Friends, I can’t do it. I’m throwing in the towel. I got to page 449 of 1000 (1000 pages for this dreck?!) and I’m done. And I’m counting this as a book because the time I wasted on this thing is going to be for something, dammit. For those of you that know the book I made it to Kvothe foiling the poisoning plot on the Maer in Vintas. So once again the brilliant, clever, handsome, talented and wise 16 year old boy wins the […]
The Expanded Universe is dead! Long live the Expanded Universe!
After Disney bought Lucasfilm and secured the rights to Star Wars they announced that new movies would be coming shortly. As I write this The Force Awakens is less than two months from release and based on a spectacular trailer the fandom hasn’t been this excited since The Phantom Menace was announced back in the late 90’s. At the same time Disney also revealed that the vast catalog of games, books, and comics that detailed the events after Return of the Jedi would no longer […]
Spooky story for a cold, winter night.
Mrs. Drablow has died so her estate must be settled. To that end, junior solicitor Arthur Kipps is dispatched from London to the far northern hamlet of Crythin Gifford to go through the deceased woman’s paper work. Mrs. Drablow resided at Eel Marsh House, a melancholy manor located in fog drenched seclusion inside a marsh that is only reachable during low tide. Shortly after arriving Arthur begins seeing a young woman dressed in black and he, rightly, soon ascertains she is a ghost. Numerous scary […]
Let’s just wait here a while, see what happens.
Who Goes There? is the basis for both the 1951 movie The Thing From Another World and the much more faithful adaptation, 1982’s John Carpenter’s The Thing, (the less said about the 2011 remake/prequel the better). The novella was published in 1938 and tells the story of American men stationed at Big Magnet research station in Antarctica. While investigating a magnetic anomaly the team discovers an alien ship and a frozen body. They bring the body back to their camp and after some discussion decide […]