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If you are at all interested in reading good books then I would be hard pressed to find a book I would recommend as highly as The Glister by John Burnside. Part thriller, part coming of age story, the book takes place in an unnamed Scottish coastal town that has been decimated by years of pollution courtesy of the chemical plant that was the life blood of the town until it's closure. Now the town is dying as well as it's inhabitants, courtesy of various incurable & unnamable maladies. To make matters worse, local children have been disappearing & the towns adult population is either indifferent to or complicit in preventing the disappearances from stopping or being solved. This leaves it in the hands of several local children to uncover the truth & stop the disappearnces. If all that seems like standard fare for a typical run of the mill thriller, believe me when I say that nothing about this book is average. John Burnside is a poet & he brings a poet's eye to the story with an economy of language & a truly terrifying evocation of a town that is poisoned both on the inside & on the outside. The Glister is highly, highly recommended.

And while on the subjects of books, I hate to say it but I was seriously disappointed by Ender In Exile, Orson Scott Card's sequel to the classic  Ender's Game. Before I talk about EIE, I'd like to explain that it's been probably 20 years since I read EG. It's always been one of my favorite books & there are parts of it that I have always fondly remembered. Especially the ending. So, before I read EIE, I felt it necessary to reread EG. While it was just as amazing as I had remembered, I was slightly taken aback by the appearance of a 15th chapter that I did not recall having read the first time through & which told of what happens to Ender after the war & after he leaves Earth. Now, while it's entirely possible that I had in fact read this chapter & forgotten about it, I believe it was added when the book was rerealesed in 1991. And while it's not a terrible thing to have done, I personally think that it does take away from the impact of the original ending. I clearly recall wondering how it was possible for OSC to wrap everything up when there was only a few pages left. And I remeber my jaw hitting the floor when he did. So I can't help but feel sorry that people that are reading the book now won't have the same experience with it I did, and that's a shame. With that said, EIE is basically an expansion of & companion to Chapter 15 of Ender's Game. If you are at all familiar with OSC you already know that he is an amazing writer & that Ender is one of the finest & most loved characters in Science Fiction. With that said, the parts of EIE that concern Ender or his sister Valentine are great & I enjoyed them immensely. Unfortunately, that's only about 20 of the first 100 pages & less than half of the entire book. The rest of the book is filled with characters that are not nearly as interesting as Ender, including two of the most horrendous, cliched characters I've ever read. To top it off, the last third of the book seemed incredibly rushed, with characters that were prominent being written off without having earned their overinflated prescence in the book. I was also highly annoyed that OSC chose to gloss over several key events that he went into depth on in EGC15. So overall, I was disappointed in a book that I had some really high hopes for. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all if this review is longer than Ender's prescence in a book that contains his name in the title but little of his spirit.