Book Ratings

Book ratings explained:

* I didn't like it | ** It was OK | *** I liked it | **** I really liked it | ***** I loved it

Friday, May 01, 2020

DocileDocile by K.M. Szpara
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Quit at 25% read. I'm not sufficiently interested in male on male sex or self indulgent brutality every couple of pages to continue reading this. I don't know if the story that is hinted at actually comes to fruition later in the book, but there is nothing going on at this point in the story to keep me going.

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The True Bastards (The Lot Lands, #2)The True Bastards by Jonathan French
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Monday, January 20, 2020

The Bard's Blade (The Sorcerer's Song, #1)The Bard's Blade by Brian D. Anderson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book from the publisher for review.

The book is obviously intended for a younger audience which is not a bad thing in and of itself. Some of my favorite reads the last few years were intended for a juvenile audience. This one, however, did nothing much in the 162 pages I managed to finish before deciding life was too short to keep reading something that just didn't appeal to me.

Monday, December 02, 2019

The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop ComputerThe Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer by Meryle Secrest
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book from the publisher for review.

This book was basically a hodgepodge history of the Olivetti family: what they manufactured, where they had offices, who lived where and with whom, who they liked, what their politics were, and so forth. As a dynastic history, it was barely adequate. As a book about the history of desktop computers, it was a failure. If there was a conspiracy, I must have skipped over it because I don't remember reading about one.