The last of my holiday queue-skippers, I finished started and finished Cujo over the course of two flights: New Orleans to Minneapolis, and then Minneapolis to Seattle.
Go grab something to drink, I’ve got a lot to say. Continue reading What I’m Reading: Cujo by Stephen King
Mom gave me a pile of picks from her library about a year ago, including Zane Grey’s Robber’s Roost.
Anyways, I read it, and this is a review.
Continue reading What I’m Reading: Robber’s Roost by Zane Grey
So, yesterday I went to see this movie. It’s great. You should go see it before I complain about it. If you’re spoiler-sensitive, don’t “Read More” just yet. This entry will wait.
I picked up The Tomorrow Project: Bestselling Authors Describe Daily Life In The Future at Norwescon in 2011. Given my forty book backlog (which I’m decreasing, at least until my December B&N/Half-Priced Books trip), my reading latency shouldn’t be shocking.
At the beginning of October, I picked up the first nine of the 10-volume Chronicles of Amber series at Half-Priced books, mainly because my Dresden group also runs an Amber game, and the idea of roleplaying a nigh-godlike figure always appeals to me.
I cannot laud Nine Princes in Amber highly enough. It’s a masterpiece. Zelazny’s prose dances across the page, never slow or boring, the dialogue sparkles and the characters all deep and intertwined. The story’s great, seeming a natural extension of the characters’ desire, the way it should be. It’s quite clear why this book was a Hugo and Nebula award winner. I’m already looking on my calendar for when I’ll have time to reread it.
Continue reading What I’m Reading: The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
While transitioning from my old domain to www.gregoryblake.net, I noticed how often I used to review anime. Let’s do that again. Check it out!
For the last month or two, I’ve been absolutely crazy to see the movie Sucker Punch, or as I heard it called (sounds like a great pitch quote) : “Alice in Wonderland with Machine Guns”. I’m not aiming to spoil this for anyone, so there’s a courtesy cut below. Don’t go complaining to me about spoilers if you clicked to read the rest: This entry is about the intersection between plot and message, and how the two can undermine each other, leaving the audience dissatisfied. Also, I will say above the cut that the movie is definitely worth seeing. The 1% of the movie that I complain about is what I focus on in this article, not the 99% that was amazing.
“And before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM.” – The Doom That Came to Sarnath by H.P. Lovecraft.
Warning, major spoilers up ahead because this story made me cranky.
Continue reading What I’m Reading: The Doom That Came to Sarnath, H.P. Lovecraft
When I finished this short story, I looked around in the reader, wondering where the rest of it was.
Continue reading What I’m Reading: The Descendant by H.P. Lovecraft, Review
For its weight class, Dagon is a strong contender. It packs good tension, a solid narrative structure, and a close lensing that allows us to get solidly behind the protagonist. No spoilers ahead, but still providing a break.
Gregory Blake 