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I appreciate your review Autumnal. I bounced off the first volume, maybe because the "ending" as it was wasn't very satisfying? I think...

The Long Earth, The Long War, The Long Mars, The Long Utopia, and The Long Cosmos, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. This is in...

5 years (82-87) between The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three; 4 years (1991) from that to The Waste Lands; 6 years (1997) between...

The one time I hurled a book across the room was quite involuntary. I was a teenager, reading a scary novel in bed. My bed was...

It's...a certain kind of literature. From what little I know of his other work, it might be of a kind. And my reaction certainly said...

Since it came up, here’s Thomas Ligotti’s prose poem “Autumnal”:

Ok wow, such a strong reaction REALLY makes me curious!

I read it like 10-13 years ago. Literally hurled it across the room upon finishing it. Ranted about it. And it's been lodged in my brain...

Post-apocalyptic tales come in (at least) two flavors: 1. The worst began and will continue indefinitely, maybe forever, and only the...

The Postman was one of the very few books I reread several times as a teenager - generally I didn't ever reread a book (as I get older...

I had a similar reaction to Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I've read "The Compound" by Aisling Rawle, a debut novel about a reality show in a miserable, doomed world - so our real world? Or near...

Started the Murderbot stories to have a little break from Dungeon Crawler Carl ... I might have read Book 4 in a single day. Series...

I finished "Empire of Blue Water" which was recommended by @Whizbang Dustyboots . What an excellent book. If you have any interest in...

Just read The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis, which very readably tears the stuffing out of our common myths about genius (both scientific...