James Kark

I liked Malzberg's short stories, but I wanted a little more length to the whole work. It was a little less than 200pp.. I wanted more, but they were very good Sci Fi stories, indeed. I suggest you buy it or borrow it...read it! Malzberg is an excellent Sci Fi author for one's reading pleasure. if you like Sci Fi and good prose.

This is one of my favorite books from when I was a child. Oupa, in Afrikanns, Grandfather, my Oupa got me this book when I was a boy. I love it and remember it well. What happened to it I don't know? I think a lot of children may enjoy this one, I sure did. I can only suggest.

I've been to Mexico, and am a Gringo. This book is about Ambrose Bierce, an American author. 100 years ago or so, Bierce went into Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. He killed a prison guard. Bierce was in prison for murder. Bierce wrote something, a parody called "The Devil's Dictionary". In the novel, Bierce meets up with Pancho Villa. I won't too much away, and as a Gringo he suffers from diarrhea in Mexico. Gringo's get diarrhea there in Mexico because there is a germ called E. Coli in the water. The Mexicans are used to E. Coli. We are not. In America, we treat the water for E. Coli. There is a famous line in this book like "To be a Gringo in Mexico: Ah, is to be euthanized." It is a better book in Spanish. This book is especially good for an American because it is about the Mexican perspective of us there. It is also better in Spanish, Fuentes great novel. Carlos Fuentes was a Mexican.

It was a little slow at first, but by the end of the novel I felt I had read a really good crime novel. It is a Japanese crime novel. It involves a detective trying to solve who is a cop killer. "The Shinjuku Shark", I believe is the nickname of the Detective, a homicide Detective, that the series of books or novels features. This one was really good. I suggest if you like mystery or crime novels try it. It's very Japanese in a way, which if asked I wouldn't be able to say exactly what that is, but it has a feeling of being very Japanese indeed. It was really good to read. I believe Shinjuku is also a neighborhood within Tokyo, and it may be a little "seedy". By "seedy" I mean crime like drugs and prostitution, as well as some violent crime.

A model for a good Cyberpunk style novel. It's Sci Fi. It does have a lot of action, but a lot of pure Sci Fi, too. Especially regarding memory. It is sort of a mind trip in certain parts of the novel. It is an interesting read. It starts off with a man who is a hit man for a drug cartel in Macau. The rest is him basically attempting to break free from that life. To be with his family. T.R. Napper, the author, writes about Asia well, especially the Chinese for a guy from Australia. His main character is Australian. A German.

It was a good novel. Probably the best Science Fiction novel of 2024, according to Good Reads. I enjoyed it. It only took two days to read once I got into it, but it was interesting. In short, it is about a conquering and enslaving Alien race coming to a planet with Humans on it. I don't want to have spoilers in my reviews, butt read James S.A. Corey's novel. It's worthwhile, I thought.

James Ellroy, the great American English crime writer, loves this book. I did too. The tempo is strange, and vaguely Japanese, and I loved it. The tempo of the writing is probably partly the result of the translator, though it has something to do with Japan and its culture, also. The Japanese language is different from our English, for instance. Things are lost in translation. It's a crime thriller. It has violence, sex, and murder. I hope that isn't a spoiler? It's a psychological thriller and murder mystery crime novel, all-in-one. I suggest you read it. Read it cover-to-cover. I bet you'll love it. I was never really sure what was going to happen, until the very end, the denouement , as it were, concluded it. I suggest you read this is you value James Ellroy's opinion. Mine might be right, it's in agreement with crime writer James Ellroy.

Some years ago I read a great deal of "The Buried Mirror" in English by Carlos Fuentes. It was very good. I recently ordered it in Spanish and hope to get a better understanding of this book and author, and the history in the native tongue as information is lost in translation. I can read Spanish pretty well. This is a good book, I suggest it as a good primer in Mexican and Latin American history, I think. It was a long time ago that I read it, some of it in English. Thanks. Hope this was helpful. Maybe, I will update this review after I read the book in Spanish.

This story of two girls in Montgomery County, Maryland being kidnapped and, a true story, is hard to stomach, and it is a difficult and sad one, but true. It isn't really a happy story. I thought it was a "good read". I don't want to spoil anything for you, if you will, but read it, it is a warning to watch out for one's children and daughters especially. There are real predators. This was sort of a personal event as I still go to Wheaton, Maryland, and I did as a boy, and Four Corners by Blair High School. I may have crossed paths with this predator, he was never caught, whereas his victims have never been found.

I thought "Musashi" was the most excellent novel. It introduced many Japanese philosophical ideas and basic religious ideas, as well as telling the story of the famous Musashi of Japan, a tale of a Samurai. I suggest you read it cover to cover, 970pp.. It was printed with small letters on South Korean paper which is intimidating, but I did, and it was worth it. You can too. Thanks.