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Review: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

Note: This review is based upon an uncor­rected proof which I received via a give­way on GoodReads.
I don’t, as a rule, read True Crime; I do enjoy a good mys­tery. So when I saw this book being offered in a give­away over at GoodReads.com; I felt I just had to enter.  Then when I was […]

Tags: GoodReads, Reviews

Read more | Comments (0) | Jul 4, 2009

Reading List

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Quickie

If you hop over to my library page, you’ll notice my read­ing list has grown con­sid­er­ably. That’s because I just added in all the books we bought at the annual book sale held by our local pub­lic library. There’s far too many for me to fin­ish them all this year, but I hope […]

Tags: Books, Lists, reading

Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 2, 2007

The Dark Is Rising

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Movies

The Dark Is Ris­ing sequence is a set of 5 books1 writ­ten by Susan Cooper between 1965 and 1977. It is with­out ques­tion my favorite series of books from when I was younger and it is also now being made into a movie. More acu­rately, the sec­ond book in the series is being […]

Tags: Books, Movies, trailer

Read more | Comments (6) | Jul 30, 2007

Review: The Android’s Dream

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
My Rat­ing: 5 out of 5.
This book is a delight­fully wacky tale of one man’s fight to keep a very spe­cial sheep alive. In the process, our hero will have to fight off var­i­ous aliens and a few treach­er­ous vil­lain­ous humans. Scat­tered through­out The Android’s Dream are numer­ous one […]

Tags: Books, humour, Reviews, Scalzi, Sci-fi

Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 10, 2007

50 most significant sci-fi/fantasy novels

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life

This is a list of the 50 most sig­nif­i­cant sci­ence fiction/fantasy nov­els, 1953–2002, accord­ing to the Sci­ence Fic­tion Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, ital­i­cize those you started but never fin­ished and put an aster­isk beside the ones you loved.
1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
2. The Foun­da­tion Trilogy, […]

Tags: Books, fantasy, Sci-fi

Read more | Comments (1) | Nov 16, 2006

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