This week’s Inquisition comes direct from my latest obsession, which would be the Battlestar Galactica season 1 and 2 dvd’s that The Main Event lent me. All I really knew beforehand was that it was a remake of an older 70’s tv show which I’d seen a re-run or two of and was generally disinterested […]
Review: Feet of Clay
Title: Feet of Clay Author: Terry Pratchett Year of Publication: 1996 Genre: Fantasy Length: 288 pages (hardcover version) Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price Review: Feet of Clay takes place on Discworld, a world in which Pratchett has written at least 35 novels. This particular book is part of the City Watch group (there […]
Review: The Time Traveler's Wife
Title: The Time Traveler’s Wife Author: Audrey Niffenegger Year of Publication: 2004 Genre: Science Fiction Length: 536 pages Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife is hard to describe in so many words. When you break it down to it’s basic parts, it’s not much more than a tragic love […]
Review: Eragon
Title: Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) Author: Christopher Paolini Year of Publication: 2004 Genre: Fantasy Length: (I sold my copy, so I don’t have anything to check. Probably at least 300 pages) Rating: 2/5 – Good practice for focusing the eyes on letters* Review: A generic tale of a boy and his dragon. I could really […]
Review: His Dark Materials (a trilogy)
Title: His Dark Materials – Book One: The Golden Compass, Book Two: The Subtle Knife, Book Three: The Amber Spyglass Author: Philip Pullman Year of Publication: 1995 Genre: Fantasy Length: Each paperback book has between 335 and 465 pages. Rating: 4.5/5 – Worth paying full price. Review: His Dark Materials is a trilogy that should […]
YouTube of the Week: Long Time Ago, Middle Earth Edition
Another somewhat long one, 8:30. Shot like the series of “making of” interviews previewing… George Lucas directiong Lord of the Rings.
Review: Oryx and Crake
Title: Oryx and Crake Author: Margaret Atwood Year of Publication: 2003 Genre: Science Fiction/Fiction Length: The paperback version has 443 pages. Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price. Review: Oryx and Crake is one of two novels that I have read by Margaret Atwood that are about a utopian future turned to dystopia, the other […]
YouTubes of the Week: Who Do Cthluhu? You Do Cthulhu Edition
Because I cannot deny the bleatings of the eldritch monster-squid that rules beneath the waves, and since Halloween falls on YouTube Tuesday… a squamous mass of videos starring everyone’s favorite tentacled horror: Cthulhu! This first one is my favorite, but more after the jump.
Review: Wicked
Title: Wicked – The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Author: Gregory Maguire Year of Publication: 1995 Genre: Fantasy/Fiction Length: 406 pages; small font, large book, not a quick read. Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price. Review: The Wizard of Oz is a classic story, whether you saw the film […]
Very Short Stories
Andy Looney enjoys writing stories exactly 55 words long and calls them Nanofiction. Well, Wired took the concept every further and asked a number of famous authors (mainly from Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Comics) and asked them to write 6 word short stories. They cite an idea from Ernest Hemmingway as their inspiration. You can […]
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