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Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) My rat­ing: 4 out of 5. After a two year wait, Ms. Rowl­ing has finally released her lat­est book, Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6).1 It’s a bit shorter than her pre­vi­ous book but it’s qual­ity not quan­tity we’re after and the Half-Blood Prince deliv­ers. Rather […]

Tags: Books, HAL, reading, series

Read more | Comments (2) | Jul 25, 2005

Review: Wheel of Time

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

The Wheel of Time is a series of books by Robert Jor­dan. The series started out very promis­ingl, inter­est­ing char­ac­ters, good descrip­tions, bet­ter dia­log than I could ever come up with but the last cou­ple of books, Cross­roads of Twi­light in par­tic­u­lar, have failed to deliver on that early promise. The descrip­tion has been focused […]

Tags: Books, friends, problem, Reviews, series

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 25, 2005

Review: Just A Geek

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

On the advice of a friend (Pukka), a while back I began to read Wil Wheaton’s blog. Though I’d seen Stand By Me and Toy Sol­diers, my firmest mem­o­ries of Mr. Wheaton were of Wes­ley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Gen­er­a­tion. That was one of the few sci-fi shows that my par­ents were willing […]

Tags: Books, collection, fiction, geek, Links, Movies, reading, Reviews, Sci-fi, Snow

Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 10, 2004

Review: Ghosts in the Snow

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

A while back on the advice of AWelkin, I picked up a copy of Ghosts in the Snow. I read it, loved it, got dis­tracted and never wrote up any kind of review. A cou­ple of weeks later, I read again. I still loved it but I still didn’t write up a review of it. […]

Tags: family, fantasy, foreign, Love, Reviews, Snow, weekend, writing

Read more | Comments (3) | Dec 9, 2004

Review: Twilightners

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

This was a review that orig­i­nally I was some­what excited about writ­ing. The novella was writ­ten by a friend of my and self-published through Lulu.com. After he received a few copies of the printed book; he put one of my desk with a note thank­ing me for my opin­ions on a rough draft some months […]

Tags: coffee, HAL, Japan, money, moving, mystery, reading, Reviews, thoughts, water, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 8, 2004