[This review was posted 6/22/2006 at wotmania.com. Wotmania closed down at the end of August 2009, and most of the members have since migrated to RAFO. I’m moving the review here because, being normally narcissistic, I do not want to lose it. Also, I am currently somewhat sick, so this has not been edited. I’m sorry: [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘review’
November 4, 2009
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
(Shalini hates the inverted commas, it seems, and so: This review was posted 1/24/2006 at wotmania.com. Wotmania closed down at the end of August 2009, and most of the members have since migrated to RAFO. I’m moving the review here because, being normally narcissistic, I do not want to lose it. Also, I am currently [...]
November 2, 2009
Something Wicked This Way Comes; The Illustrated Man – by Ray Bradbury
(This is an amalgamation of two “reviews” originally posted 6/20/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited here and there, for grammar and cohesion. But still, they are blunt and short and somewhat uneloquent. Blame Youth!)
In some [...]
November 1, 2009
The Dark Mirror by Juliet Marillier
(This “review” was originally posted 6/20/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has not been edited, since I cannot remember the novel in question. Seriously. The cover [I read the blue twilight edition) is lovely, and that is all [...]
October 31, 2009
The Famished Road, by Ben Okri
(This “review” was originally posted 6/22/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for spelling and grammar. It has NOT been edited for style, and it is blunt and tactless and appallingly unfluid. I [...]
October 30, 2009
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
(This “review” was originally posted 6/22/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for spelling and grammar. It has NOT been edited for style, and it is blunt and tactless and appallingly unfluid. I [...]
October 30, 2009
Hart’s Hope by Orson Scott Card
(This “review” was originally posted 2/28/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for some coherency, spelling and grammar. It is blunt and tactless and appallingly unfluid. I apologise.)
At Orson Scott Card’s website: [...]
October 28, 2009
The Tamír Triad, by Lynn Flewelling
(This “review” was originally posted 8/29/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found atRAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for some coherency, spelling and grammar. It has been edited a VERY LITTLE for style, and it is blunt and tactless [...]
October 27, 2009
The Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling
(This “review” was originally posted 4/11/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for some coherency, spelling and grammar. It has NOT been edited for style, and it is blunt and tactless and [...]
October 25, 2009
Destiny’s Children by Stephen Baxter
(This “review” was originally posted 11/17/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for spelling and grammar. It has NOT been edited for style, and it is blunt and tactless and appallingly unfluid. [...]