Dave

Tremendous. Intelligent, fantastical yet believable sci-fi. Read in a couple of sessions.

This is an enjoyable read of Britain (specifically Birmingham) in the 1970s through teenagers' eyes. From first love, strikes, riots, racism, class, terrorism, affairs, and music we get to relive those terrible times. It's probably a five-star book, but the last chapter... jeez, it's like 50 pages of stream of consciousness, one single run-on sentence, and it is hard work.

Thoroughly miserable man does nothing with his life and ruins those of others around him by not fulfilling his.

It's an easy, linear read though so that's in its favour. If anything this is a warning to all of us. Embrace life, enjoy it, and do good things.

Tedious

Long, slow, and uninvolving..As ever, Adrian's concepts are amazing, but this time let down by too may characters I had no interest in. This took forever to read and I'm glad it's over.

A dystopian novel set in the near future where a lunatic Musk type seeks to control women and their purchasing behaviour through a huge range of super-addictive sex toys. Yes, it sounds mental and mostly is.

It romps along in typical Palahniuk style, and there's a twist at the end as usual. Read it in a few days.

I liked it, although it could have been better as it got stuck a lot of the time in explaining the sex very scientifically and when it wasn't scientific in description, it dropped into mad mysticism.