Book Reviews
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Wednesday 14 December, 2005
A friend of mine can read at incredible speeds. It's amazing - he pointed out to me just recently that he had read three books during the week in which he had been on holiday, which I reckon is r... Read More...No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Thursday 8 December, 2005
Fans of modern crime-thriller novels have never had it so good - James Patterson, Dan Brown and now Harlan Coben have all contributed to something of a resurgence for the genre in recent times. I've e... Read More...Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Friday 2 December, 2005
In a remarkably short period of time, Dan Brown has emerged as one of the biggest and most-promising authors in the modern popular-fiction bracket. His Christian-bating best-seller The Da Vinci Code r... Read More...The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Tuesday 22 November, 2005
I'm not a religious person, but neither am I the type to seek out a book such as The Da Vinci Code simply on the grounds of excited murmurings, that claim it 'denounces Christianity' and does other su... Read More...Black House - Stephen King, Peter Straub
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Wednesday 19 October, 2005
Way back in 1984, the two giants of the fictional-horror genre that are Stephen King and Peter Straub teamed up to write a unique and spellbinding fantasy novel named The Talisman. The two men combine... Read More...The Talisman - Stephen King, Peter Straub
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Monday 12 September, 2005
It is common-place in the music-industry to see collaborations - artists and producers will often come together, work to each others strengths and develop a song that they perhaps couldn't have achiev... Read More...Pet Sematary - Stephen King
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Friday 17 June, 2005
Considering that, in recent years at least, Stephen King has become increasingly hit-and-miss in delivering his horror classics, the late eighties proved to be something of a purple-patch for the vete... Read More...The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Thursday 31 March, 2005
A short time ago, I managed to prise myself away from the PlayStation for just long enough to start reading The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. Unquestionably a strange name for a book;... Read More...Quake - Richard Laymon
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Sunday 8 August, 2004
I must say I was rather disappointed with Richard Laymon's 'After Midnight', the first of his books I had read. Inspite of it's initial promise boasted by the praise on it's cover and an energetic ope... Read More...The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Wednesday 4 August, 2004
"There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it," claims the Time Traveller ('for so it will be convenient to speak of him').... Read More...A Darkness At Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist
A Darkness At Sethanon happily avoids the pitfall that seems to trip the last leg of many potentially-great trilogies from time to time, as it continues the Riftwar Saga's fine line in quality di...
'48 - James Herbert
James Herbert has been writing horror fiction for many years now, with such classics as "The Rats" and "Haunted" to name just a couple, these books have pushed him to the forefront of British horro...
Silverthorn - Raymond E. Feist
Magician was a full-blooded fantasy affair if ever there was one. Though it displayed its traditional, swords 'n' sorcery brand of fantasy with pride, it clearly didn't do things by halves; over th...
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