Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Billy and the Beast by Eli Easton

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Eli Easton is the pen name of Jane Jensen a game designer and writer who helmed one of the more successful Sierra adventure game series, Gabriel Knight. She is also somewhat blamed for the death of adventure games due to a specific puzzle in Gabriel Knight 3 and the fact that it was the last adventure game released by Sierra. This is a shame mostly due to Jane Jensen being A. one of the only female game designers who directed her own series of games […]

A piece of pop culture history

The Making of Prince of Persia Journals 1985-1993 by Jordan Mechner

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A few facts The first video game I ever played was Prince of Persia, I was six years old. My school had a bunch of IBM computers which you could use (after finishing homework) and the only game that actually worked on them was Prince of Persia. Unsurprisingly I never got to actually play it very often (or at all) because somehow the boys always got access to the computers before anyone else could. I did manage to play it one time, and never managed […]

Warm Fuzzy Feelings

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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I have been very vocal in the last few months on the fact that the current cultural zeitgeist is that dark equal deep and that the entertainment we consume has no place left for complex emotions like joy, sweetness and even melancholy (the good kind). This was further aggravated by the discourse around The Last of Us II, and how it forces the player to commit cruel acts for the sake of trying to create a complex story.  I also spent most of the last […]

Aged but in an unexpected way

Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins

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In an earlier review (for Hamlet on the Holodeck) I mentioned that new media books tend to age rapidly and somehow become irrelevant while being written. Convergence Culture is both a prime example of it but not in the way I expected it to. Convergence culture is the combination of different media and the creation of new forms of expressions and new forms of media. Specifically, it looks at how corporate culture and fan culture interact in the 21st century, and how the internet changed […]

“Death was for-the other people.”

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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All I could think about while reading this book was the Amy Cooper of the world. Those “nice” liberal folks, who are willing to destroy (and potentially kill) another human, for something as slight as getting asked to leash their dog in a place that requires it.  I kept thinking about the banality of it all. The story, in case you are not familiar with the plot and the numerous adaptation of it, centers around ten individuals who are invited by the mysterious Mr. Ulick […]

Sometimes a book is just meh

Cronin's Key by N.R. Walker

Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker

Cronin's Key III by N.R. Walker

Kennard's Story by N.R. Walker

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For obvious reasons, I spent the last two months dealing with constant low-grade anxiety that occasionally really tries to reach full panic mode. This means that my ability to concentrate on anything substantial has been severely affected. So I’ve spent quite a bit of time just engaging with lighter entertainment like romance books and reality shows.  This is probably why I actually read this full series despite the fact that the most I can say about it are that those books are the definition of […]



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