Sara's reading log

I am a book hoarder and reader. My main genre is SF, but I also love magic realism, fantasy and general fiction. Favorite authors are Iain M. Banks, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Isaac Asimov, Ben Aaronovitch and more. My rating system is based on five stars. I rate books based on my expectations and what a books aims to be. This means that the brilliant 'Fahrenheit 451' gets five stars because I thought it would be good, people said it was good, and it was good, but 'A Closed and Common Orbit' also gets five stars because in its series, in its style, I really enjoyed it and was not disappointed.

Stalen jongens, felle knapen by Richard Matheson

  • Started on: 2012-05-24
  • Finished on: 2012-05-24
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

As a short quick read I read this short story collection by Richard Matheson. Before I started collecting more and more science fiction books, I only knew him from I Am Legend, but when you read collections like this you realize he has written many stories that were the inspiration for movies. The funny thing is, I never know this before hand, so I read something, think it sounds familiar, look it up, and sure enough, the story was the inspiration for…
I always find it hard to review a collection. Overall I liked this book, the stories were short but good. The stories gave just enough of a creep or inspiration to make you think about them. The stories that I recognized from movies en TV were “Steel” (Real Steel) and “Nightmare at 20.000 feet” (the famous Twilight Zone episode about the guy on the airplane wing that only William Shatner sees). Other gems were “Through Channels” (reminding me of a Doctor Who episode) and “When the Waker Sleeps”. A great writer, good stories, four out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2012-05-24
  • Finished on: 2012-05-24
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

As a short quick read I read this short story collection by Richard Matheson. Before I started collecting more and more science fiction books, I only knew him from I Am Legend, but when you read collections like this you realize he has written many stories that were the inspiration for movies. The funny thing is, I never know this before hand, so I read something, think it sounds familiar, look it up, and sure enough, the story was the inspiration for…
I always find it hard to review a collection. Overall I liked this book, the stories were short but good. The stories gave just enough of a creep or inspiration to make you think about them. The stories that I recognized from movies en TV were “Steel” (Real Steel) and “Nightmare at 20.000 feet” (the famous Twilight Zone episode about the guy on the airplane wing that only William Shatner sees). Other gems were “Through Channels” (reminding me of a Doctor Who episode) and “When the Waker Sleeps”. A great writer, good stories, four out of five stars.