Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Review: Wizardry & Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy, by Michael Moorcock

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Austin, TX: MonkeyBrain, Inc., 2004, pp. 206. I first encountered Michael Moorcock's classic study of epic fantasy many years ago, whe...
Friday, January 7, 2011

"Was 2010 the Worst Year for Movies Ever?"

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Continuing in the vein of "2010 in review," Moviefone 's Gary Susman offers his take on the year's films , and it is far f...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Review: Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel, by Gary Shteyngart

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New York: Random House, 2010, pp. 334. The protagonist of Gary Shteyngart's bestselling novel Super Sad True Love Story is Leonard Ab...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Reflections on Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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The success of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is exactly the kind of hit that makes me suspicious - a book showered with acclaim by ...
Friday, October 8, 2010

On the New York Times Bestseller List . . .

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On last Sunday's New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list , Jonathan Franzen, Nicholas Sparks and Stieg Larsson are all on top,...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Give the Superheroes a Rest?

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Alan Stanley Blair recently penned a piece at Airlock Alpha on the boom in movies (and television) based on superhero comics titled "E...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

The End of James Bond?

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Collected in The Forgotten James Bond . Back in April the producers of the James Bond film series announced that the next film is on inde...
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The End of James Bond? (Continued)

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Reboot Still, I wasn't terribly intrigued by the idea of the "reboot" that was discussed some time afterward. I'm not big...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Review: Matthew Reilly's Jack West Trilogy: Seven Deadly Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors

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Seven Deadly Wonders . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006, pp. 401. The Six Sacred Stones . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, pp. ...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Culture, by Patrick Anderson

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New York: Random House, 2007, pp. 288. As Washington Post book reviewer Patrick Anderson notes at the start of his book, the bestseller l...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Mad Men: My Two Cents

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Earlier, while taking a look at SyFy Channel's first year in my July 20 posting on that matter , I said I'd get in my two cents on t...