This book is like climbing a mountain, a bit slow to build in spots, very technical, full of detail, but worth the effort at the end. Dan Simmons has created a another “historical fiction” novel that is so close to the truth and history that you question if it isn’t in fact a true piece of history. He did this with The Terror a few years back which was a tale of the Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage – based on historical fact […]
Hard Luck Hank – The Galaxy’s Nicest Thug
Hard Luck Hank Rules! -Fun times. I listened to the audible version of this book and the narrator basically did the character using a “Patrick Warburton” voice (The Tick) . Hilarious. Hank is a “Class 4 Mutant”, lives on the space station of “Bellvaille” and is about 300 years old, give or take . His favorable mutation is that you can’t kill him; you can shoot him, stab him, squash him and he heals every time. Hank is big old enforcer thug for the […]
Applied Computational Demonology for Fun and Entertainment
From the introduction to the hardcopy version: …”Imagine a world where speaking or writing words can literally and directly make things happen, where getting one of those words wrong can wreak unbelievable havoc, but where with the right spell you can summon immensely powerful agencies to work your will. ….Welcome to the IT department”…. Welcome to the IT department of the Laundry, a secret agency of the British government that exists to protect the unknowing public from all things eldritch, squamous and tentacled. […]
My Life as a White Trash Zombie
Awesome book – totally. First saw this at “Zombie Runner” coffee shop in Palo Alto on California Avenue….started to read it and had to have it. Our WTZ is Angel Crawford – pill popping, high school drop out with a record. Lives in Louisiana with her drunk ass dad in a house with a driveway made of crushed beer cans. Hangs out with her stoner, trailer dwelling boyfriend Randy and works a McJob a the gas and grab. Until one night, she […]