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About lainiefig

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lainiefig's Reviews:

Ho Hum. So Much Nostalgia, So Much Meh.

January 17, 2016 by lainiefig 2 Comments

Do I love The Last Starfighter?  Do I need a new novel version of it?  Meh. Do I love 80’s games and remember them fondly?  Hell yeah, but even I got a bit tired of the references and repetitiveness in this book. This may be unrelated but these were my personal favorites: I listened to the audiobook of Armada because I so enjoyed the previous audiobook by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, also read by Wil Wheaton.  This novel also threw in a lot of nostalgia for […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: 80s, gaming, nostalgia, science fiction, spaceships

Love and Monsters in a New Age

January 6, 2016 by lainiefig 6 Comments

Wow, what a book to start the year.  The novel starts sort of mysteriously and I don’t want to spoil the mystery (though it’s been out a while now so you may know the mystery anyway–I think I knew before I bought the book, but I didn’t read it right away so I had forgotten by the time I picked it up again).  I will say it’s a post-apocalyptic novel–you get that within the first three pages, so that’s not a spoiler.  Also there are monsters and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Children, Education, horror, post apocalypse, science, woah

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