by G.L. Breedon | Jul 17, 2011 | Books, Fantasy, Reviews
I finished Susanne Collin’s Hunger Games this weekend. I know, I’m a little behind in my reading. It seems everyone has read it. Especially now that it is being made into a film. I liked it a lot. Not as much as I wanted to, but quite a bit. The choice to...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 13, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Science Fiction
I read The Passage a few months ago, but I didn’t have this blog then. Although I did like The Passage, I felt I could have liked it much more. Partly that is because I was not expecting a 250 page prologue. Nor was I expecting the time jump in the story after...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 11, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Science, Space
Thinking about the Final Space Shuttle launch last week got me to thinking about the history of space exploration, so I grabbed my copy of Space Flight (DK Books – Gill Sparrows) off the shelf and spent a few hours reading. I love DK Books. I have a huge...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 5, 2011 | Fantasy, Reviews, TV
I finally got around to watching the final episode of the First Season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. (Note: Neither the TV show or the book of Game if Throne is young adult appropriate.) One of the biggest advantages the writers and producers have is that they are...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 29, 2011 | Film, Reviews, Science Fiction
My wife and I watched the Adjustment Bureau over the weekend. Although it had timid and some fuzzy edged metaphysics (I like my metaphysics a little more bold), I found that I enjoyed the film quite a bit. Partly this is due to the wonderful on screen chemistry...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 24, 2011 | Books, Retro-Nostalgia, Reviews, Science Fiction
My last post about Falling Skies and got me to thinking about alien invasion stories which led me to thinking about my favorite alien invasion story of all time, The War Against the Chtorr series by David Gerrold. Interestingly the series does exactly what I...
