Some books you buy ’cause you’ve heard a lot of good things about them and some books you buy simply because the cover was rad and the blurbs were awesome. A blurb (if you didn’t already know) is a sentence provided by a famous author or such like printed on the book cover that pimps [...]
Archive for October, 2007
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Who is this Sapkowski fellow then, you ask? He doesn’t exactly sound like the sort of author I usually read, but let me tell you one thing right from the start: get used to it, cos this polish bloke can write your socks off. He’s been a bestseller in Poland for over 20 years and [...]
Doctor Who Series 3 (David Tennant)
This was a very peculiar season. It starts off really slow with the longest streak of bad, consecutive episodes in history and then it suddenly jumps out with the single best Doctor Who episode I’ve ever seen. It ends on a higher note than what it began with, but overall this was very disappointing season. [...]
Awesomeness Alert
I picked up Andrzej Sapkowski’s “The Last Wish” this afternoon and haven’t been able to put it down. Why?
‘Cause its got (amongst a shitload of other cool characters) a promiscuous, sword-master terrorist princess that’s built upon the stereotype of Snow White that can kick some serious protagonist ass with her death squad of assassins and [...]
The Affirmation by Christopher Priest
I’ve been wanting to read a second novel by Priest Ever since I picked up his brilliant “The Separation” while I was on a vacation to sunny Italy, but every time my hand was reaching out for something interesting it came back holding a newer and, almost always, inferior piece of fiction. This injustice [...]
A Clockwork Orange
This must be the beautifully weird and totally insane movie I’ve ever seen. Directed by the masterful Stanley Kubrick, I had been looking forward to seeing it ever since I read a review of it by Terje, and it surely didn’t disappoint.
“A Clockwork Orange” is based on a classic SF novel and must be one [...]
Entourage Season 2
Now this was more like it. It’s worked its way through almost all the birth pains of the first season and started to act like real, live person. Its plots have more twists and we finally get to see Ari Gold all on his own. I’d still like to see it become even more independent [...]
The Sinister Sect of Superior Sinners
A threat like no other has arisen in a world very much like our own. Four high-school kids that hung out so much that they got the humorous nickname, “The Fantastic Four” have returned to wreck havoc upon the very existence of life. They been planning their gruesome revenge ever since a bottle of radioactive [...]
The New Nick of the Blogger Formerly Known as Lotta
And the new nickname is:
Amras Elensar
This has been something that’s been long in coming. It was Terje Phlegmont Mendoza who gave me the nick “Lotta”, as an abbreviation of one of my forum nicks, “Lothair Mantelar”. It’s stuck with me ever since and I can’t say that I haven’t grown quite fond of it. [...]
A Word I’d Like To Use More Often…
“Defenestrate”
Look behind the cut to see what it means (and don’t pretend that you already do)
-
Meta
Posts