November Summary

November’s Reviews: The Towers of Midnight by Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan The House of Lost Souls by F. G. Cottam I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore The Mark of Nerath by Bill Slavicsek Terror by Dan Simmons In the coming months I’m going to work a bit harder on reading on my nook. [...]

Review: Terror by Dan Simmons

Terror: A Novel Dan Simmons Little, Brown and Co., 2007 Dan Simmons has always been an author interested in history and literature.  This interest is present in Hyperion, in relation to the titan, the Canterbury Tales,  and British poet John Keats; important in Illium and Olympos which mashes together elements of The Tempest and The [...]

Review: The Mark of Nerath by Bill Slavicsek

When it was revealed that with the advent of 4th Edition that the newest edition of Dungeons and Dragons would be abandoning the setting of Greyhawk for its stock setting there was some outcry amongst fans.  Not much, given that Wizards’ utilization of Greyhawk was, to put it mildly, sort of half-assed anyway it didn’t [...]

VTT is Coming!

D&D Virtual Table: http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/26286405/The_Dungeons__Dragons_Virtual_Table— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 18, 2010 Also…Twitter Blackbird Pie is pretty neat!

On Dragon Age 2

It’s starting to look like Dragon Age: Origins was something of a swan song.  The last hurrah from a publisher whose bread and butter was the in-depth computer RPG.  That is hyperbole…at least to a certain extent.  Recent announcements from Bioware as to the changes in Dragon Age II, namely that you are playing a [...]

Review: I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

I Am Number Four Pittacus Lore Harper, 2010 When I first caught the trailer for the film version of I Am Number Four I was excited to learn that it was based on a book. Reviews I encountered frequently referred to I Am Number Four (which has a pretty awesome title) as sci-fi; something of [...]

Review: The House of Lost Souls by F. G. Cottam

The House of Lost Souls F G Cottam Thomas Dunne, 2009 Yes, October is gone but I’m still finishing up with some scary books that took me a bit longer to read than I intended.  The first of those, The House of Lost Souls, is a recent entry to the haunted house genre.  My initial [...]

Review: The Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

The Towers of Midnight Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson Tor, 2010 Reading The Towers of Midnight, the 13th and penultimate volume of The Wheel of Time, one thing becomes glaringly obvious: the final three volumes could never, ever, have been one book. In fact we are probably lucky that we are getting only three. In [...]

Comic Thoughts: Superman Earth One

If you had cornered the 12-year-old me and asked him if he liked Superman, he would have likely responded with a derisive laugh.  For what it is worth back then I certainly enjoyed the spectacle of the Death of Superman and the following Reign of the Supermen, but I never would ever in a million [...]

October Summary

Early October with the sudden and unexpected hacking of my gmail account (then used to send out email for a modified 419 scam) scared me away from the internet for a bit which slowed both my reading and my posting here. I’m slowly coming back now and managed to kick out quite a few reviews [...]