bookrev: You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
It ain’t LAMB, but it’s funny Christopher Moore sets the bar high with his writing. Very few books written these days are laugh out loud funny. When I read Mr. Moore’s LAMB, I got...
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bookrev: Passage to Dawn by R. A. Salvatore
3 stars: Very predictable, but pulls in some interesting new characters After ten books (three in the dark elf trilogy, three in the icewind dale trilogy and four in the legacy of the drow...
bookrev: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
5 stars: This novel shows why Scalzi won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer Old Man’s War is simply amazing for a debut novel. As an author my hat is off to John...
bookrev: Illium by Dan Simmons
Intricate plot, excellent book. How does Simmons think this stuff up? Mr. Simmons is arguably one of the best genre-hopping authors around, having pulled down awards for SciFi, Horror, Fantasy, etc. But this massive...
bookrev: Wanderer Springs by Robert Flynn
Robert Flynn’s writing is Texas Most people think of Texas and think of Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio. But the stories of Texas are really the tales of its small towns, how they started,...
bookrev: The Thousand Fold Thought by R. Scott Bakker
3 stars: Beautifully written, but you have to study the history for this 3rd one The first two books in this series (The Darkness That Comes Before and The Warrior Propeht) really set the...
bookrev: Siege of Darkness by R. A. Salvatore
5 stars: The Drow attack the Dwarves Book IX in The Legend of Drizzt Siege of Darkness, book 9 chronologically in the Drizzt series, finally gives what the last few books have been leading...
movrev: My Super Ex-Girlfriend
4 stars: Funny, G-girl is fabulous, but the ending is trite An excellent dual-role for Uma Thurman, as she plays shy art studio worker Jenny Johnson and her alter-ego super hero G-girl. Jenny/G-girl is...
bookrev: Starless Night by R. A. Salvatore
4 stars: Artemis Entreri just won’t die Starless Night, book 8 chronologically in the Drizzt series, shows the main characters still suffering from the death of one of their own in the previous book....
essay: Cho Dan Essay, Soo Bahk Do
This is my 1st degree black belt essay for Soo Bahk Do, written in February, 2002. It discusses the joys of training in Soo Bahk Do with my son and the pain of training...