Book reviews

This is an index of my book reviews on this blog.

General fiction
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway 2/5
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 3/5
King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine 3/5
Panatagruel by Rabelais 1/5
State of Fear by Michael Crichton 3/5
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Montserrat 5/5
The Ghost By Richard Harris  4/5
The Female of the Species by Sapper 2/5
The Lover by Marguerite Duras 2/5
The Minotaur by Ruth Rendell 4/5
The Mouse that Roared by Leonard Wibberley 3/5
The Nautical Chart by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 3/5
The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy by Gavin Maxwell 3/5
The Warden by Anthony Trollope  4/5 

Science fiction and fantasy
Anathem by Neal Stephenson 5/5
Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear 2/5
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 3/5
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 3/5
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 3/5 
Declare by Tim Powers 4/5
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 5/5
Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear 3/5
Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross 3/5
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins  2/5
Morlock Night by KW Jeter 2/5
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman 3/5
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers 2/5
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross 3/5
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner 1/5
Survivors by Terry Nation 3/5
Tatja Grimm's World by Verner Vinge 3/5
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman 2/5
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers 4/5
The Atrocity Archive by Charles Stross 3/5
The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge 3/5
The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers 3/5
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndam 4/5
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 3/5
The Forge of God by Greg Bear 2/5
The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross 2/5
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem 4/5
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1/5
The Golden Age by John C. Wright 3/5
The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright 2/5
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross 3/5
The Maracot Deep by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2/5
The Pheonix Exultant by John C. Wright 3/5
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi 3/5   
The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5/5
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman 2/5
The World in Winter by John Christopher 2/5
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake 4/5
Titus Groan by Mevyn Peake 5/5

Crime fiction
13 steps down by Ruth Rendell  2/5
American Tabloid by James Ellroy 4/5
A Red Death by Walter Mosley 4/5
Adam and Eve and Pinch me by Ruth Rendell 3/5
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy 2/5
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosely 3/5
Die a Little by Megan Abbott 4/5
Farewell my Lovely by Raymond Chandler 3/5
LA Confidential by James Ellroy 5/5
Master of the Moor by Ruth Rendell 3/5
Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin 3/5
Playback by Raymond Chandler 3/5
Queenpin by Megan Abbott 3/5
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammet 3/5
Special Assignments by Boris Akunin 3/5
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy 4/5
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 4/5
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy 4/5
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy 3/5
The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald 3/5
The High Window by Raymond Chandler 4/5
The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard 3/5
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler 4/5
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler 3/5
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 3/5
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet 3/5
The Mike Hammer Omnibus Vol 1 by Mickey Spillane 3/5
The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald 3/5
The story is you by Megan Abbott 3/5
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammet 4/5
The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald 4/5
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley 3/5
White Jazz by James Ellroy 4/5

Graphic Novels 
The Grand Duke by Berthet Yann and Romain Hugault 4/5
The Incal by Moebius and Jodorowsky  4/5

Historical fiction
Achtung Schweinhund! by Harry Pearson 3/5
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini 4/5
Captain Pamphile by Alexandre Dumas 2/5
Count Bohemond by Alfred Duggan 3/5 
Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian 4/5
Enigma by Robert Harris 4/5
HMS Surprise By Patrick O'Brian 5/5
Imperium by Robert Harris 5/5
Kingdom of the Grail by A. A. Attanasio 2/5
Knight with armour By Alfred Duggan 3/5
Legionernes Vrede, (The Centurions) By Jean Lartèguy 3/5
Lustrum by Robert Harris 5/5
Master and Commander by Patrick OBrian 5/5 Revisited 5/5
Post Captain by Patrick OBrian 4/5 Revisited 5/5
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini 4/5
The Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin 3/5
The Duellists by Joseph Conrad 4/5
The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian 4/5
The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian 4/5
The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian  5/5
The Lady for Ransom by Alfred Duggan  3/5
The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian 3/5
The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear and others 3/5
The Mystery of the Black Jungle by Emilio Salgari  3/5
The Phantom Ship by Captain Marryat 2/5
The Purity of Blood by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2/5
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 3/5
The Sun over Breda by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2/5
The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian 4/5
The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin 3/5
The Wine Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian 3/5
The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin 4/5
Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian 5/5
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 4/5
Watermark by Vanitha Sankaran 3/5

Cold War & espionage fiction
Dr. No By Ian Fleming 3/5 
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming 3/5
Smiley's People by John Le Carré 3/5
Snow Falcon by Craig Thomas 2/5
The Arctic Event by Ludlum & Cobb 3/5
The Bear's Tears by Craig Thomas 2/5 
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum 4/5
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton 3/5
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré 2/5
The Spy who came in from the Cold John le Carré 4/5
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré 4/5

History
Harry's War by Harry Drinkwater 4/5  
Mechanised Force: British Tanks between the wars By David Fletcher 4/5
T-Force. The Forgotten Heroes of 1945 by Sean Longden 3/5
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian 3/5
The Life of Saladin by Sir Hamilton Gibb 1/5
The Medieval Machine by Jean Gimpel 4/5
The Memoirs of Usama Ibn Munqihd 3/5
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J Ruppelt 4/5
The Safeguard of the Sea by N.A.M. Rodgers 3/5
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki 1/5
Thermopylae and the Battle for the West by Ernle Bradford4/5
Trafalgar, an Eye Witness History by Tom Pocock 5/5
U Boat Ace, the Story of Wolfgang Lüth by Jordan Vause 4/4
Victory of the West; The Great Christian - Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto by Niccolo Capponi 4/4

Aircraft

Aircraft

This is the index of all my previous posts relating to ships.

The Flying Wing
Project Zveno
Autogyro's, gyrodynes & helicogyres
More autogyro designs (by moif)
Ground effect vehicles
Eugen Sänger
Sergey Korolyov
ME 262
HE 51-b2
XB 70 'Valkyrie'
VIDEO B17
Douglas SBD Dauntless
P38 'Lightning'
Bristol Beaufighter
Henschel Hs 129
VIDEO The Battle of Midway in colour (with original aircraft footage)
Buran

LZ129 Hindenburg; 70th anniversary of her destruction
Airship animation

'Flyboys'
'The Blue Max'
'Red Baron' trailer 2

Models

This is the index of all my previous posts relating to models.

General
Ship models 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (see also the ship index)
General modeling post 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Latex casting
Triffids
Giant 2 3

Medieval & Iron age
Inn 2 3
Cthulhu House 2 3
Village store 2
Chandlery
Iron age village
Baggage elements 2
Models for Takshendal 2 3 4 (see also the Takshendal blog)
The Battle of Gripen
Turcopoles
Saxons
Order Teutonica (See also Die Schwartzekreutz Bruderschafft blog)

-ROCKETMAN-
Models for -ROCKETMAN- 2 3
(See also the -ROCKETMAN- index, blog & Terragenesis gallery)
Bolshevik Black Guards 2
Olga's Chinese bandits
Schattentruppen
Rocketman characters
AFV models compared
Rolls Royce armoured cars
The Indy Tank
FT-17
Heinkel HE51
Armoured Train
Le Mollusc 2 3 4
Destroyer model; Şahin
Ruins 2

Ships

This is the index of all my previous posts relating to ships.

Models and games (see also the models index)
moifs Carrack/Nao model 2
Olegs galley model 2 3 4
General ship modelling posts 2 3 4 5
DBA Naval games 2
The Battle of Port Royale
The Battle of La Coruna 2
Captain Redbeard
Al Haqb
Takshendal 1.0: Attack of the Pirate Horde 2
Le Mollusc 2 3 4
Destroyer: Şahin

Historical
Historical ship types
Xebecs
Venetian galley
The Battle of Lepanto 2
The Battle of Damme
Baltic Cog Combat
Havhingsten 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
The Second Battle of Copenhagen
Ground effect vehicles
City class Ironclads
Flower Class corvettes
The Battle of Midway in colour
Vlieboot
Batavia
Duyfken

Entertainment
Master and Commander (novel)
Post Captain (novel)
1492 (film)
Das Boot (film)
U Boat Ace: The story of Wolfgang Lüth (book)
The Nautical Chart (novel)
Yamoto (film)
Treasure Island (novel)
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Mans Chest (film)
Captain Kidd, The Scarlet Pirate & Long John Silver (films)
Elizabeth; The Golden Age (film)
Master and Commander: The Far side of the World (film)
Captain Blood (novel)
Admiral (ships)