Literary Criticism and Reviews: Goodreads Reviews
Now, Goodreads.com of course is not a peer-reviewed academic journal or a venue for work contracted by a publishing house. Most of my writing, after all, is, well, “professional” like that—either an article for a journal vetted by professors who are experts in a given topic, or something a reference publisher like Salem Press specifically asks for and then pays for. These are things that go on a curriculum vita, whereas Goodreads is not.
Moreover, I have to confess that my attention to Goodreads really waxes and wanes. That is, sometimes I get on a great streak and am really good about doing reviews of the random things I happen to be reading. Other times I mean to, but I may get behind, and then I grow a little too stale on the piece and hence end up posting nothing—highly frustrating. And occasionally I just forget altogether, and it ends up being a year or two between reviews...
Oh, yes— And the chances of my doing a Goodreads review of anything by Ray Bradbury or Robert A. Heinlein, or any other author I have read for pleasure prior to 2013 or 2014 when I first got on the site, are just about zero. I suppose it could happen after a more recent reread, though—it did for some Philip K. Dick, come to think of it. But this definitely is not common.
However, my website helps me keep track of my writings, and my Goodreads reviews can be somewhat entertaining on occasion, so here goes anyway--
Abolishing the Taboo: Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961, Brian Madison Jones: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6097900349
The Abominations of Yondo, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5220700149
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, William Manchester: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6235193100
The Argosy Book of Adventure Stories, ed. Rogers Terrill: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4169900736
Jim Burns Art
The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal, Jim Burns: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6075153506
Lightship: Jim Burns, Master of SF Illustration, Jim Burns and Chris Evans: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6072630839
Pellucidar series, Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar series #1), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4496798510
Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #2), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4514371620
Tanar of Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #3), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4545529411
Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Pellucidar series #4), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4575368858
Back to the Stone Age (Pellucidar series #5), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4617612793
Land of Terror (Pellucidar series #6), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4658207410
Savage Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #7), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4746756993
The Axmann Conspiracy: The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It, Scott Andrew Selby: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2081645276
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Gregory "Pappy" Boyington: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5688232754
Barsoom, See beginning with A Princess of Mars
Beau Geste, P.C. Wren: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2062359734
Becoming Ray Bradbury, Jonathan R. Eller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1142232577
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, Frederick Kempe: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2053455709
Bernard Sampson series, See beginning with Spy Hook
The Big Clock, Kenneth Fearing: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3463008583
The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America, Miranda Devine: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7094400296
Black Tuesday Over Namsi: B-29s vs MiGs--The Forgotten Air Battle of the Korean War, 23 October 1951, Earl J. McGill: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5654617862
Blitzed: Drug Use in Nazi Germany, Norman Ohler: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3594421634
John Masters Memoirs
Bugles and a Tiger: A Volume of Autobiography, John Masters: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6351392797
The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative, John Masters: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6390188632
Pilgrim Son: A Personal Odyssey, John Masters: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6413394797
Burma Sahib, Paul Theroux: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6320347571
Burmese Days, George Orwell: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6293483531
The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1281337606
California Crazy: American Pop Architecture, Jim Heimann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4394920670
Carry On, Jeeves! (Jeeves series), P.G. Wodehouse: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4836376169
The City on the Edge of Forever, Harlan Ellison: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7318604722
Classic American Streamliners, Mike Schafer and Joe Welsh: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5473749497
Sean Duffy series, Adrian McKinty
The Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy series #1), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4764191008
I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Sean Duffy series #2), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4793293297
In the Morning I'll Be Gone (Sean Duffy series #3), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4802693877
Gun Street Girl (Sean Duffy series #4), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4820671865
Rain Dogs (Sean Duffy series #5), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4847884063
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Sean Duffy series #6), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4861645790
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2265684448
Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/985909012
Crimson Sky: The Air Battle for Korea, John R. Bruning, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5642210188
The Crossroads of Time, Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3481008236
Cyborg, Martin Caidin: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7138879513
Damey & Grandpa Tutor, Larry Webb: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/980617335
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5305654136
The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1072845438
The Dirty Dozen, E.M. Nathanson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4782264020
The Dog Stars, Peter Heller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3678748346
Drawings from the Gulag, Danzig Baldaev: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4336026507
The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3508149187
The Eternal Champion, Michael Moorcock: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4110643242
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Avi Loeb: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3837751967
Falling, T.J. Newman: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4104875178
The Familiar Dark, Amy Engel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3516753722
Fate Is the Hunter, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4123492955
Fatherland, Robert Harris: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1502761931
Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe series #1), Rex Stout: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4822566402
Firefox, Craig Thomas: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3580047821
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3630749342
Genius Loci and Other Stories, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5152344429
Glory for Me, MacKinlay Kantor: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3589568071
God Is My Co-Pilot, Robert L. Scott, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5709965396
Grammar without Tears, Tabitha Ormiston-Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1142035368
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4017483836
Hide and Seek: The Untold Story of Cold War Naval Espionage, Peter Huchthausen and Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3567879637
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5043973689
The High and the Mighty, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4886305128
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6809904990
Hold On!, Peter Darley: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/995034110
The Human Stain, Philip Roth: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1555242731
The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3574369336
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3499619641
I Killed Stalin, Sterling Noel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5351513830
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, A.T. Mahan: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5997355211
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1034719193
The IPCRESS Files, Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5330848863
Raj Quartet, Paul Scott
The Jewel in the Crown (Raj Quartet #1), Paul Scott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6528870729
The Day of the Scorpion (Raj Quartet #2), Paul Scott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6568688063
The Towers of Silence (Raj Quartet #3), Paul Scott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6611131197
A Division of the Spoils (Raj Quartet #4), Paul Scott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6644268799
Julia, Sandra Newman: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5942783241
KG 200, J.D. Gilman and John Clive: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5366603023
Khrushchev Remembers, Nikita Khrushchev, edited and with commentary by Edward Crankshaw and translated by Strobe Talbot: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6277815685www.goodreads.com/review/show/6277815685
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3542154543
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, Miranda Devine: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4560746244
Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3864831853
The Legion of Space, Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/988149834
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity, Axton Betz-Hamilton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6449013418
Listen! The Wind, Anne Morrow Lindbergh: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5739167981
The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1147722336
The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1042538401
Lost Worlds, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5120107454
Make Room! Make Room!, Harry Harrison: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3886675205
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1009625789
A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. Weinbaum: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1028584906
Masters of Time, A.E. van Vogt: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6887105663
A Matter of Morals, Joseph Gies: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1282859634
Medal of Honor: Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present, Allen Mikaelian with commentary by Mike Wallace: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5895013045
Miracle at Midway, Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5845695987
Monstrilio, Gerardo Samano Cordova: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6427661714
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Eric Hodgins: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3877875263
Mudd's Angels, J.A. Lawrence: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7305475883
Natives of Space, Hal Clement: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1036418510
Nautilus 90 North, William R. Anderson with Clay Blair, Jr.,: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6021655675
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate, M.E. Sarotte: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5083590697
Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plans to Change the Course of World War II, John J. Geoghegan: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2048502335
Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5100199693
Outbursts of Everett True, A.D. Condo and J.W. Raper, ed. Kevin I. Slaughter: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6846464152
Out of Space and Time, Clark Ashton Smith: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4269685373
Out There Where the Big Ships Go, Richard Cowper: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6864909557
Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island, John Wukovits: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5877122052
Pellucidar series, See beginning with At the Earth's Core
The Penultimate Truth, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3646567758
Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3992003255
Planets Three, Frederik Pohl: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/986232680
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3489521194
The Pocket Book of Dog Stories, Harold Berman, ed.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3511238215
Barsoom series, Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom series #1), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4027080520
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom series #2): Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4032978321
The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom series #3), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4042486090
Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars (Barsoom series #4 and #5), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4065456260
The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom series #6), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4068466285
A Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom series #7), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4077954927
The Smell of War: Lessons from the Battlefield, Roland Bartetzko: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4272202191
Swords of Mars (Barsoom series #8), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4081235256
Synthetic Men of Mars (Barsoom series #9), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4092929356
Llana of Gathol (Barsoom series #10), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4096842379
John Carter of Mars (Barsoom series #11), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4101243970
John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten (new Barsoom series), Geary Gravel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4471348983
Pstalemate, Lester del Rey: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1031264524
Raj Quartet, See beginning with The Jewel in the Crown
Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan R. Eller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1051331889
Red Devils over the Yalu: A Chronicle of Soviet Air Operations in the Korean War 1950-52, Igor Seidov: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5627990285
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2226874943
Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, See beginning with The Three-Body Problem
Restless Legs, Tabitha Ormiston-Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1260133793
Roadside Americana, Eric Peterson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4398260874
Robert A. Heinlein biographies, William J. Patterson
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve, William J. Patterson, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1186185286
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, William J. Patterson, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1222027415
Rocket to the Morgue, Anthony Boucher: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1022796955
Rolltown, Mack Reynolds: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7117290102
Route 66, Michael Karl Witzel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4409270533
Samurai!, Saburo Sakai, with Martin Caldin and Fred Saito: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5670594533
Solar Queen series, Andre Norton
Sargasso of Space (Solar Queen #1), Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6825326043
Plague Ship (Solar Queen #2), Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7176436636
Voodoo Planet (Solar Queen #2), Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7187958619
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3603326596
Sean Duffy series, See beginning with The Cold Cold Ground
Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Line with the Elite Warriors of SOG, John L. Plaster: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3717281759
Serpico, Peter Maas: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3881067318
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3499453751
Six Days of the Condor, James Grady: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5121741858
Slan, A.E. Van Vogt: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6844532658
The Smell of War: Lessons from the Battlefield, Roland Bartetzko: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4272202191
Solar Queen series, See beginning with Sargasso of Space
Soldier of Fortune, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4875159119
The Space Vampires, Colin Wilson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7117276035
Bernard Samson series, Len Deighton
Spy Hook (Bernard Samson #4), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4898366398
Spy Line (Bernard Samson #5), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4912264034
Spy Sinker (Bernard Samson #6), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5186594951
A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1097665436
Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books, Geoffrey Roberts: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5270435206
Star Trek series, James Blish
Star Trek, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7202180556
Star Trek 2, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7207577643
Star Trek 3, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7210427615
Star Trek 4, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7217976934
Star Trek 5, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7229407013
Star Trek 6, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7233523760
Star Trek 7, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7245568221
Star Trek 8, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7255774615
Star Trek 9, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7259489231
Star Trek 10, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7269079545
Star Trek 11, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7283883477
Star Trek 12, James Blish and J.A. Lawrence: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7302889399
Spock Must Die!, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7326296943
Star Trek series, Gene Roddenberry
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gene Roddenberry: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4275707784
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Vonda N. McIntyre: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4306182456
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6672725751
Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5295812289
Submarine!, Edward L. Beach: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6007308020
Sugar Street, Jonathan Dee: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6439403160
Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5664259249
Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War, Jeffrey Brooks: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5399248611
Thirty Second Over Tokyo, Ted W. Lawson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5717123553
Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy, Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem Remembrance of Earth's Past #1), Cixin Liu: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6582013339
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past #2), Cixin Liu: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6723902549
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3), Cixin Liu: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6793523786
Three From the Legion (The Legion of Space, The Cometeers, One Against the Legion, and Nowhere Near), Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/998322353
Tiki Pop: America Imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise, Sven Kirsten: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4381888230
Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3475197769
Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations Against the USSR, Curtis Peebles: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5178132311
Ubik, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3612618180
UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There, Garrett M. Graff: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6070859883
The Ugly American, William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1016746356
Undersea trilogy, Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
Undersea Quest (Undersea Trilogy #1), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/981489525
Undersea Fleet (Undersea Trilogy #2), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/985896201
Undersea City (Undersea Trilogy #3), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3487372853
Vietnam: A History, Stanley Karnow: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3837594605
The Vintage Rolex Datejust: Buyer's and Collector's Guide, 1945-1990, Thomas van Straaten: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4748202897
The Weapon Shops of Isher, A.E. van Vogt: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6882798839
We Who Survived, Sterling Noel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5406733940
When Worlds Collide series, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer
When Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2225388142
After Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2231438849
Who?, Algis Budris: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/986810102
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Observations about Race, revised ed., Beverly Daniel Tatum: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4349534795
Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint Exupery: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4148559786
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4359064501
Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America, Henry Kisor: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5426167177
Moreover, I have to confess that my attention to Goodreads really waxes and wanes. That is, sometimes I get on a great streak and am really good about doing reviews of the random things I happen to be reading. Other times I mean to, but I may get behind, and then I grow a little too stale on the piece and hence end up posting nothing—highly frustrating. And occasionally I just forget altogether, and it ends up being a year or two between reviews...
Oh, yes— And the chances of my doing a Goodreads review of anything by Ray Bradbury or Robert A. Heinlein, or any other author I have read for pleasure prior to 2013 or 2014 when I first got on the site, are just about zero. I suppose it could happen after a more recent reread, though—it did for some Philip K. Dick, come to think of it. But this definitely is not common.
However, my website helps me keep track of my writings, and my Goodreads reviews can be somewhat entertaining on occasion, so here goes anyway--
Abolishing the Taboo: Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961, Brian Madison Jones: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6097900349
The Abominations of Yondo, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5220700149
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, William Manchester: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6235193100
The Argosy Book of Adventure Stories, ed. Rogers Terrill: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4169900736
Jim Burns Art
The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal, Jim Burns: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6075153506
Lightship: Jim Burns, Master of SF Illustration, Jim Burns and Chris Evans: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6072630839
Pellucidar series, Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar series #1), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4496798510
Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #2), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4514371620
Tanar of Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #3), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4545529411
Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Pellucidar series #4), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4575368858
Back to the Stone Age (Pellucidar series #5), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4617612793
Land of Terror (Pellucidar series #6), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4658207410
Savage Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #7), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4746756993
The Axmann Conspiracy: The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It, Scott Andrew Selby: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2081645276
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Gregory "Pappy" Boyington: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5688232754
Barsoom, See beginning with A Princess of Mars
Beau Geste, P.C. Wren: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2062359734
Becoming Ray Bradbury, Jonathan R. Eller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1142232577
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, Frederick Kempe: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2053455709
Bernard Sampson series, See beginning with Spy Hook
The Big Clock, Kenneth Fearing: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3463008583
The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America, Miranda Devine: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7094400296
Black Tuesday Over Namsi: B-29s vs MiGs--The Forgotten Air Battle of the Korean War, 23 October 1951, Earl J. McGill: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5654617862
Blitzed: Drug Use in Nazi Germany, Norman Ohler: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3594421634
John Masters Memoirs
Bugles and a Tiger: A Volume of Autobiography, John Masters: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6351392797
The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative, John Masters: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6390188632
Pilgrim Son: A Personal Odyssey, John Masters: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6413394797
Burma Sahib, Paul Theroux: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6320347571
Burmese Days, George Orwell: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6293483531
The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1281337606
California Crazy: American Pop Architecture, Jim Heimann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4394920670
Carry On, Jeeves! (Jeeves series), P.G. Wodehouse: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4836376169
The City on the Edge of Forever, Harlan Ellison: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7318604722
Classic American Streamliners, Mike Schafer and Joe Welsh: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5473749497
Sean Duffy series, Adrian McKinty
The Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy series #1), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4764191008
I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Sean Duffy series #2), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4793293297
In the Morning I'll Be Gone (Sean Duffy series #3), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4802693877
Gun Street Girl (Sean Duffy series #4), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4820671865
Rain Dogs (Sean Duffy series #5), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4847884063
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Sean Duffy series #6), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4861645790
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2265684448
Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/985909012
Crimson Sky: The Air Battle for Korea, John R. Bruning, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5642210188
The Crossroads of Time, Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3481008236
Cyborg, Martin Caidin: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7138879513
Damey & Grandpa Tutor, Larry Webb: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/980617335
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5305654136
The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1072845438
The Dirty Dozen, E.M. Nathanson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4782264020
The Dog Stars, Peter Heller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3678748346
Drawings from the Gulag, Danzig Baldaev: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4336026507
The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3508149187
The Eternal Champion, Michael Moorcock: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4110643242
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Avi Loeb: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3837751967
Falling, T.J. Newman: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4104875178
The Familiar Dark, Amy Engel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3516753722
Fate Is the Hunter, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4123492955
Fatherland, Robert Harris: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1502761931
Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe series #1), Rex Stout: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4822566402
Firefox, Craig Thomas: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3580047821
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3630749342
Genius Loci and Other Stories, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5152344429
Glory for Me, MacKinlay Kantor: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3589568071
God Is My Co-Pilot, Robert L. Scott, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5709965396
Grammar without Tears, Tabitha Ormiston-Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1142035368
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4017483836
Hide and Seek: The Untold Story of Cold War Naval Espionage, Peter Huchthausen and Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3567879637
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5043973689
The High and the Mighty, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4886305128
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6809904990
Hold On!, Peter Darley: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/995034110
The Human Stain, Philip Roth: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1555242731
The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3574369336
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3499619641
I Killed Stalin, Sterling Noel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5351513830
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, A.T. Mahan: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5997355211
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1034719193
The IPCRESS Files, Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5330848863
Raj Quartet, Paul Scott
The Jewel in the Crown (Raj Quartet #1), Paul Scott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6528870729
The Day of the Scorpion (Raj Quartet #2), Paul Scott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6568688063
The Towers of Silence (Raj Quartet #3), Paul Scott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6611131197
A Division of the Spoils (Raj Quartet #4), Paul Scott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6644268799
Julia, Sandra Newman: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5942783241
KG 200, J.D. Gilman and John Clive: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5366603023
Khrushchev Remembers, Nikita Khrushchev, edited and with commentary by Edward Crankshaw and translated by Strobe Talbot: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6277815685www.goodreads.com/review/show/6277815685
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3542154543
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, Miranda Devine: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4560746244
Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3864831853
The Legion of Space, Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/988149834
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity, Axton Betz-Hamilton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6449013418
Listen! The Wind, Anne Morrow Lindbergh: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5739167981
The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1147722336
The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1042538401
Lost Worlds, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5120107454
Make Room! Make Room!, Harry Harrison: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3886675205
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1009625789
A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. Weinbaum: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1028584906
Masters of Time, A.E. van Vogt: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6887105663
A Matter of Morals, Joseph Gies: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1282859634
Medal of Honor: Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present, Allen Mikaelian with commentary by Mike Wallace: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5895013045
Miracle at Midway, Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5845695987
Monstrilio, Gerardo Samano Cordova: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6427661714
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Eric Hodgins: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3877875263
Mudd's Angels, J.A. Lawrence: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7305475883
Natives of Space, Hal Clement: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1036418510
Nautilus 90 North, William R. Anderson with Clay Blair, Jr.,: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6021655675
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate, M.E. Sarotte: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5083590697
Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plans to Change the Course of World War II, John J. Geoghegan: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2048502335
Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5100199693
Outbursts of Everett True, A.D. Condo and J.W. Raper, ed. Kevin I. Slaughter: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6846464152
Out of Space and Time, Clark Ashton Smith: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4269685373
Out There Where the Big Ships Go, Richard Cowper: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6864909557
Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island, John Wukovits: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5877122052
Pellucidar series, See beginning with At the Earth's Core
The Penultimate Truth, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3646567758
Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3992003255
Planets Three, Frederik Pohl: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/986232680
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3489521194
The Pocket Book of Dog Stories, Harold Berman, ed.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3511238215
Barsoom series, Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom series #1), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4027080520
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom series #2): Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4032978321
The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom series #3), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4042486090
Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars (Barsoom series #4 and #5), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4065456260
The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom series #6), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4068466285
A Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom series #7), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4077954927
The Smell of War: Lessons from the Battlefield, Roland Bartetzko: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4272202191
Swords of Mars (Barsoom series #8), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4081235256
Synthetic Men of Mars (Barsoom series #9), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4092929356
Llana of Gathol (Barsoom series #10), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4096842379
John Carter of Mars (Barsoom series #11), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4101243970
John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten (new Barsoom series), Geary Gravel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4471348983
Pstalemate, Lester del Rey: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1031264524
Raj Quartet, See beginning with The Jewel in the Crown
Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan R. Eller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1051331889
Red Devils over the Yalu: A Chronicle of Soviet Air Operations in the Korean War 1950-52, Igor Seidov: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5627990285
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2226874943
Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, See beginning with The Three-Body Problem
Restless Legs, Tabitha Ormiston-Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1260133793
Roadside Americana, Eric Peterson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4398260874
Robert A. Heinlein biographies, William J. Patterson
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve, William J. Patterson, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1186185286
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, William J. Patterson, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1222027415
Rocket to the Morgue, Anthony Boucher: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1022796955
Rolltown, Mack Reynolds: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7117290102
Route 66, Michael Karl Witzel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4409270533
Samurai!, Saburo Sakai, with Martin Caldin and Fred Saito: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5670594533
Solar Queen series, Andre Norton
Sargasso of Space (Solar Queen #1), Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6825326043
Plague Ship (Solar Queen #2), Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7176436636
Voodoo Planet (Solar Queen #2), Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7187958619
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3603326596
Sean Duffy series, See beginning with The Cold Cold Ground
Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Line with the Elite Warriors of SOG, John L. Plaster: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3717281759
Serpico, Peter Maas: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3881067318
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3499453751
Six Days of the Condor, James Grady: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5121741858
Slan, A.E. Van Vogt: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6844532658
The Smell of War: Lessons from the Battlefield, Roland Bartetzko: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4272202191
Solar Queen series, See beginning with Sargasso of Space
Soldier of Fortune, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4875159119
The Space Vampires, Colin Wilson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7117276035
Bernard Samson series, Len Deighton
Spy Hook (Bernard Samson #4), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4898366398
Spy Line (Bernard Samson #5), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4912264034
Spy Sinker (Bernard Samson #6), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5186594951
A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1097665436
Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books, Geoffrey Roberts: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5270435206
Star Trek series, James Blish
Star Trek, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7202180556
Star Trek 2, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7207577643
Star Trek 3, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7210427615
Star Trek 4, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7217976934
Star Trek 5, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7229407013
Star Trek 6, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7233523760
Star Trek 7, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7245568221
Star Trek 8, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7255774615
Star Trek 9, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7259489231
Star Trek 10, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7269079545
Star Trek 11, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7283883477
Star Trek 12, James Blish and J.A. Lawrence: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7302889399
Spock Must Die!, James Blish: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7326296943
Star Trek series, Gene Roddenberry
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gene Roddenberry: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4275707784
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Vonda N. McIntyre: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4306182456
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6672725751
Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5295812289
Submarine!, Edward L. Beach: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6007308020
Sugar Street, Jonathan Dee: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6439403160
Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5664259249
Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War, Jeffrey Brooks: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5399248611
Thirty Second Over Tokyo, Ted W. Lawson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5717123553
Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy, Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem Remembrance of Earth's Past #1), Cixin Liu: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6582013339
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past #2), Cixin Liu: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6723902549
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3), Cixin Liu: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6793523786
Three From the Legion (The Legion of Space, The Cometeers, One Against the Legion, and Nowhere Near), Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/998322353
Tiki Pop: America Imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise, Sven Kirsten: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4381888230
Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3475197769
Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations Against the USSR, Curtis Peebles: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5178132311
Ubik, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3612618180
UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There, Garrett M. Graff: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6070859883
The Ugly American, William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1016746356
Undersea trilogy, Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
Undersea Quest (Undersea Trilogy #1), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/981489525
Undersea Fleet (Undersea Trilogy #2), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/985896201
Undersea City (Undersea Trilogy #3), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3487372853
Vietnam: A History, Stanley Karnow: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3837594605
The Vintage Rolex Datejust: Buyer's and Collector's Guide, 1945-1990, Thomas van Straaten: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4748202897
The Weapon Shops of Isher, A.E. van Vogt: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6882798839
We Who Survived, Sterling Noel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5406733940
When Worlds Collide series, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer
When Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2225388142
After Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2231438849
Who?, Algis Budris: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/986810102
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Observations about Race, revised ed., Beverly Daniel Tatum: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4349534795
Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint Exupery: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4148559786
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4359064501
Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America, Henry Kisor: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5426167177
