“Few and far between are the books you’ll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.”
Quote of the Day 23-Aug-2017: On Old Books
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Chewing Up “Gray Part I” by Lou Cadle
The idea of a post-apocalyptic world has been rampant the last few years. Zombies? Check. Being put into an arena to kill others your age? Check. The apocalypse is fashionable these days. Enter Gray: Part I by Loud Cadle. The first of a trilogy, this book has what others lack: reality.
Details below (spoiler alert, of course).
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Quote of the Day 21-Aug-2017: On Light
Chewing up “Ascend Online” by Luke Chmileriko
Ascend Online, whose name sounds like a beloved game I used to play called Eve Online, was immediately appealing to me for that reason. When I read some other online reviews, the book hearkened back to Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – a nostalgia piece aimed at video games the way that Cline’s work was a love letter to pop culture of the 1980’s.
Sadly I was disappointed.
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Quote of the Day 16-Aug-2017: On Change
“Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose” (or “The more things change, the more they stay the same”).
the dingo was here 