Tag: sci-fi
member name: Paul M.
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March 17, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
It was way back in 1991 or 1992 when I first walked into the local Waldenbooks and saw the display for "Heir to the Empire" by Timothy Zahn billed as "the official continuation of the Star . . .
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August 27, 2008 04:49 PM EDT --
Thief of Time
(A Discworld Novel)
by Terry Pratchett
When it comes to some airplane/beach reading, Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are definitely not a bad choice if you're a sci-fi/fantasy . . .
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October 02, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
I just finished updating a blog with all 180 or so book reviews I've written since 2001. You can read all about my favorite (and not so favorite) books over that stretch. The blog divides . . .
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December 24, 2008 11:46 AM EST --
Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
(4/5 stars)
I can honestly say it took me seven years to read this book. Not because it's extremely long--though at 482 pages it's not short either--or . . .
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August 29, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
The Long Walk
By Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
(4/5 stars)
This was the first Stephen King book I'd ever read. Some "friends" recommended that it was one of his best, so I thought . . .
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October 01, 2009 03:07 PM EDT --
On a message board a couple of people were getting into that familiar old timer's rant of "kids today can't sit still five minutes let alone read a novel!" My rebuttal: what about Harry Potter . . .
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April 07, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
A Gather friend suggested after I reviewed Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books that I should give "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett a try. . . .
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September 05, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
Moving Pictures
(A Discworld Novel)
by Terry Pratchett
(3/5 stars)
I'm going to be lazy here and borrow heavily from the review of the last Discworld book I read recently because really, . . .
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November 15, 2008 12:14 AM EST --
Does it violate some kind of reviewer's code to review a movie a second time within five months? Screw it. "The Dark Knight" finally came to the second-run theaters and since . . .
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December 02, 2008 02:38 PM EST --
Hogfather
(A Discworld Novel)
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
In the fictional Discworld, which is carried by four elephants atop a giant turtle floating through space, what we would consider . . .
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January 10, 2009 06:28 PM EST --
Fall of Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
(3/5 stars)
I was trying to think of a good sci-fi related way to compare my disappointment with "Fall of Hyperion" compared to the original "Hyperion." . . .
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February 11, 2009 07:43 PM EST --
I've gotten through the first 16 volumes of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series; just 12 more to go! Picking up where I left off, here are reviews of Volumes 15 & 16.
Volume 15: . . .
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December 09, 2009 10:12 PM EST --
First off it's important to note that "Terminator Salvation" qualifies as what I'd call a midquel. It's a sequel to some events of James Cameron's "The Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment . . .
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December 15, 2009 10:00 AM EST --
You could easily say the 00s were the decade of the superhero movie. There were a few before that with the original Superman and Batman franchises, but the 2000s saw a boom in the quantity and in . . .
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December 18, 2009 10:25 PM EST --
You can now buy my book from Barnes & Noble online, as well as Amazon.
Check it out here
For a description and sample chapter, click here
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August 28, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Anytime I go to a big city on vacation I always try to get to a couple museums just to get some culture. And in Phoenix it's a good way to kill those late morning/afternoon hours when it's . . .
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October 24, 2008 10:56 PM EDT --
I decided to save a few bucks this week (and avoid being stampeded by tweens and teens going to HSM 3 and Saw V) and went to the second-run theater to see "Hancock." Unless you're going . . .
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December 19, 2008 03:27 PM EST --
Discworld: Volumes 1-6
By Terry Pratchett
I recently bought most of Pratchett’s Discworld series off Ebay and began reading them in more-or-less chronological order, instead of the . . .
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January 10, 2009 08:52 PM EST --
I'm continuing my march through the entire Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I opened my box of Discworld books on XMas Day and began with "Pyramids", volume 7 in the series.
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January 23, 2009 04:59 PM EST --
NOTE: reviews for Volume 10 "Moving Pictures" and Volume 11 "Reaper Man" were written in separate reviews previously.
Discworld Volumes 12-14
by Terry Pratchett
Right, . . .
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