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Review of Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
My word, this book is dull. I had high hopes for this one, seeing that it appears in so many best-of lists. Even a Jeremy Irons performance on the audiobook (who was pretty awesome, I must say) could...
View ArticleSherlock, the new-ish BBC TV Series
Just watched the first season of Sherlock (all of 3 episodes, albeit they are 1.5 hours long each). As a fan, I’m always wary of remakes or retcons, and the most visible recent effort is the Downey...
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Review of Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami & Masayuki Taguchi
I learned about Battle Royale many years ago, but was in a sense put off by the premise of having schoolchildren kidnapped and isolated on an island somewhere, and forced to kill each other to...
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Review of Herzog, by Saul Bellow
This isn’t an easy book to read, and it isn’t easy to write about. This is usually the sort of book that I stay away from in the best of days, as it didn’t exactly promise to be an exciting ride. The...
View ArticleAnother Webmail service: Outlook.com
I like the fact that there are so many implementations of email, as companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook all trying to rethink email and how we communicate. Emailing has always been important,...
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Big Bad Wolf 2013
Much smaller haul than my previous years. It’s buying fatigue, I suppose, due to my burgeoning library and growing list of Kindle books, Audible and Comixology buys. Can’t keep up with the consumption,...
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Currently Reading: Tarnsman of Gor
This book comes with a formidable reputation, it is shrouded in mystique, danger and a slight whiff of naughty things. Almost done, and it is, uhm, a little over the top. More later. Maybe. Because I...
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Quickie: Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut
One of the best books I’ve read. Fantastic. I had such a hard time trying to pick a book to read in my list of Audible titles after finishing Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and I thought I wanted...
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Review of The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
There is a sense of the mythical about this story. Rereading it after many years, I found the story very simple and direct, without the many-tentacled subplots that plague many other graphic novels...
View ArticleScariest Book I’ve Read So Far
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank only very recently entered my radar. Not that I’d learn all there is to learn about the giants of SF, but given the subject matter of the book I was surprised this did not...
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