Saturday, August 12, 2023
Fangs (by Sarah Andersen) I think this maybe the first "comic" book that I have written about in the book-club section of the website. Fangs started life as a web-comic on a website that everyone except me has heard of called Tapas.io. Fangs is about a vampire and a werewolf who date. It’s …Monday, July 31, 2023
Yes, I am aware of Mr Gibson's opus. This book was published in 2003. William Gibson wrote it (I know, Blowing your mind with FACTS!) The last time I read a new William Gibson novel was about 15 years go. Maybe more. It's odd to me that I don't seek out more of his work considering that Neuromancer …Thursday, July 13, 2023
As spoiler free as I am able to be. I have not before ready any Rysa Walker. I didn't even know who she was until I stumbled over this book when searching good-reads for recommendations. Her writing style is wonderfully verbose when required by more sparse as the action set in. A literary tool that …Tuesday, October 18, 2022
I love this novel, I think its one of Robert A Heinlein’s finest offerings. I have wrote about it in great depth in the past, but were only here to talk about the first line today. “Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith." Once upon a time is a …Sunday, July 31, 2022
Storm Front (Dresden Files 1) by Jim Butcher. In my discord group there is a room (are they called rooms?) called #book_club where us bookish folks exchange recommendations and thoughts on, you guessed it... Books! It was there that someone reminded me about the Dresden files. It had previously been …Friday, March 25, 2022
The Kaiju Preservation Society (by John Scalzi) The Kaiju Preservation Society is the most fun thing I have read in a long time. It is literally joy, in the form of a book. John Scalzi himself writes a little letter to the readers at the end, and he refers to it as the book equivalent of a pop song. …Thursday, November 4, 2021
Book: Dune Series: Dune (Series 1) Written by: Frank Herbert As much as this is out of character for me I am going to try and keep this brief. The reason is that there is no way anyone hasn't heard of this book and most people who give a shit will have already read it, or bounced on it already. I …Friday, July 16, 2021
Iliad (By Homer) I don't have the classical education required to actually write a review of the Iliad. I'll be honest, while I enjoyed it a great deal I'm pretty sure that I missed a lot of smart culturally loaded stuff that would have made it way better. I don't have very much in the way of …Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Deaths End (by Lui Cixin) Does it ever end? Death's End is the third instalment of 'The Three Body Problem' trilogy. The trilogy is not an easy read, its at times an oppressive slog. It's not cheerful. Its not bright and its not optimistic. But it is wonderfully well written. Obviously the credit …Monday, October 26, 2020
Benvari Mountains (By Michael Chatfield) For Emerilia! I accept that at this point, I'm hooked on this crap. Honestly. Its like the author is manipulating me some how. I know its easy reading LitRPG crap. But... God, I love these characters. I read this one, the second volume of the Emerilia series …Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The Trapped Mind Project (By Michael Chatfield) LitRPGS are my Jam! There is a category of book called the Literature Role Play Game (LitRPG) the basic premise is that a character is either stuck in a video game or reality is a video game and our hero figures it out. Some times its neither, its just …Friday, August 21, 2020
The City and the Stars (by Arthur C Clarke) Proof that big ideas can be boring. I don't read much Arthur C Clarke because I read Rama and it was boring. I'll call him ACC because I consistently forget how to spell Arthur. About a week ago, I decided that given how much I have recently been enjoying …Friday, August 21, 2020
Thou Art God. I have just finished it and I have things to say. Grok. The word "Grok" is the reason I read this book. The word Grok is taken to mean either "understand" or "know." You may have encountered this word if you spend any time with "high end" ass hats. You see, casually dropping a foreign …