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136 reviews

Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I could never objectively rate this, or any other book Harlan wrote. He is my best friend that I’ll never meet. Someone else will have to point out the flaws. I couldn’t do it if I tried. 
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced

4.0

Into the Night by Lawrence Block, Cornell Woolrich

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

The Folly by Gemma Amor

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dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

4.0

A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Holy cow. I wish I could give this 1000 stars. 
Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan by Michael Livingston

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informative fast-paced

5.0

There is a lot of fantastic information packed into this tiny book. 
Spring by Karl Ove Knausgård

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emotional sad fast-paced

3.5

“Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for. Could you try to remember that?”
Colony by Ben Bova

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adventurous slow-paced

3.0

Pretty typical Bova: an interesting concept marred by poor follow-through, trite dialogue that reads like a novelization, and ever worsening racial and gender stereotypes. Ben was a product of his time and never escaped it. 

Still, this is better than other books he wrote. 
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Revenge from the Grave by David Stuart Davies

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adventurous fast-paced

2.5

This is not the worst thing that Davies has written; however, that is not saying a whole lot. All of the twists were highly
visible from miles away. 

Holmes disguises himself three times, in three different costumes, and the villain uses two disguises. That’s a lot of disguising for 280 pages. The final showdown features them confronting each other while disguised, so I hope anyone who reads this really likes that characteristic of Holmes.