Baby Gods

Phil Hine’s classic book on Chaos Magic – who knew Cthulhu could prove such fun? I read this book many moons ago so I re-read it for fun and then again for this review and I had forgotten how good this jolly little text reads. Let no-one fool you into thinking that this book’s depth [...]

…like any journey, with an argument.   "What’s that?" "What?" "That?" "This?" "Yes!" "That’s my key." "Key? What’s it the key to?"

Ok, so I spot something wrong here. Had I made this the first Chris Ryan novel I read, I would never read another one. And yet this gets 4.5/5 on Amazon. Yet Strikeback, which I thoroughly enjoyed gets 3/5. who can I trust to decide which Chris Ryan novel to read next? [amazon.com][amazon.co.uk] Problems I [...]

[amazon.com][amazon.co.uk] I do not normally read books as long as this. And this book has well over 1000 pages of small text. I bought it after reading The Fountainhead ([amazon.com][amazon.co.uk]) and then every time I opened Atlas Shrugged I was put off by its length. Eventually I got around to reading it and the first [...]

I have far too many blogs, and I haven’t been very good at trimming out all the comment spam, but I thought I’d boost my diligence quota and get in there and mark the spam. blog 1 – 130 comments (all spam), ok that didn’t take long blog 2 – 90 comments (all spam), easy [...]

I always thought of the wayback machine as the internet archive, but having recently stumbled across archive.org I much prefer this. And I can rock out with  the live music archive and, in particular, warren zevon, but there are so many bands listed here that I’ll have a hard time working through them all. But [...]

I just watched Day Watch on DVD – the sequel to Night Watch. I really enjoyed it – either a massive budget increase since the first film or special effects have really come down in price. Night Watch seemed to have a well used and  relatively low budget. The story of a young man, framed [...]

And so my obsession with the destroyer novels has come to an end. A great series of novels originally written by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir about an ex-cop trained as an assassin to work for a secret US government sponsored agency. 149 books in total  – although I only read 135. I loved the [...]

And there I stood thinking I had found a bargain picking up 3 Dan Streib Hawk books at knock down give away prices. Much though I love pulp fiction I could find nothing to endear me towards Hawk. For some reason the author would never consistently refer to him by one name. One sentence we [...]

I used to watch the Tarzan films as a kid – great. I used to read the Tarzan comics as a kid – fab. I think I read one Tarzan book as a kid – illiterate slob. But now I have built up my Tarzan book collection and have decided to work through them in [...]