Monthly Archive: May 2007

May 30

I’m on Facebook

It’s all Rob Shearman’s fault.  He friended me and now I find myself on another internet community and I’m getting a little bit hooked. Anyone else here on Facebook?  And when did it take off?  It seems so very new.  One thing I know, I need more photos.

May 29

Why Terrance Dicks rulz

I’m just finshing up World Games, a 2005 BBC Doctor Who novel by Terrance Dicks. The book features the Second Doctor during the alleged Season 6b and has him meeting Napoleon and Lord Nelson and Duke Wellington while stopping interference of the timelines. And it’s heaps of fun.  Yeah it reads like well written fan fiction.  There’s nothing …

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May 28

OK… OK… a proper update

I simply don’t have time to review books anymore.  So for the six people who read my reviews, I am sorry. That said, I can still make the following recommendations.  The Yiddish Policeman’s Union is a wonderful novel.  Not perfect, not as good as Kavlier and Klay, but well worth the read.  I loved it …

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May 09

A Review of The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Well, what can you say about a post apocalyptic novel that involves a father and his boy?   Possibly, that it’s the best book – genre, TV tie-in or mainstream – that I’ve read in the last 12 months. Yes, I admit, I love my hype, my hyperbole and my impossible to reach expectations, but seriously, …

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