Redshirts has got to be one of the most geek-friendly book titles I have encountered. The uninformed might guess that it’s about wearing a certain colour of clothing, and they might be wondering why it’s a single compound word. However, any sci-fi fan worth his salt knows that it actually refers to the laughable tendency…
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Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl and Richard LaGravenese – Book and Movie Review
I’m not quite sure what brought me to another supernatural, teen romance (especially after giving up on the Twilight books after only halfway through the second) but I guess I wanted to see if they were truly as similar as they seem. One of the things I noticed right away (especially since I was listening…
The Magicians by Lev Grossman – Book Review
Did you always think that there needed to be more sex, drinking, or 4-letter words in the Harry Potter books? Or that the kids in the Chronicles of Narnia weren’t as snarky, cynical, or full of ennui as the ones you knew at that age? Perhaps that upending of a beloved series of fantasy books…
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins – Book Review
I wasn’t very excited to read Catching Fire at first. The first book, The Hunger Games, was an original blend of sci-fi, action, and drama but I expected that the 2nd novel might be a revisiting of those same elements: the Katniss-Peeta-Gale love triangle, the inventive yet cruel Hunger Games, and the dystopian backdrop of…
Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs – Book Review
Recently iTunes had a promotion on the audiobook version of Drop Dead Healthy so I picked it up for $7. Normally I don’t spend much time reading health books, or self-help books. All lot of them seem bogus, or only useful for people who are willing to change everything about their lives in order to…
A Storm of Swords – Book Review
If you’re reading this review, I presume that you have an interest in the George R.R. Martin “A Song of Ice and Fire” series of novels and preferably you’ve read at least the first two (or at least watched the HBO television series up to season 2). I have become a big fan myself, and…
40 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Films for 2013 (part 2)
Despite the fact that Hollywood seems more interested in sequels and franchise films (especially in the sci-fi/fantasy market), there are a few 2013 movies which bring a new story to the big screen. However, I can’t promise that they won’t be the first in a franchise (in fact, some of the book adaptations already have…
The Life of Pi – Movie Review
The Life of Pi has often been considered an “unfilmable” book, and I’m not sure if that’s because the bulk of the story is given by the protagonist’s monologue and has almost no interaction with other human characters, or because it’s an ocean-bound tale with animals playing major roles. In either case, director Ang Lee…
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor – Book Review
It was foolish of me not to have realized (even just from the opening epigram: “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.”) what this book was going to be like. Daughter of Smoke and Bone is in the same genre as Twilight (and so many…
