll have to wait until next time I am back home to try and find a replacement copy.

    Overall this book was quite readable, and I enjoyed it.

    Tags for this post: book(S) Patrick_Tilley(S)


posted at: 16:17 | path: /book/Patrick_Tilley | permanent link to this entry


Tue, 07 Oct 2008


Iron Master




    ISBN: 0671653385
    LibraryThing
    		This is the third book in the Amtrak Wars series. I think this is a better book than First Family, which suffered from not having much plot development. This book on the other hand moves the plot along, whilst being interesting. You also get to learn more about the Iron Masters, as well as how dodgy the First Family is. A good read.

    Tags for this post: book(S) Patrick_Tilley(S)


posted at: 20:08 | path: /book/Patrick_Tilley | permanent link to this entry


Mon, 25 Aug 2008


First Family




    ISBN: 0671655671
    LibraryThing
    		I finished this book on the bus into work this morning (I had a pretty distracted weekend, and didn't get much reading done). This is the second book in the Amtrak Wars series, and takes place immediately after Cloud Warrior. The book feels like it is only half a book -- there is plot development such as learning more about Roz, meeting the First Family, and the Iron Masters, but there isn't much action. Basically I look back on the book and wonder what happened in it -- it would have been better to combine this with the next book and have a complete story in one.

    Tags for this post: book(S) Patrick_Tilley(S)


posted at: 09:59 | path: /book/Patrick_Tilley | permanent link to this entry


Mon, 18 Aug 2008


Cloud Warrior




    ISBN: 0671559729
    LibraryThing
    		I read this post-nuclear holocaust book as a kid and liked it, so I thought I'd give it a try again. Given most second hand science fiction books are $2, the barrier to entry is admittedly quite low as well. This book revolves around two groups -- the Amtrak Federation (a military society formed from survivors of those who crewed MX missile trains, a real system of roaming trains carrying nuclear missiles from the late 1980s and early 1990s -- the idea was that something which moved was harder for the Russians to find) and the "Mutes" (the civilan survivors of the holocaust, who are now mutated by radiation). Its a good book, although very different from the Asimov I've been reading recently. That's a good thing, because I think I need a bit of an Asimov break to be honest.

    Tags for this post: book(S) Patrick_Tilley(S)


posted at: 17:47 | path: /book/Patrick_Tilley | permanent link to this entry
Archives: 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Feeds for the entire site:
RSS feed | RSS 2.0 feed
RSS feed without microblogging
RSS feed of recent comments
Feeds for just this post or category:
RSS feed | RSS 2.0 feed | RSS feed without microblogging


Site design by the rather capable Rhys. This page generated on camaro at Thu Dec 4 00:00:30 2008.