I have a fond recollection of reading Jurassic Park (pre-movie release) in college and being so caught up I read until dawn then hit Skyway Jacks for the Fisherman’s Special. The homefries! This will likely not enrapture you as much. It’s not bad, but much of it feels like ground covered by Rick Moranis. And Slither. (An amusing combination.) A group of ambitious graduate students from Cambridge is flown to Hawaii to be impressed and hopefully employed by Nanigen, a biotech firm with a psychotically […]
Fracking should be more fun
The Fracking King by James Browning Win Crwth, rhymes with Truth, loves Scrabble. He relates to the world through it. Poorly. This (YA? Do any youth actually know how to spell anymore?) story seemed full of potential. A boy with a Welsh name and parents who thought being bi-coastal would make him cosmopolitan (instead, he became “a hippie prig”) receives a scholarship to his 3rd boarding school. A scholarship sponsored by Dark Oil & Gas, which leads to far-too-many Darkside puns and nowhere near […]