As I turned the last page of this book late Sunday afternoon, I began to contemplate the glowing review I was going to write about it. I envisioned a vast array of hyperboles and interesting comparisons, and then I’d end it all with saying “Yes, this is definitely the début of the year. Read it [...]
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Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson
Ever since I picked up Ellis’ prose novel “Crooked Little Vein”, I couldn’t help but wonder what the fuck I had stumbled onto. That short and thoroughly disgusting little crime novel was unlike anything I’d ever read before, and not just in the sheer amount of craziness per page, but also in the way Ellis [...]
I Am Legend (No, Really!)
Will Smith movies aren’t generally what you’d call master pieces. Some of them actually suck quite a lot (i.e”Wild, Wild West”, “Bad Boys 2″), but they always manage to entertain me as a viewer, and that’s more than what I can of some other Big Movie Stars (yes, I’m looking at you, Tom Cruise, you [...]
Comic Books Galore, 22/2-08
You guys know me. I don’t read comic books, ’cause, well, I’m one o’ those literary types. I waved good bye to Donald Duck and McScrooge years ago and I can’t honestly say that I’ve missed them much. Since then I’ve been feeding my comic needs with the funnies and the occasional webcomic and that’s [...]
Jumper
What’s that smell?
Can’t you smell it?
My God, you must be nasally impaired or something; this film literally reeks of shit. And no wonder, what with it being the gigantic turd it is.
O.K, so maybe I’m laying it on a bit too thick. It’s isn’t as if “Jumper” is as big a turd of a movie [...]
The ‘Global Frequency’ Scandal
The people that run the TV channels are probably good people too. I mean, clearly they can’t all be evil freakin’ people filled with evil, squirming stuffing. That’d make no sense, now would it?
But you have to wonder when you look at the faiths of such gems like “Firefly”, “Veronica Mars” and “Angel” - all [...]
Oooh… Interesting!
Steve Brust, acclaimed sci-fi author, has written a Firefly novel. And that’s not all; it’s published under a Creative Commons license, thus making it legal and free to download and enjoy for every merry Browncoat in the ‘verse.
Shiny!
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
“Godly good gods, is “Altered Carbon” as kick-ass as it seems? I’m only asking since it seems so very unlikely that anything actually can kick this amount of ass and not make the world implode with its sheer awesomeness. Please gods, if you can take the time out of your day to get back to [...]
Halting State by Charles Stross
Book vs. Blogger: Who Wins?
I have been trying for a couple of years now to read at least one book by the biggest guns the industry. So far I’ve managed to line up and knock down authors such as Iain M. Banks, Gene Wolfe and Tim Powers, just to mention a few, and I have [...]
The Inferior by Peadar Ó Guilín
“The Inferior” is the Irishman’s Peadar Ó Guilín’s debut book and something quite out of the ordinary. It’s being marketed as a light science fiction novel for young adults, but when you get into it, you start to wonder when cannibalism became regular fare for us young folks… Of course, this books isn’t about cannibalism [...]
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