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Category: Review
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Review: Art Books Part II
You can find the first part of this series here, where I talk about two ebooks, both of them on digital art and painting. Today at the Mad Genius Club I hosted a great essay by Jason Fuesting comparing Starship Troopers the movie to the book. But this post is a review of two three books,…
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Review: Art Books, Part I
I have a lot of books on art. Not as many as I used to, sadly, but still, more than I probably need. Books! must have books. Ok, so I hoard books like some kind of dragon librarian. And the art books are meant to learn from, which means that sitting on the shelf they…
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Review: Trader’s Tales
Since most of the people I know plan to spend today sitting at home recovering from a turkey coma, I have a whole series, not just a book, to recommend for reading in between naps today. What, you can’t binge-read a half-dozen books on your day off? I, um, I’m not going to admit anything……
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Review: Son of the Black Sword
I was talking to a fellow writer the other day about whether or not there is a market for a ‘thinking man’s fantasy.’ We were specifically talking about that sub-genre, Sword and Sorcery, the genre made famous by the likes of Conan the Barbarian, and oft-mocked as being ‘thud and blunder’ rather than ‘blood and…
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Curmudgeon Reviews: Steelheart
Steelheart (Reckoners Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson A review written by Sanford Begley I think I owe Brandon Sanderson an apology, though I’ve never met him. I have avoided his books like the plague because in my opinion he couldn’t write an ending. I am happy to be proven wrong. This is the first book…
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Review: Aggregation
While I have been reading this past week or so, I haven’t read any of the books I’d planned to review. I read Dave Freer’s deeply tongue-in-cheek noir detective send up, The Bolg and the Beautiful, a continuation of the adventures of his immortal Pictish king turned private eye. This one centers around Freya, her…
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Curmudgeon Review: Zombie Fallout
Written by Sanford Begley Zombie Fallout-Mark Tufo. Big thumbs down I don’t normally review a book I haven’t read in its entirety. Sometimes though, sometimes the fail is so big you must give fair warning. This story might get better later on. I doubt it. It starts out with Swine Flu mutating into something virulent, and…
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Review: Pack Dynamics
Larry Correia announced a while back that he was planning to book bomb Julie Frost’s new novel, Pack Dynamics. There was a delay, waiting on the paper version, but I’d picked it up on the day it came out in ebook, so today, since we’re bombing the lovely and intelligent Julie, I’m reviewing the book.…
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What’s in a review?
I realized as I explained why and how I review a book, recently, that it’s been a while since I did that here on the blog. I do have a bit of a review philosophy: I try to only review the good stuff. There are valid reasons for negative reviews, and I have done a…
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Review: Via Serica
I’d picked up Via Serica, Tom Rogneby’s latest, without a clear idea of what it was about. I don’t usually do that, but I was in a hurry, Dorothy Grant had just shared a link, and I’d really liked his Minivandians tales. So I grabbed it and went on with whatever I was doing that…
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Pleasantly Fluffy Reviews
And by fluffy, I don’t just mean light and airy. I actually mean soft and pettable and furry all over. I’m reviewing two totally different story forms today: one is a novel, the other a new-to-me webcomic. Off Leash by Daniel Potter is a fun little Indie book I picked up through a promotion recently,…
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The Emergency Holographic Korean Restaurant
For the second time in a row, we found ourselves in Fairborn, OH, looking forlornly at the empty dining room of our favorite restaurant. We’d learned when we tried to take friends there a while back that they were closed on Sundays, but a Saturday? Fortunately, a sign on the door assured us that this…