Tag Archives: fiction

The Truth of It

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Tietsu

I don’t have hobbies, I have loathings. Pieces of myself I chew on when no one’s looking. Ideas, failures, habits, all bitter, all nursed against the pressure of my tongue. I don’t kill them, I can’t. I tried. Tried nailing … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Tietsu

This book should have been easy. I say this with hindsight, with the whole of the apocalyptic genre between myself and it. It should have been easy to follow the last man. It’s episodic, almost self-written. Lonely, thrilling, philosophical, introspective, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Tietsu

The Martian Chronicles is a series of short stories and vignettes following humanity’s hypothetical exploration and eventual colonization of Mars. It’s an interesting concept written by one of the strongest sci-fi writer’s of the 20th century. Problem is, it’s less … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Tietsu

I don’t really have a roadmap when it comes to the books I read, it comes largely down to availability and perhaps more honestly, whimsy. The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of the wonderful gems that such a … Continue reading →

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Book Non-Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Tietsu

Step #1: Make a first person narrator that complains about his dystopian society and how much its inequality pisses him off. Step #2: Introduce stilted conversation where narrator’s wife tells him he needs to fight the proverbial machine and people … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Tietsu

I have a feeling that nothing Valente ever publishes will be what one would term as ‘bad’. Her grasp of language is too strong, it’s poetry too perfect. Evocative while rarely trending towards purple, she captures even the most basic … Continue reading →

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A Problem with Nonfiction

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Tietsu

I can’t think. I’ve tried. I really have. Hour after hour passes like a string of sand through an hourglass and all I have is 2000 useless, uninteresting words that I just don’t care about. The question is why? Why … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Skin Deep (Legion #2) by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Tietsu

I had my problems with the first Legion story. It was clunky, unsure of itself and the rules of its own universe. These pains combined with an ending that seemed slashed together out of some abject fear of being written … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Tietsu

Erin Morgenstern has created something lovely here. A little loose, but then most first books are, and life itself is a pretty loose thing, so I’m hard pressed to dress it down too much for not being some tightly scripted … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Tietsu

I had no preconception going into it as it was recommended to me by a lovely woman who encouraged me to read it while her husband shook his head in stark disinterest. That was six months ago. Then I stumbled … Continue reading →

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