The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

I just fin­ished read­ing The Ape Who Guards the Bal­ance, by Eliz­a­beth Peters. We got to see a bit of all our favorite char­ac­ters again and over­all was a decent read, but I have to admit that I pre­fer the ear­lier books in this series. Ram­ses & co. just aren’t quite as inter­est­ing to me as Peabody & Emer­son and unfor­tu­nately, Ram­ses & co. are tak­ing a big­ger and big­ger role in the series. I’ve heard that isn’t nec­es­sar­ily true in the remain­der of the series, but I’ll have to wait & see to find out.

I give this book: 3.5 out of 5 points.

The next book that I’ll be read­ing is Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Bal­anced Look at the Right. Nor­mally, I stick to fic­tion but this book got so much press that it intrigued me (plus some friends of mine have a copy that they’re lend­ing me). I hope to have fin­ished it in a cou­ple of weeks, but we’ll see.

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Mark is a data analyst for [REDACTED], currently residing in the Midwest. CoffeeBear is a place for him to spout off about whatever catches his fancy. In his spare time, Mark does a bit of webdev & design. To stalk him more effectively, try following him on Twitter.

19 March 2004 | 2:10PM | Comments (0)

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