@AwkwardSalt

@AwkwardSalt

Alyse

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What are your favorite books of all time?

When you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personal...

The Lord of the Rings
Dune
1984
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Way of Kings
Pride and Prejudice
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Hobbit
The Martian
The Hunger Games
Project Hail Mary

Alyse's Most Popular Reviews

I think this was written by a 12-year-old kid. The humor is painful. CBS-sitcom level painful. No story need this many disco “jokes”. The dialogue is stilted. The character development is non-existent. The science is interesting, but it's mostly just algebra and unit conversions

April 19, 2015

I'm a sucker for a story where the characters don't have names and are only identified by their scientific field of expertise

January 9, 2018

I love the things Jonathan Lethem can do with words, but sometimes I wish he'd remember to include a plot. Also, the last 200 pages are as horrible as everyone says

December 7, 2013

[b:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 76527 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403402384s/76527.jpg 2280279] in space. Yet somehow weirder

February 22, 2016

It's insane how good this

October 2, 2016