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Only Death Is Real by Tom Gabriel Fischer
Feb. 4th, 2015 03:19 amThis book is:
* - contemplative
* - a complete package
This book is not:
* - to be read lightly
* - light
This book is:
* - contemplative
* - a complete package
This book is not:
* - to be read lightly
* - light
Dead Sky, Black Sun by Graham McNeill
Oct. 6th, 2010 01:40 pm( Review: Dead Sky, Black Sun by Graham McNeill )
This book is:
* - huge in scope and vision
* - above-average in quality of prose
* - fourth in a series
This book is not:
* - done any services by the disparity between scale of ideas and quality of prose
* - at all comprehensible without reading the other three books first
* - slow
This book is:
* - huge in scope and vision
* - above-average in quality of prose
* - fourth in a series
This book is not:
* - done any services by the disparity between scale of ideas and quality of prose
* - at all comprehensible without reading the other three books first
* - slow
( Review: Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood )
This book is:
* - excellent reading
* - contained of exceptional descriptive and emotive writing
* - to be read over the course of three or four years
This book is not:
* - contained of as many ideas as it is stories
* - light or casual reading
* - in print
This book is:
* - excellent reading
* - contained of exceptional descriptive and emotive writing
* - to be read over the course of three or four years
This book is not:
* - contained of as many ideas as it is stories
* - light or casual reading
* - in print
( Review: Heartbreak & Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story by Shawn Michaels and Aaron Feigenbaum )
This book is:
* - mediocre
* - 50% whitewash
* - 25% nausea-inducing born-again Christian fluff
This book is not:
* - a good conversion of Mr Michaels' communication style from television to text
* - detailed in any sense
* - worth reading unless you're a colossal Shawn Michaels fan with no critical faculties whatsoever
This book is:
* - mediocre
* - 50% whitewash
* - 25% nausea-inducing born-again Christian fluff
This book is not:
* - a good conversion of Mr Michaels' communication style from television to text
* - detailed in any sense
* - worth reading unless you're a colossal Shawn Michaels fan with no critical faculties whatsoever
( Review: A Lion's Tale: Around The World In Spandex by Chris Jericho )
This book is:
* - a good read with a strong narrative voice
* - Lessons I Have Learned In Getting Famous by Chris Jericho
* - full of some quite bizarre life experiences
This book is not:
* - serious business
* - all the dirt, all the time
* - going to dwell on the negative aspects of just about anything
This book is:
* - a good read with a strong narrative voice
* - Lessons I Have Learned In Getting Famous by Chris Jericho
* - full of some quite bizarre life experiences
This book is not:
* - serious business
* - all the dirt, all the time
* - going to dwell on the negative aspects of just about anything
( Review: The Death of WCW by R.D. Reynolds & Bryan Alvarez )
This book is:
* - fast, easy summarisations of crazy situations
* - Messers Alvarez and Reynolds putting the boot in on those they blame for the downfall of a company they loved
* - as biased as two donkeys
This book is not:
* - going to explain its data
* - going to reveal its sources
* - going to give the reader a remotely balanced view of anything
This book is:
* - fast, easy summarisations of crazy situations
* - Messers Alvarez and Reynolds putting the boot in on those they blame for the downfall of a company they loved
* - as biased as two donkeys
This book is not:
* - going to explain its data
* - going to reveal its sources
* - going to give the reader a remotely balanced view of anything
( Review: How To Write A Blockbuster by Sarah Harrison )
This book is:
* - friendly
* - confidence-boosting
* - excellent advice
This book is not:
* - God's gift to punctuation problems
* - up to date
* - long
This book is:
* - friendly
* - confidence-boosting
* - excellent advice
This book is not:
* - God's gift to punctuation problems
* - up to date
* - long
The Chalice by Phil Rickman
Aug. 19th, 2010 09:46 pm( Review: The Chalice by Phil Rickman )
This book is:
* - too long with too little action
* - contained of good, realistically human characters
* - about how Glastonbury screws people up
This book is not:
* - interesting enough to finish
* - living up to its potential
* - Mr Rickman's best work
This book is:
* - too long with too little action
* - contained of good, realistically human characters
* - about how Glastonbury screws people up
This book is not:
* - interesting enough to finish
* - living up to its potential
* - Mr Rickman's best work
( Review: Under The Mat: Inside Wrestling's Greatest Family by Diana Hart with Kirstie McLellan )
This book is:
* - unrelenting human pain
* - rambling and incoherent
* - a collection of a large family's worst moments
This book is not:
* - suitable for those with delicate temperaments
* - easily available
* - worth seeking out
This book is:
* - unrelenting human pain
* - rambling and incoherent
* - a collection of a large family's worst moments
This book is not:
* - suitable for those with delicate temperaments
* - easily available
* - worth seeking out
( Review: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman )
This book is:
* - very good
* - one of my favourites
* - about the unification of opposites
This book is not:
* - specifically like anything else out there
* - exactly a book for the young adult market
* - all that far about young adult market
This book is:
* - very good
* - one of my favourites
* - about the unification of opposites
This book is not:
* - specifically like anything else out there
* - exactly a book for the young adult market
* - all that far about young adult market
On Edge by Adam Copeland
Aug. 1st, 2010 03:34 pm( Review: On Edge by Adam Copeland )
This book is:
* - energetic
* - a good introduction to what it's like to be a pro wrestler
* - a classic rags-to-riches story
This book is not:
* - complicated
* - written by someone who reads a lot of books
* - contained of any backstage dirt whatsoever
This book is:
* - energetic
* - a good introduction to what it's like to be a pro wrestler
* - a classic rags-to-riches story
This book is not:
* - complicated
* - written by someone who reads a lot of books
* - contained of any backstage dirt whatsoever
( Review: Are You Ready? The Unauthorized History of DX by Triple H & Shawn Michaels with Aaron Williams )
This book is:
* - short on pages, shorter on content
* - corporate product
* - a tape transcript of two guys sitting in a hotel room rambling about things they did ten years ago
This book is not:
* - shocking, revealing or even surprising
* - going to tell you anything you didn't know if you already know anything about DX
* - literature, or indeed anything related to literature by blood, marriage, divorce, lawsuit or breaking-and-entering
This book is:
* - short on pages, shorter on content
* - corporate product
* - a tape transcript of two guys sitting in a hotel room rambling about things they did ten years ago
This book is not:
* - shocking, revealing or even surprising
* - going to tell you anything you didn't know if you already know anything about DX
* - literature, or indeed anything related to literature by blood, marriage, divorce, lawsuit or breaking-and-entering
Unfinished Fics: The Banner of the Landwaster - The Aeon Dreamers
The Aeon Dreamers
Madness descends upon the Earth, ancient terror rises from the deep, and the Transformers are trapped on a planet that's going rapidly and perhaps literally to Hell.
The Aeon Dreamers
Madness descends upon the Earth, ancient terror rises from the deep, and the Transformers are trapped on a planet that's going rapidly and perhaps literally to Hell.
( Review: A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny )
This book is:
* - a fine balance of cheerful, light hearted magical fantasy and blood-rite horror
* - written from the point of view of a dog
* - one of my favourites
This book is not:
* - going to explain most of what's happening
* - serious business
* - going to give up all its references in a single reading
This book is:
* - a fine balance of cheerful, light hearted magical fantasy and blood-rite horror
* - written from the point of view of a dog
* - one of my favourites
This book is not:
* - going to explain most of what's happening
* - serious business
* - going to give up all its references in a single reading
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Jul. 18th, 2010 01:59 pm( Review: Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, ed. Roald Dahl )
This book is:
* - to be read around about Christmas
* - contained of many gentle ghost stories
* - contained of a few good ghost stories
This book is not:
* - scary
* - as good as Roald Dahl wanted it to be
* - in print
This book is:
* - to be read around about Christmas
* - contained of many gentle ghost stories
* - contained of a few good ghost stories
This book is not:
* - scary
* - as good as Roald Dahl wanted it to be
* - in print
Unfinished Fics: The Other God Of Charr
Jul. 5th, 2010 06:03 pmUnfinished Fics #17
The Other God of Charr
An act of hubris from Cyclonus could get him killed three times over.
The Other God of Charr
An act of hubris from Cyclonus could get him killed three times over.
Unfinished Fics: The Banner of the Landwaster - Time Out Of Mind
Time Out Of Mind
Megatron and Starscream get stuck in one another's bodies whilst Shockwave and Soundwave plot to unlease a horror known only as Project: Infested Hand. Meanwhile, Thundercracker finally arrives somewhere very strange.
Time Out Of Mind
Megatron and Starscream get stuck in one another's bodies whilst Shockwave and Soundwave plot to unlease a horror known only as Project: Infested Hand. Meanwhile, Thundercracker finally arrives somewhere very strange.
( Review: Supernatural - Haunting Stories of Gothic Terror, ed. Robert Muller )
This book is:
* - histrionic
* - terrible
* - afraid of women
This book is not:
* - worth reading
* - in print
* - contained of any sympathetic characters at all
This book is:
* - histrionic
* - terrible
* - afraid of women
This book is not:
* - worth reading
* - in print
* - contained of any sympathetic characters at all
Unfinished Fics: The Lunatic Cabaret
Jun. 25th, 2010 09:15 amUnfinished Fics #15
Pride & Empire: The Lunatic Cabaret, SLASH
Skywarp gets embroiled in politics that're way over his head, whilst Megatron and Starscream have something else on their minds - each other.
Pride & Empire: The Lunatic Cabaret, SLASH
Skywarp gets embroiled in politics that're way over his head, whilst Megatron and Starscream have something else on their minds - each other.
