If it wasn't for unbelievably disappointing climax it would be 5 stars. King once again shows how brilliantly he can portray child characters. Among the best I've read from him (so far).

It's a masterpiece and everything about it has been said at least a thousand times. Maybe except one thing - you want to tell me that humankind still uses imperial units 25 000 years in the future instead of metric system?! We deserve the dark era, then!

Book is great and would've been 5 stars if Cook managed to make the last quarter of the book (the battle) as interesting as the rest of it and if Raven's coldness wasn't so annoying.

Who said I'm crying?! I'm not crying! Just something fell in my eye! Really! Nothing to do with the ending...

A REQUEST
When I die
Do not throw the bones and meat away
But pile them up
And
Let them tell
By their smell
What life was worth
On this earth
What love was worth
In the end
- Kamela Das

That ending really got me. A very solid debut, but what else could I expect from somebody who later wrote Hyperion.

Gotta say I expected something different from this book but in the end it didn't disappoint. Exactly what I needed in the current state of my life - a kick in the balls and a shout in my ear - “FIGHT, YOU MOTHERFUCKER! It's worth it!”

Insane adventures of Bauchelain, Korbal and their poor servant Emancipor. The Healthy Dead is worth getting this book alone but the other two novellas are good too.

It's a great distraction when you're ploughing through ICE's first novels.