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.

Inferno by Dan Brown

  • Started on: 2013-06-18
  • Finished on: 2013-06-19
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ***–
  • Genre(s): Historical Adventure

Of course I knew about the new Dan Brown coming out, but since I wasn’t impressed by the last one, I only wanted to pick this up if I could find it cheap. Ah well, DH wanted to read it, so we got it, and when he did, I couldn’t be far behind. This book hasn’t changed my opinion about Dan Brown. I can see why it is enjoyable, but when you have read more and better books, you can see where he fails. His books read like movie scripts, and this one is no different. Entertaining, but no more than that. Three out of five stars, because for once he is not (really) going after a huge secret organisation.

  • Started on: 2013-06-18
  • Finished on: 2013-06-19
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ***–
  • Genre(s): Historical Adventure

Of course I knew about the new Dan Brown coming out, but since I wasn’t impressed by the last one, I only wanted to pick this up if I could find it cheap. Ah well, DH wanted to read it, so we got it, and when he did, I couldn’t be far behind. This book hasn’t changed my opinion about Dan Brown. I can see why it is enjoyable, but when you have read more and better books, you can see where he fails. His books read like movie scripts, and this one is no different. Entertaining, but no more than that. Three out of five stars, because for once he is not (really) going after a huge secret organisation.