bookreview Bookreview: Acorna - the unicorn girl Don't be fooled by the cover of this book. The title and the cover easily creates associations to cheap pulp fiction of the type filled with sappy romance, unicorns and fantasy worlds.
bookreview Bookreview: Acorna's quest This is the second book in a series of six books about Acorna written by Anne McCaffrey. The book can be read by itself.
bookreview Bookreview: 1984 1984 is science fiction at it's absolute best. We enter a future version of 1984 were "Big brother" rules. This is a cracking good read, excitement and a clear political warning.
bookreview Bookreview: Third Watch: Acorna's Children This is a book that should never have been written. McCaffrey should never have continued this series and should have let the series die with the books about Acorna. The story is dull.
bookreview Bookreview: The Wishsong of Shannara This is the third book in the original trilogy about Shannara, and it doesn't disappoint. The books is at least as exciting as it's predecessors and a book every fantasy lover must read.
bookreview Bookreview: The Rose Rent A widow who has donated her old house to the cloister asking only for one white rose from the garden each year is kidnapped.
bookreview Bookreview: The Hermit of Eyton Forrest A young boy looses his parents and inherits the title Lord from his father. A body appears in the woods and a servant the young boy has befriended becomes the prime suspect.
bookreview Bookreview: The Elfstones of Shannara "The Elfstones of Shannara" is the second book Terry Brooks wrote in a huge series about the Shannara world and is part of the original trilogy. This is genuine fantastic reading.
bookreview Bookreview: Python scripting for computational science Python scripting for computational science is an unusually good textbook. The author goes straight to the point without beating around the bush and the book is full of simple to understand examples.
bookreview Bookreview: Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, 2nd Edition If you actually want to learn syntactic theory this is a good book. However, it's main focus would be for machine use. The methods presented are typical "paper and pencil" methods.
bookreview Bookreview: Operating systems - a systematic view This book covers everything from the mundane, like how the file explorer in Windows XP works, to the complex, like how the scheduler works in UNIX-systems.
bookreview Bookreview: Learning GNU emacs Learning GNU emacs is the best textbook available teaching emacs - the best editor there is. Both beginners and experienced emacs users will find this book useful.
bookreview Bookreview: Innføring i datakommunikasjon This is something as unusual as a sucsessful Norwegian computer book. The authors have done a great job writing this book. It's very informative, you learn what you need to learn.
bookreview Bookreview: First Warning: Acorna's Children Acorna's Children is the first book in a new series by McCaffrey written as a followup to the series about Acorna. The series about Acorna is quite good, this however, not so much.
bookreview Bookreview: Dragon's Fire This is yet a fantastic book about the dragon world of Pern by McCaffrey. The quality of her writing is back to what it was at the beginning of this series written in the seventies.
bookreview Bookreview: Dragonsblood Anne McCaffrey has finally let her son, Todd McCaffrey, enter the Pern world and has written two books in cooperation with him. This is the first book about Pern Todd has written.
bookreview Bookreview: C Programming Language "C Programming Language" is a book you either will love or hate. The style of writing is quite special, but it's quite obvious that the book was written by smart people.
bookreview Bookreview: The Confession of Brother Haluin Cadfael receives brother Haluins confessions on his deathbed. Haluin survives and when he later gets better he and Cadfael embark on a travel to repent Haluins old sins.
bookreview Bookreview: Big Fish Big Fish is a wonderful fairytale for grownups. A good one too. The book is amazing and completely impossible to put down. This book puts you in a good mood.
bookreview Bookreview: An Excellent Mystery "An excellent mystery" is exactly what it claims to be; an excellent mystery. As usual Ellis Peters doesn't disappoint and serves us a fantastic story about the detective-munk Cadfael.
bookreview Bookreview: The Raven in the Foregate Yet a fantastic and realistic medieval crime novel by Ellis Peters. This time around a new priest arrives in the district. The priest is a learned man with a strong belief in discipline.
bookreview Bookreview: The pilgrim of hate "The pilgrim of hate" is yet another fantastic middle age whodunit by Ellis Peters. The book starts a bit dull. The first 3-4 chapters are actually boring.
bookreview Bookreview: The renegades of Pern The reneages of Pern is of the classic McCaffrey literature. Extremely hard to put down, very exciting and quite easy to dream oneself away in.
bookreview Bookreview: The salmon of doubt Douglas Adams was one of the great masters of British humour. This is a post hume collection of small bits of his work. Most of it has been previously published in different magazines.
bookreview Bookreview: The Sword of Shannara "The sword of Shannara" was the first book Terrry Brooks wrote after discovering Tolkien. That shows. Especially the first half of the book is highly inspired by Tolkiens masterpiece.