Several weeks ago, I posted my last few reviews for the Official TBR Pile Challenge, and now it’s time for the wrap-up post. You can find my original list (with all linked reviews) here.

The books on the list ended up being a pretty mixed bag for me.

On the negative side:

• It confirmed that I really don’t like Philip K. Dick (even if his concepts are interesting)
• I still think that S. T. Joshi is incredibly pretentious (though he does know how to spot quality writing)
• An early 1980’s anthology provoked some nostalgia for my first forays into sci-fi, but I realized just how obnoxiously preachy a lot of it is.

On the plus side:

• I now want to read more by Georgio de Maria (The Twenty Days of Turin was excellently weird)
• I thoroughly enjoyed something completely different from my usual reading with Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine)
• Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism provided a much more nuanced version of some basic info I got in seminary.

The challenge was a nice “push” to read books that I kept putting off. Thanks to RoofBeamReader for hosting it!