The problem with falling in love with a series about humanity encountering dangerous alien goo is that the odds of all your favorite characters continuing to survive seem like they should go down as the fight goes on. So there was some anxiety starting this book, worrying that the four members of the crew of the Rocinante would continue to muddle through whatever the universe threw at them this time. I’m not going to spoil anything, I’m just telling you I was anxious. The alien […]
Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here!
A year or two I got back into comic books, and spent many a Saturday morning browsing garage sales and used book stores for anything that tickled my proverbial fancy. I bought a sealed grab bag of comics (gambling for collectors) and opened it up to find a few stray issues of Camelot 3000, a 1980s maxi-series written by Mike Barr and illustrated by Brian Bolland of The Killing Joke fame. The comic looked bananas, so in my weekly trips to the used book stores […]
Here’s My Quarter, I’m Ready to Play
I had heard great things about Ready Player One but for some reason I didn’t read when it first came out, I think I’ll blame it on pregnancy or a baby–I had 3 in 4 years and I think this was one of those years, because this really does seem like this would be something that I would be dying to read…so I must’ve been babyin’ it up or something. The buzz has since died down a little, but every single time I asked someone […]
The movie is better.
How often can you say you liked the movie better with a straight face? Not often. Here’s what the movie has going for it: 1. It’s fun and watchable. 2. It has pretty people in it. 3. Horrible things happen to those pretty people. 4. It takes parts of this book and ignores the rest. 5. It completely subverts the pro-military message of the book into a satire. 6. It has Neil Patrick Harris in it as a psychic. 7. It’s cheesy and violent and tries […]
Brandon Sanderson goes meta.
So the other day, B-Sand just decided to drop this surprise novella on us, and SURPRISE, it was surprising. I downloaded it immediately. I went into it blind, and at first, I wasn’t really very into it. It takes a little bit before you have your bearings enough to realize that no, this isn’t just yet another magical world he’s created with yet another magical system that didn’t seem all that distinct. I was particularly worried when his narrator (a first person narrator) starts talking […]
Far-reaching, but not OVERreaching
So hey! I really liked this. There probably isn’t much more to be said as this has been reviewed here many times by much more articulate people. That being said (as they say): First, something in Lollygagger’s review struck me: “What I think is interesting is that, for me, I didn’t get absorbed into the world. I was always aware of the fact that I was reading a book…” I felt that way, too, and have felt similarly about books in the past, but then, […]
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