Tips for Time Travelers by Peter Cochrane My rating: 3 of 5 stars Peter Cochrane was the head of the research labs at British Telecommunications, and this book is a series of short essays on his ideas about future technologies. … Continue reading
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the second of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, and it is not quite as good as the first one. It is quite easy to go … Continue reading
The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout My rating: 5 of 5 stars Rex Stout created two of the great characters in the genre of mystery, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Nero Wolfe is fat (one-seventh of a ton!), mostly immovable, … Continue reading
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars I imagine most people are familiar with this work, either from reading the original novel or from the recent film series. This book was written as a children’s fantasy … Continue reading
Friday by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is perfectly enjoyable, but neither his best nor his worst. As he tended to do later in life, this novel ties back to earlier work of his. Kettle … Continue reading
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is probably the best known of all Heinlein’s novels as it reached an audience far beyond the science fiction fans who normally picked up … Continue reading
Living the RV Life: Your Ultimate Guide to Life on the Road by Marc Bennett My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have seen some reviews that slammed this book for not being the last word on RVing, but in … Continue reading
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari My rating: 4 of 5 stars Harari is an historian, which is the lens he uses here to think about the future. What he attempts to do is to … Continue reading
Witch World by Andre Norton My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first in the classic Andre Norton Fantasy series, and it sets up the series pretty well. Simon Tregarth is a soldier who got into trouble with … Continue reading
Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Robert Goldsborough My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Robert Goldsborough books continuing the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout are undoubtedly controversial among fans of Wolfe, … Continue reading
