July 1, 2007

wfzimmerman's review: "I have to decide how many Crichtons I want in my collection. THE ANDROMEDIA STRAIN, for sure -- but what else? I tend to enjoy author biographies that were not bestseller's -- I loved Michener's, for example. This might be a keeper."
Ballantine Books (1989), Paperback

wfzimmerman's review: "With the benefit of 35 years of HMOs, stem cell research, cloning, and information technology, this title looks more prescient than ever."
Bantam (1972), Paperback

wfzimmerman's review: "Davvidson was born in 1922, so he may not have very many more novels in him. Both this and [[THE ROSE OF TIBET]] were outstanding. I need to read his ouevre and decide what to keep."
St Martins Mass Market Paper (1995), Paperback, 436 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "Written from the POV of the beautiful Vesper Lynn, which has to stand out as one of the worst authorial experiments of all time -- this book might have some value as the nucleus of a collection of Bad Ideas!"
Signet Books (1962), Mass Market Paperback

Review of: Persepolis : the story of a childhood

A very moving account of a young woman's growing up in Revolutionary Iran.

Review of: Fool's war by Zettel, Sarah

This was an excellent SF novel, but, unfortunately, Zettel is yet another promising SF writer lost to the bigger dollars of the fantasy market.

Review of: The Ringworld throne by Niven, Larry

Almost as soon as I started re-reading this book I remembered why I didn't particularly care for it. Early in the book there is a prolonged excursion into the lives of the unpronounceably long-named Ringworld dwellers, who are very hard to identify with compared to Louis Wu and crew.

wfzimmerman's review: "These Putnam Dick Francis books have extremely nice paper! A thick brilliant white that has stood the test of time very well."
Putnam Adult (1996), Hardcover, 322 pages
tags: first edition

wfzimmerman's review: "The best of the best. My favorite scene is Wolfe telling Goodwin "I am a B.""
Bantam, (1975), Paperback
tags: Nero Wolfe