Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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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.

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Berserk Deluxe 14

Berserk Deluxe 14 by Kentaro Miura

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Boy oh boy, I’m going to have to start pointing to a different author for Berserk soon. Kentaro Miura passed a couple years ago, and it was only recently decided by the publisher that the comic would continue, penned by his understudy. My dearest hope is they focus on wrapping up all the hanging storylines as quickly as possible, wrapping things up nicely with a succinct and satisfying bow, as opposed to drawing it out and risking the entire production. Either way, given that the […]

A City on Mars

A City on Mars by Zach & Kelly Wienersmith

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If you don’t know what Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is, you’re missing out on one of the best and most enduring webcomics that isn’t XKCD. Both are hilarious, science and philosophy-based explorations of humanity’s weirdness by clever, curious people. Naturally, once I heard the Wienersmith’s were taking their brilliant, beautiful minds to look at space exploration, I signed right up. A City on Mars starts with a simple premise: every pop sci book on space exploration was written by an evangelist, and thus hand waves […]

The Keep

The Keep by F. Paul Wilson

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The Keep is one of my favorite terrible movies. It’s legit bad, makes no sense, all vibes no brakes. In it, a group of German soldiers are tasked with guarding a Romanian pass which holds a strange keep. The keep is built backwards, with the biggest stones on the inside, as though it’s meant to hold something in, not out. Also the walls are peppered with crosses. What could go wrong! So naturally, someone picks at a cross, a demon comes out, and all hell […]

Breaking Twitter

Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich

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Of course I reached for the brand new Elon Musk takedown the moment it hit shelves. Breaking Twitter is an expose of Elon Musk’s doomed takeover of the social media site, told in a narrative style either with direct insider information from people who were present for the takeover, or with direct observation of Elon in order to frame bits from his perspective. First off, if you’ve been following the Twitter takeover closely, there isn’t a ton of new information here. Most of the latest […]

Soichi

Soichi by Junji Ito

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The Soichi stories are among my least favorite Junji Ito works. They’re fine, they certainly have his excellent art style, but the main character is just too weird to like. Soichi is a strange member of an overly-indulgent family, chewing on nails and trying literally to curse his siblings. That’s weird. Just generally unpleasant. We’re not really supposed to sympathize with Soichi, but even with him not being explicitly a good guy it’s unpleasant to spend time with Soichi as the main character. Part of […]

On Writing

On Writing by Stephen King

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I try to read On Writing at least once a year. It inspires me, it reminds me of why I enjoy writing as a hobby, and yes, because I’m a vain little person, I see parallels in the way Stephen King feels about writing to the way I feel about writing. On Writing is Stephen King’s attempt at a writing how-to. He begins with some delicious autobiography, talking about trouble he and his brother got into, making it clear how much his mother struggled to […]



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