Bolos 5: Old Guard Why do men fall asleep after sex?
Author: mikal
Why do men fall asleep after sex?
This is the second medical trivia book by The Leyner and Goldberg duo. The first was Why do men have nipples, which I read in June. This book suffers from the same flaws as the first — its light weight and doesn’t take itself very seriously. That means that often they avoid answering serious questions,…
Bolos 5: Old Guard
This book is similar to the previous Bolo anthologies in that it is written by a number of different authors, but utilizes Laumer’s Concordiat universe. Contrary to another LibraryThing review, all of the stories on this book don’t occur on one planet. All but one of them occurs on Delas, and the final one is…
Books read in June 2009
Bolos 2: The Unconquerable Why don’t penguin’s feet freeze? (and 114 other questions) Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Alliance Why do men have nipples? The Book of General Ignorance Bolos 3: The Triumphant Bolos 4: Last Stand
The Wild Palms Hotel
When leaving the US, I stayed in the Wild Palms Hotel. I selected it for three reasons: I’d stayed there before; it is part of the Joie De Vivre chain which I have had good experiences with before; and it was very cheap on Expedia ($77 compared to an average rate in the area of…
Bolos 4: Last Stand
This book continues on from many of the previous short stories, which is a nice touch. It also starts to fill in some of the historical gaps between the collapse of US society (night of the trolls), to the Concordiat Empire, to the Melconian wars. I found one story in this book pretty hard to…
Bolos 3: The Triumphant
This book is a little different from Bolos 1 and Bolos 2 in that it is several short novels instead of a collection of short stories. On the other hand, they’re very good short novels, and I quite liked Nike’s character. I’m glad I read this book. Title: The Triumphant Author: Keith Laumer, David Weber,…
The Book of General Ignorance
I seem to be on a bit of a trivia book kick, which is at least partially motivated by getting through all my Christmas presents so I can pack them into a box and move to a different country. This book was written as part of the production of the very excellent BBC quiz show…
Why do men have nipples?
This book is pretty light weight. The font is big, and there is lots of “chrome” on the pages, which conspire to make a book which would probably be only 100 pages in a normal font more like 200 pages. The book also suffers from trying a little too hard to be funny, with numerous…
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Alliance
Given how disappointed I have been in other books in this series, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. The style is very readable, and the content is interesting. The plot seems more nuanced than some of the others in the series, and the characters aren’t as one dimensional either. This isn’t the best book…