This was an excellent read, a super dense 207 pages that covers Woody’s life and exactly how bloody radical he was. It’s hard to believe there was such a large radical left movement in the United States. Then you’re reminded again of McCarthyism and it’s horrors and you understand why it’s so hard to rebuild. … Continue reading
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Book review: The Guest Cat
This was a delightful 136 pages.The book revolves around a man, his wife and the neighbour’s cat, over a period of 3 years. Its really quite a quick read – though not quite sure why it’s a New York Times best seller. I mean, it’s a nice story and all but it’s not life changing … Continue reading
Book review: Cryptonomicon
I think the point where I went from being merely frustrated and annoyed at the overly long, pointless and most often trite passages of this book came around page 484. This is because the next 7 or 8 pages are solely about Randy (one of the main characters) eating Cap’n Crunch. At this point, I … Continue reading
Comics round up #7
Yay! Comics for Christmas! Winter Soldier Ed Brubaker OMG ALL THE FEELS. Ahem. So I had never read this series but it was one of my xmas presents. So good! The massive graphic novels follows Bucky Barnes, tracking down those who were like him and the people buying them on the blackmarket! Doom shows up … Continue reading
Book review: The People’s Car
The People’s Car: A global history of the Volkswagon Beetle – Bernhard Riegar A few months ago @psythor and I went to the German exhibition at the British Museum. Of course, going through the bookshop, I couldn’t help but pick up this book. It is what it says on the tin – a global history … Continue reading
Book review: The Martian Chronicles
So this was all good except for the casual sexism and occasional threat of domestic violence. So, there isn’t really a plot as it’s a collection of short stories about Martians, people going to Mars, people leaving Mars and a few people going back to Mars. Some of them were really quite creepy and others … Continue reading
Comics round up #6
Christmas is coming so I’m reading all the comics I haven’t read in the expectation of more comics! Science: ruining everything since 1543 Zach Weinersmith For the uninitiated, this is the collection of comics from Sunday Morning Breakfast Cereal. It has many of the science-based hits that the webcomic has to offer and there were … Continue reading
Book review: The Left hand of God
Holy horseshit. That would be my two word review of this book. It was just so dumb and terrible, it’s hard to get angry about – other than I wasted my Sunday reading it. So, it takes place in what seems to be a dystopian version of European pre-Reformation Europe. There are some super-holy ridiculously … Continue reading
Book review: 20,000 leagues under the sea
That was such a hard slog. We can probably cut ol’ Jules Verne some slack given he helped start the genre but holy crap that was quite tedious. So, first off, I don’t think there is one single woman in the book (there are crowds of people on a boat but there’s no single defined … Continue reading
Book review: Elric of Melniboné
God. I’m getting tired of these. Really. Maybe this was good when it was published in the 1970s but god, it’s just…ugh. So, plot: in some mystical land, where everyone is an arrogant, self-entitled, slave-owning bastard – you’re supposed to like this one particular arrogant, self-entitled, slave-owning bastard because he’s got ‘weak blood’ and talks … Continue reading
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