So, I’m going to start off with a slightly annoyed tangent. When in Toronto at the beginning of this month, we went to a bookstore. I was perusing the science fiction novels and decided I wanted something written by a woman. Nothing on the shelf jumped out (there were the usual familiar names) and so … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Dystopian
Book review: The Stand
What a bunch of bullshit. So the plot starts out as plague wipes out humanity and then turns into some mystical bollocks about a show down between good an evil. Perhaps if I wasn’t an atheist I would find it less awful, but as I am an atheist, I found the anti-intellectual, anti-progress, anti-rationalist twaddle … Continue reading
Book review: The Road
OMG. How depressing was this!? How did they say ‘yeah, that’ll make a great film where EVERYONE WILL CRY FOREVER.’ So plot. End of the world, everything is dead and dying, people have turned to cannibals as they scavenge the dying world for things to eat. A man and his son are walking the road, … Continue reading
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