Reviews

Staff Review Mar 29, 2013

Psychologist Chris Kelvin, played by George Clooney, arrives on a spaceship near the planet Solaris to investigate why the crew is suffering. Kelvin has a vivid dream of his deceased wife his first night on the ship and then discovers her lying next to him after wakening.

Staff Review Mar 27, 2013

At the end of the Victorian period, Edward Moon is a stage magician and detective whose fame is fading away. Trying to restore his former glory, he and his assistant, the Somnambulist (fancy name for sleepwalker), get caught in a twisted, nightmarish mystery where nothing is quite what it seems.

Staff Review Mar 26, 2013

With The City & the City, China Miéville has created a fascinating, exciting story that takes a premise that could have come straight from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges and turns it into the kind of hardboiled detective story Borges would have loved.

Staff Review Mar 25, 2013

It’s interesting to me how choices I made as a child continue to shape my perceptions to this very day. Some examples include: Han Solo is cooler than Luke Skywalker, John Lennon is cooler than Paul McCartney, and cheese pizza is a waste of time. But what has astonished me lately is that some of my childhood prejudices have changed.

Staff Review Mar 22, 2013

The author has been compared to Marjorie Rawlings and other famous Southern writers who provide insight into Southern culture.  This interesting saga delves into the culture of a backwater town in northern Florida where the residents - an inbred mix of whites, American Indians and African Americans - have secrets, loyalties and codes known only to them.