When I first saw the cover for this book, I thought it was just someone’s clever illustration of Darth Vader drawn in Shakespearean clothing in a wood-cut style. I thought it was very pretty. Then I noticed the amazon link and realized that it’s a real book. Ian Doescher rewrote Star Wars, the entire movie, in
If you had given me The Ocean at the End of the Lane with no cover or title page, without telling me anything about it at all, I’d still know it was a Neil Gaiman story. Out of all my favorite authors, Gaiman has the most comfortable, clever, and satisfying style of writing.
If you’re anything like me, you took a little extra time while reading George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire to visualize the passages in which he describes the foods of his world. He pays special attention to describing the meals in loving detail, encouraging my inner fatty to fantasize about shoveling all
I don’t want to run a halfway decent idea into the ground, but I had so much fun with the “Ten Books, A Thousand Pages” project (Part One is here, and Part Two here) that I had to do it again. So I present The Return of Ten Books, A Thousand Pages, wherein I pick
I had high hopes for Tracy Hickman’s Wayne of Gotham, but it never grabbed my attention. When I look at everything I was reading, or watching while I was trying to read this book, I don’t think it ever had a chance.
HBO’s wildfire hit Game of Thrones is set to return March 31st, 2013. While that may seem like an eternity for the faithful, we can all sate our appetite with a few tiny glimmers into the upcoming season 3. Check them out below!
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, toward beauty. Vogon ships did not nod toward beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley. I really wanted to like And Another Thing, Eoin Colfer’s sequel to the late Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide series. In the end, however, I can
Tune in to the classic rock station, fill a flask with holy water and make sure your car is stocked head to toe with rock salt and guns. You’re about to drive head first into the darkness with Sam and Dean Winchester. They are the hunters of demons, ghouls, vampires, ghosts and all the things
Welcome to part two of “Ten Books, a Thousand Pages,” where I read the first hundred pages of ten books released this year. (Part one is here.) My rules for the books I picked: They need to have been written in 2012. They need to be sci-fi or fantasy titles. They need to be sitting