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Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Very good, I think I even liked it better than Dime Store Magic. The books seem to be getting better with every one. Good plot, no strange endings dangling anywhere, suspenseful, straight forward, nice amount of action. Characters are well fleshed out and believable. I had fun!

I'll be happy to give this book away, just let me know if you want it.

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Le Tour Gourmand - Ein kulinarisches Reisetagebuch von Bad Ischl bis Peking by Christoph Wagner

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I dumped this book after 20 pages. It was irritating. The author was building endless sentences, that meandered along senselessly. Maybe he was trying to look smart, I don't know. Authors writing in German have a tendency to do that. I guess German is a perfect language to stick on another comma and yet another sentence and another comma and... repeat ad infinitum. It's one of the reasons why I dislike reading novels in German so much.

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The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have seen the movie with Tom Cruise, so I was cross-referencing the book against that while reading. Didn't want to, but it just kept running in the background. A fairly slow pace in the beginning, it picked up nicely towards the end. It felt emotionally distant, I had a hard time sympathising with the main character. The description of the aliens was great, reminded me a little of Lovecraft. There was a lot of descriptions of who was going where, which made it feel a little like a Geography lesson of the Greater London area at times. It didn't captivate me, but all things considered it wasn't bad.