Well I just read a very odd little book. So one of my favorite podcasts I listen to is the Flophouse podcast. And no, this isn’t another book based on a popular podcast. The Flophouse is great, and one of the many podcasts that’s about bad movies. It’s […]
I haven’t really mentioned it before on the site, because it’s not really something that makes sense for me to write about, but I love podcasts. My job can be very quiet and boring, a lot of busy work that needs something for me to entertain myself […]
Traditional fantasy can be kind of a bore to me. I feel like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis have kind of nailed that traditional fantasy genre, so if you’re going to add to it, you’d better be doing something interesting with the format. I can’t imagine anyone is […]
I have a deep love of the novels of Michael Chabon, especially The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which is one of my favorite novels of all time. So when I heard someone (I think it was a podcast) say that they personally think Jonathan Lethem is an even […]
I think it’s a real shame that when people hear that a book is a fantasy, you automatically assume that it’s all about dragons and elves and stuff. And people can really be put off by that sort of thing. I suppose we’ve made weird genres like “Urban […]
I first heard about this book when I started looking into self-publishing to try and get my stories published. This book, along with Hugh Howey’s Silo series represented the success of the self-publishing movement, and an inspiration for all aspiring authors. And yet, I didn’t check this book […]
I’ve talked before about my love for John Swartzwelder, but I really can’t say enough about the guy. His episodes of the Simpsons are pretty consistently my favorite, and as I started to get the DVD seasons and the episode guides, I slowly pieced together that all of […]
One of my favorite literary genres (and cinematic and comic book at that) is hardboiled noir. I absolutely love private eyes. From the classic works of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane to the more contemporary versions like Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union or James Ellroy’s […]
When you look through the archive of the articles I’ve written so far, you’ll probably notice that there’s a glut of articles that comprise of me gushing about things that I love. Besides an average review of Ant-Man and several references to my loathing of Man of Steel, […]
I try to read a lot of books. The last couple of years I shoot for at least forty a year. That’s not counting any of the comics or graphic novels I read, because that would be a ridiculously high number, nope, just 40 books, either fiction or […]
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