This book is like climbing a mountain, a bit slow to build in spots, very technical, full of detail, but worth the effort at the end. Dan Simmons has created a another “historical fiction” novel that is so close to the truth and history that you question if it isn’t in fact a true piece of history. He did this with The Terror a few years back which was a tale of the Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage – based on historical fact […]
Hard Luck Hank – The Galaxy’s Nicest Thug
Hard Luck Hank Rules! -Fun times. I listened to the audible version of this book and the narrator basically did the character using a “Patrick Warburton” voice (The Tick) . Hilarious. Hank is a “Class 4 Mutant”, lives on the space station of “Bellvaille” and is about 300 years old, give or take . His favorable mutation is that you can’t kill him; you can shoot him, stab him, squash him and he heals every time. Hank is big old enforcer thug for the […]
Applied Computational Demonology for Fun and Entertainment
From the introduction to the hardcopy version: …”Imagine a world where speaking or writing words can literally and directly make things happen, where getting one of those words wrong can wreak unbelievable havoc, but where with the right spell you can summon immensely powerful agencies to work your will. ….Welcome to the IT department”…. Welcome to the IT department of the Laundry, a secret agency of the British government that exists to protect the unknowing public from all things eldritch, squamous and tentacled. […]
My Life as a White Trash Zombie
Awesome book – totally. First saw this at “Zombie Runner” coffee shop in Palo Alto on California Avenue….started to read it and had to have it. Our WTZ is Angel Crawford – pill popping, high school drop out with a record. Lives in Louisiana with her drunk ass dad in a house with a driveway made of crushed beer cans. Hangs out with her stoner, trailer dwelling boyfriend Randy and works a McJob a the gas and grab. Until one night, she […]
White Trash Zombies Rule
Fourth in the series of the White Trash Zombie books. These are hilarious. I listened to this one on Audible. Our heroine – Angel Crawford – is indeed a white trash zombie. Backstory – 3 books back, she was a loser white trash drug addict, got picked up by the wrong guy in a bar, ended up in a (what should have been fatal) car crash and somehow survived with no injuries whatsoever. Took her a while to figure out that someone […]
California Bones – Not your usual heist novel
California Bones – Urban Fantasy – I bought this after I met the author at the San Diego Comic Con panel on Urban Fantasy. I had been thinking of reading it for a couple of weeks, and actually meeting the author and getting his autograph pushed me to get a “hardcopy” rather than a digital version. So this is basically a heist novel, albeit a very unusual one. Takes place in an alternate version of California. In this California, magic is carried in […]
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