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1. The Hunger Games – as someone above said, the first is the best of them. I quite enjoyed it. The other fun thing about reading YA is that you don’t have to work on deciphering the subtext 🙂

   Reamde – someone told Stephenson to cut out all the cod-Platonism and historical stuff out, so this is computers and guns geekery and there’s more room for the thriller. Computers and guns geekery, not a great subtext 🙁

   How to train your dragon — barely remembered

   Kraken – I’m with Christopher Priest. Mieville could be doing better.

   Thorns – written in his mad prolific early 70’s period, read in the 80’s period when I read loads of Silverberg, can’t remember it at all

   Luther Arkwright – one of the Victoriana/steampunk ur-texts

   Red and the Black, Dead Souls, Eyeless in Gaza – all book club books last year. I liked the Stendhal more than most, but I think I like French fiction more than most. Dead Souls is a lot of fun in the early sections, but wherever it was going in the end was less so. Eyeless is in the ‘interesting for teh wrong reasons’ section

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