I just finished this epic fantasy novel (on Audible) a few days ago, and am overall unimpressed and a bit irritated. Right from the start of the book I knew I was in trouble, when during an action sequence he describes a character falling by saying he 'began to fall' and what he saw on …
Interstellar
I watched this cerebral sci fi flick over the weekend and I have to say it lived up to my expectations. In the near future, a global blight has taken out Earth's crops, and the remains of NASA plan to send the population to a new planet by traveling through a wormhole. The pilot, Cooper, …
Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe
I listened to this recently on Audible, and it was not what I expected. Though this is marketed as a sci-fi, the setting is really more of a medieval/fantasy type world. The prose is also very dramatic, dark and flowery, which seems more fit to a fantasy novel. The main character being a torturer who …
Flight of the Silvers
I just finished this novel by Daniel Price, and for the first time since my childhood, I listened to it on audiobook. I've been doing a lot of driving lately, so have picked up an Audible subscription. This book was very entertaining and gave me lots of ideas to steal. It begins with the end …
Edge of Tomorrow
Remember Groundhogs Day? Where Bill Murray keeps living the same day over and over no matter what he does? Imagine if, instead of Punxsutawney, Â Bill was in space fighting aliens when his day started repeating, and you'll have an idea what this movie is like. Tom Cruise plays an officer, Cage, who is placed in …
Jonas David 