Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Review: The Android’s Dream

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 […]

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Review: Casino Royale

Casino Royale My rat­ing: 4.5 out of 5. Bah. I was plan­ning on writ­ing this up as a proper review but now I’m feel­ing tired so you’re going to get the bul­let point ver­sion. The lat­est install­ment in the James Bond film empire is Casino Royale. This also hap­pens to be the first install­ment of the […]

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50 most significant sci-fi/fantasy novels

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 […]

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Review: Valley of the Soul

Val­ley of the Soul My rat­ing: 5 out of 5. My first intro­duc­tion to the world of Fal­dor­rah came about 2 years ago. AWelkin knew the author and had an early copy of the first book, Ghosts in the Snow. My wife and I were over at AWelkin’s house for a visit, plan­ning to watch some […]

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Dear Liption, Your Tea Sucks

Dear Lip­ton Tea/Pepsi Partnership/Unilever1, Recently, my wife asked me to swing by the pet store and pick up some cat food. I did so after work and then stopped at a nearby con­vienence store to both fill up my gas tank and get some­thing to drink. Desir­ing some­thing that was not loaded down with sugar […]

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