Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About jmsudar

CBR15 Participant
CBR17 Participant
CBR17 Levels

JM Sudar dreams of someday walking into a bookstore and seeing a book of his own for sale. After hearing his wife lament that she forgot to write her Cannonball review _again_, he decided to pick up a controller and give it a try himself.

jmsudar's Reviews:

The Shadow Over Innsmouth – Manga

The Shadow Over Innsmouth - Manga by HP Lovecraft, Gou Tanabe, Zack Davisson

by Leave a Comment

I picked this up alongside At the Mountains of Madness parts 1 and 2 at Comic Con recently. I hadn’t looked twice at this adaptation but ran into the translator and got to pick these up, signed. Totally worth it. While Michael Beringer’s adaptation is probably my favorite visual Lovecraft adaptation due to the style, the art in these manga is detailed, imaginative, and horrifying. The Shadow over Innsmouth details a young man out on his travels after coming of age (because apparently in spite of […]

Fugitive Telemetry

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

by 1 Comment

Fugitive Telemetry is Murderbot’s bottle episode. Murderbot is adjusting to life within PreservationAux, and has been asked for its help in judging the extent of a security incident. Murderbot is forced to interact with people who know about sec units but haven’t had the chance to learn about this sec unit yet, and as such there is the usual prejudice and the attempts to make it seem like just a killing machine, which it also thinks it is, after all. This book is primarily just an […]

Network Effect

Network Effect by Martha Wells

by 1 Comment

When my wife and I were reading Murderbot together for the first time, I couldn’t wait to get to Network effect. I knew it was a novel, so we’d get more content, I knew it had more ART and Murderbot, and I knew it was, just generally speaking, more of the storylines I’d become completely addicted to. It held up for the second readthrough. There’s a moment in this novel where one of the PreservationAux colonists is listening to Murderbot and ART angrily snipe at one […]

All Systems Red

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

by Leave a Comment

All Systems Red is the first book in the Murderbot Diaries, by a huge margin the most enjoyable sci-fi I’ve read in the past few years. It is simple, an easy read, hilarious, and since this is my second time through, holds up on a re-read. Murderbot is a SecUnit, a cyborg made from robotic parts and cloned tissues for use on the Corporation Rim, a loose conglomerate of corporate entities at the edge of space-faring civilization. Most corporations are complete assholes, with frequent use […]

Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

by Leave a Comment

Exit Strategy is the second of my two least favorite Murderbot stories, but I really need to put an asterisk on that because they’re still outstanding. Overall, I would say this one is the worst because it meanders the most. There’s a lot of Murderbot sitting around thinking about security protocols, and honestly that works, but it’s my “least” favorite because it has to stand in comparison to so much other incredibly good stuff. Murderbot returns to HaveRatton station just in time to be almost […]

Rogue Protocol

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

by Leave a Comment

The two middle Murderbot diaries, Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy, are the ones I tend to have the least to say about. They remain as good as ever, with the character continuing to evolve and figure out what makes Murderbot Murderbot, but they still feel like filler to a small degree. In Rogue Protocol, Murderbot heads to an abandoned GrayCris terraforming platform so that it can figure out what the full extent of GrayCris’ illegal activities encompass, with the purpose of sending the data to Dr. […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo