Books currently on Jim's bookshelf

Here's a list of some of the books on my bookshelf. I rate books from 1 to 5. There are not many books that I buy that I don't like. I have years of experience selecting them.

Some of the book's titles are hyperlinks that link to generally three paragraph reviews on the book. Note that the review will open in a new window if you click the link.

You can also see what I'm currently reading via Goodreads, and due to this I'm not updating this page as much as I should. I'll get around to doing it shortly, I promise.

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Adieu, mon cher vieux. Relis et rebûche ton conte. Laisse-le reposer et reprends-le, les livres ne se font pas comme les enfants, mais comme les pyramides, avec un dessin prémédité, et en apportant des grands blocs l´un par-dessus l´autre, à force de reins, de temps et de sueur, et ça ne sert à rien! et ça reste dans le désert! mais en le dominant prodigieusement. Les chacals pissent au bas et les bourgeois montent dessus, etc.; continue la comparaison.
-- Gustave Flaubert

Author	Title	Jim's Rating
Abel, Kenneth	Bait	3 ½
Adams, Richard	Watership Down	4 ½
Adams, Richard	Tales From Watership Down	3 ½
Adams, Richard	The Plague Dogs	3 ½
Aleas, Richard	Little Girl Lost	3
Ambrose, David	Superstition	3
Anderson, Kent	Night Dogs	4
Anderson, Kent	Sympathy for the Devil	4
Anderson, Poul	The Boat of a Million Years	4
Anderson, Poul	Starfarers	4
Anzetti, Toni	Typhon's Children	4

Banks, Iain	A Song of Stone	3 ½
Banks, Iain	Walking on Glass	3
Banks, Iain	The Business	4
Banks, Iain	Espedair Street	4 ½
Banks, Iain	Canal Dreams	4
Banks, Iain	Dead Air	3
Banks, Iain	The Wasp Factory	4
Banks, Iain M.	Use of Weapons	4 ½
Banks, Iain M.	The Player of Games	4
Banks, Iain M.	Excession	5
Banks, Iain M.	Feersum Endjinn	3 ½
Banks, Iain M.	Against a Dark Background	5
Banks, Iain M.	The State of the Art	4
Banks, Iain M.	Consider Phlebas	4 ½
Banks, Iain M.	Inversions	3 ½
Banks, Iain M.	Look to Windward	4
Banks, Iain M.	Matter	3 ½
Barker, Clive	The Thief of Always	4
Barker, Clive	The Great and Secret Show	4
Barker, Clive	Everville	4
Barnes, John	Orbital Resonance	3 ½
Barnes, John	Earth Made of Glass	3
Barnes, John	Kaleidoscope Century	3 ½
Barnes, John	A Million Open Doors	4
Barnes, John	Candle	4
Barnes, John	The Merchants of Souls	3 ½
Baxter, Stephen	Titan	3 ½
Baxter, Stephen	Ring	4
Baxter, Stephen	Manifold: Time	4
Baxter, Stephen	Manifold: Space	4
Baxter, Stephen	Voyage	4
Bear, Greg	The Infinity Concerto	4
Bear, Greg	The Serpent Mage	4
Benchley, Peter	The Island	3
Benford, Gregory	Timescape	4
Benford, Gregory	Artifact	3
Benford, Gregory	Jupiter Project	3
Benford, Gregory	The Martian Race	3
Benoit, Charles	Relative Danger	4
Bester, Alfred	The Stars My Destination	4
Bester, Alfred	The Computer Connection	3 ½
Bond, Larry	Dangerous Ground	3 ½
Bova, Ben	Colony	3 ½
Bradbury, Ray	Something Wicked This Way Comes	4
Brin, David	The Postman	4
Bronson, Po	Bombardiers	4

Cahill, Tim	Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered	4
Caldwell I. & Thomason D.	The Rule of Four	4
Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Shadow	4 ½
Card, Orson Scott	Lost Boys	4
Card, Orson Scott	Shadow of the Hegemon	4
Card, Orson Scott	Shadow Puppets	3 ½
Carr, Caleb	The Alienist	4 ½
Carr, Caleb	The Angel of Darkness	4
Charrière, Henri	Papillon	4
Child, Lee	Tripwire	3
Child, Lee	Die Trying	3
Child, Lee	Killing Floor	3
Child, Lee	The Visitor	3
Clarke, Arthur C.	The Fountains of Paradise	4
Clavell, James	Shogun	4
Clegg, Douglas	The Halloween Man	2 ½
Cobb, James H.	Sea Strike	3 ½
Coben, Harlen	Fade Away	3 ½
Coben, Harlen	No Second Chance	3 ½
Connelly, Michael	Blood Work	4
Cook, Thomas H.	Breakheart Pass	3 ½
Coonts, Stephen	Fortunes of War	3 ½
Courtenay, Bryce	The Power Of One	4 ½
Cruz Smith, Martin	Havana Bay	3 ½

Daniel, Tony	Metaplanetary	3 ½
Deaver, Jeffery	The Coffin Dancer	4
Deaver, Jeffery	Praying for Sleep	4
Deaver, Jeffery	The Vanished Man	4
DeMille, Nelson	Plum Island	3 ½
DeMille, Nelson	The Lion's Game	3 ½
DeMille, Nelson	Up Country	4
DeMille, Nelson	Night Fall	4
Deutermann, P.T.	The Cat Dancers	4
Dias, Dexter	False Witness	3 ½
Dick, Philip K.	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep	4
Dobyns, Stephen	The Church of Dead Girls	5
Dobyns, Stephen	Boy in the Water	4
Duncan, Robert L.	The Serpent's Mark	3 ½

Eco, Umberto	The Name of the Rose	4
Eisler, Barry	Rain Fall	3
Eisler, Barry	Hard Rain	3
Eisler, Barry	Rain Storm	3 ½
Eisler, Barry	Killing Rain	3 ½
Ellison, Ralph	Invisible Man	4

Feist, Raymond E.	Magician	3 ½
Finder, Joseph	Paranoia	3
Finney, Jack	Time and Again	4
Fitzhugh, Bill	Pest Control	4
Forbes, Esther	Johnny Tremain	4
Forester, C.S.	The Gun	4
Forward, Robert L.	Camelot 30K	4
Frost, Mark	The List of 7	3 ½

Gaarder, Jostein	The Solitaire Mystery	4
Gaddis, Thomas E.	Birdman of Alcatraz	3 ½
Gardner, James Alan	Vigilant	3 ½
Gardner, James Alan	Expendable	4
Gardner, James Alan	Trapped	3
Gardner, James Alan	Radiant	4
Gemmell, David	Legend	3 ½
Gemmell, David	The King Beyond The Gate	3 ½
Gibson, William	Neuromancer	4
Gilstrap, John	Nathan's Run	4
Gischler, Victor	Gun Monkeys	3 ½
Gischler, Victor	Suicide Squeeze	3 ½
Godey, John	The Taking of Pelham 123	4
Golden, Christopher	Strangewood	2 ½
Gould, Steven	Jumper	4 ½
Gould, Steven	Blind Waves	3 ½
Graziunas, Diana & Starlin, Jim	Thinning the Predators	4
Grisham, John	A Painted House	4

Haddawy, Husain (translator)	The Arabian Nights	4 ½
Hiaasen, Carl	Skin Tight	3 ½
Hiaasen, Carl	Skinny Dip	4
Haddon, Mark	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	Glory Road	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	4 ½
Heinlein, Robert A.	Between Planets	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	Double Star	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	Podkayne of Mars	4 ½
Heinlein, Robert A.	The Menace from Earth	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	Sixth Column	3 ½
Heinlein, Robert A.	The Door into Summer	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	Starbeast	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	Orphans of the Sky	3 ½
Heinlein, Robert A.	For Us, The Living	3
Heinlein, Robert A.	Time Enough for Love	4 ½
Heinlein, Robert A.	Stranger in a Strange Land	5
Heinlein, Robert A.	The Rolling Stones	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	Citizen of the Galaxy	4
Heinlein, Robert A.	Starman Jones	4
Helprin, Mark	A Soldier of the Great War	4 ½
Hemingway, Ernest	For Whom The Bell Tolls	4 ½
Herbert, Frank	Dune	5
Herbert, Frank	Dune Messiah	3 ½
Herbert, Frank	Children of Dune	4
Herbert, Frank	The White Plague	4
Herbert, James	Creed	3 ½
Hickam, Homer H.	Rocket Boys	4 ½
Hunt, David	Trick of Light	4
Hunt, David	The Magician's Tale	4 ½
Hunter, Stephen	The Master Sniper	3 ½
Hunter, Stephen	Hot Springs	4
Hunter, Stephen	Time to Hunt	3

            Ing, Dean
            Spooker
            3 ½
          

James, M. R.	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary	4
Joyce, Graham	Dreamside	3 ½
Joyce, Graham	The Tooth Fairy	4
Joyce, Graham	Requiem	4
Joyce, Graham	Dark Sister	4

Kellerman, Jonathan	Billy Straight	4
Kellerman, Jonathan	Twisted	3 ½
Kellerman, Jonathan	Over The Edge	4
Killough, Lee	Bloodwalk	3 ½
Killough, Lee	Blood Games	3
King, Stephen	The Stand	4
King, Stephen	Dreamcatcher	3 ½
King, Stephen	The Waste Lands	3 ½
King, Stephen	Wizard and Glass	4
King, Stephen	Cycle of the Werewolf	4
King, Stephen	Bag of Bones	3 ½
King, Stephen	The Drawing of the Three	3
King, Stephen	The Gunslinger	2
King, Stephen	It	4
King, Stephen	Carrie	3 ½
King, Stephen	The Green Mile	4
King, Stephen and Straub, Peter	Black House	4
Koontz, Dean	Fear Nothing	3 ½
Koontz, Dean	Seize the Night	3
Krakauer, John	Into Thin Air	4

Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird	5
LeGuin, Ursula K.	The Left Hand of Darkness	4 ½
LeGuin, Ursula K.	Tehanu	3 ½
LeGuin, Ursula K.	Tales From Earthsea	3 ½
LeGuin, Ursula K.	The Other Wind	3 ½
Lehane, Dennis	Darkness, Take My Hand	5
Lehane, Dennis	Sacred	4
Lehane, Dennis	Gone, Baby, Gone	4
Lehane, Dennis	Prayers for Rain	4
Lehane, Dennis	A Drink Before the War	4
Lehane, Dennis	Mystic River	3 ½
Lehane, Dennis	Shutter Island	3 ½
Lescroart, John	Guilt	4

MacLean, Alistair	H.M.S. Ulysses	5
MacLean, Alistair	South By Java Head	3 ½
MacLean, Alistair	Fear is the Key	3 ½
MacLean, Alistair	Breakheart Pass	3;
MacLean, Alistair	When Eight Bells Toll	3 ½
Maclean, Norman	A River Runs Through It	4
Macleod, Ken	Cosmonaut Keep	3 ½
Martin, David	Cul-De-Sac	2 ½
Martini, Steve	Compelling Evidence	4
Mayo, J. K.	The Hunting Season	3 ½
McCammon, Robert R.	Boy's Life	4
McDevitt, Jack	Hello Out There	3 ½
McDevitt, Jack	Eternity Road	3 ½
McDevitt, Jack	Chindi	4
Medland, Maurice	Point of Honor	3 ½
Miller, John Ramsey	The Last Family	3 ½

Niven, Larry	Destiny's Road	3 ½
Niven, Larry	Flatlander	3
Niven, Larry	The Integral Trees	3 ½
Niven, Larry (et al)	The Man-Kzin Wars	3 ½
Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry	Footfall	4
Niven, Larry & Barnes, Steven	Dream Park	3 ½
Nykanen, Mark	The Bone Parade	3

O'Reilly, Victor	The Devil's Footprint	3
Ouellette, Pierre	The Third Pandemic	3 ½

Parker, Jefferson	The Fallen	3 ½
Petit, Chris	The Psalm Killer	3 ½
Piccirilli, Tom	Hexes	2 ½
Pirinçci, Akif	Felidae	3 ½
Pirinçci, Akif	Felidae on the Road	3
Pollock, J. C.	Goering's List	3 ½
Prescott, Michael	Comes the Dark	3 ½
Prescott, Michael	The Shadow Hunter	4
Preston, Douglas	The Codex	3
Preston D. & Child L.	Thunderhead	3 ½
Preston D. & Child L.	Riptide	3 ½
Preston D. & Child L.	Cabinet of Curiosities	3 ½
Preston D. & Child L.	Still Life with Crows	4
Preston D. & Child L.	Brimstone	3 ½
Preston D. & Child L.	Dance of Death	4
Pronzini, Bill	Blue Lonesome	3 ½
Pronzini, Bill	Nothing but the Night	3 ½
Pronzini, Bill	Night Freight	3 ½
Pronzini, Bill	Nightcrawlers	3 ½

            Quinnell, A. J.
            The Perfect Kill
            3 ½
          

Reynolds, Alastair	Revelation Space	3 ½
Rice, Anne	Interview with the Vampire	4
Robertson, Frank M.	The Dark Beyond the Stars	5
Robertson, Frank M.	The Power	4
Robertson, Kim Stanley	Icehenge	3 ½
Robertson, Kim Stanley	The Gold Coast	4 ½
Robertson, Kim Stanley	Escape from Kathmandu	4
Robson, Lucia St. Clair	The Tokaido Road	4

Sandford, John	Rules of Prey	4
Sasser C.W. & Roberts C.	One Shot, One Kill	3 ½
Sawyer, Robert J.	Factoring Humanity	4
Sawyer, Robert J.	Illegal Alien	4
Sawyer, Robert J.	Golden Fleece	3 ½
Sawyer, Robert J.	Starplex	3 ½
Sawyer, Robert J.	Frameshift	3 ½
Sheffield, Charles	Convergent Series	3
Sheffield, Charles	The Billion Dollar Boy	4
Shute, Neville	On the Beach	4 ½
Siegel, James	Derailed	3
Simon, Michael	Dirty Sally	3 ½
Simmons, Dan	The Hollow Man	4
Simmons, Dan	The Crook Factory	4
Simmons, Dan	Children of the Night	4
Simmons, Dan	Summer of Night	4
Simmons, Dan	A Winter Haunting	3 ½
Simmons, Dan	Hardcase	3 ½
Simmons, Dan	Hard Freeze	4
Simmons, Dan	Hard As Nails	4
Simmons, Dan	Phases of Gravity	4 ½
Smith, Mitchell	Stone City	3 ½
Starling, Boris	Messiah	3 ½
Steele, Allen	The Jericho Iteration	3 ½
Steele, Allen	Coyote	3 ½
Stephenson, Neal	Snow Crash	4
Stephenson, Neal	The Diamond Age	3 ½
Stevens, Shane	The Anvil Chorus	4
Stewart, George R.	Earth Abides	3 ½
Straub, Peter	Mr. X	4
Straub, Peter	lost boy lost girl	4
Straub, Peter	The Night Room	4
Straub, Peter	Mystery	4 ½
Straub, Peter	The Throat	4
Strieber, Whitley	Cat Magic	3 ½
Stroud, Carsten	Sniper's Moon	4
Stroud, Carsten	Black Water Transit	4
Sunderman, John F. X.	Acts of the Apostles	3 ½
Swiniarski, S.A.	The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire	4

Tanenbaum, Robert K.	Reckless Endangerment	3 ½
Thayer, James	White Star	4
Thayer, James	Five Past Midnight	3
Tolkien, J.R.R.	The Hobbit	3 ½
Tolkien, J.R.R.	The Lord Of The Rings	5
Tolkien, J.R.R.	The Silmarillion	4 ½

Varley, John	The Golden Globe	4
Vinge, Vernor	A Fire upon the Deep	4
Vinge, Vernor	A Deepness in the Sky	3 ½

Watkins, Paul	Calm At Sunset, Calm At Dawn	4
Watts, Peter	Starfish	4
Wells, H.G.	The War of the Worlds	4
White, T. H.	The Once and Future King	4
Winchester, Simon	The Professor and the Madman	4 ½
Winton, John	The Fighting Téméraire	3
Woods, Stuart	Dead in the Water	3

Baldwin, et al	OpenVMS System Management Guide	3 ½
Butenhof, David R.	Programming with POSIX Threads	4 ½
Davis, Roy	VAXCluster Principles	4 ½
Frisch, Æleen	Essential Systems Administration	4
Goldenberg, et al	VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures (v5.2)	4 ½
Harrison & Steele	C: A Reference Manual	4
Hunt & Thomas	The Pragmatic Programmer	4 ½
Kernighan & Ritchie	The C Programming Language	4
Knuth, Donald E.	The Art of Computer Programming	5
Kotter, John P.	Leading Change	4
Martelli, Alex	Python in a Nutshell	3 ½
McCoy, Kirby	VMS File System Internals	3 ½
Niemeyer & Knudsen	Learning Java	3 ½
Rainwater, Hank	Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers that Lead Programmers	3 ½
Sherlock & Szubowicz	Writing OpenVMS Alpha Device Drivers in C	4

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