Deaths Head - David Gunn

feeds@yuku.com (Rambo123UK) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:38:43 GMT

Enjoyed this book tremendously. It's a war novel in a sci-fi setting that also evokes the era of Imperial Rome (WH40K fans will enjoy it) as well as Sven Hassel. The hero is a bit like Sharpe or one of Bernard Cornwell's other characters with an affinity for violence and contempt of authority. Action packed, tense, brutal, and graphic, and hilariously funny in places, I'm hooked enough to be buying the other books in the series off Amazon.

The Accident Man

feeds@yuku.com (Rambo123UK) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:04:29 GMT

A colleague was reading this book at work and passed it onto me. I'm not really one for these typical action thriller novels, but I thought I'd have a look as it was based around the conspiracy theory ideas around the death of Diana. Basically the character is like an assassin version of James Bond who is duped into taking part in the murder of Diana and then goes for revenge on those who set him up. There are a good number of echoes of Bond and especially Casino Royale in...

Just for kids?

feeds@yuku.com (justietoo2002) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:46:09 GMT

I tried to solicite a conversation about the Phillip Pullam's triology "The Golden Compass" books from a bloger or two from Freedom From Religion group but had no takers, I loved these books, and have been dying to discuss them with someone, ANYone....
peace
justie

Prelude to Halloween.

feeds@yuku.com (Rizzo da Rat) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:31:43 GMT

Since I'm the Moderator for the Halloween forum every October, I thought I'd stick this here for anyone interested in Neil Gaiman news. It's from his blog and he's holding a contest. JK Rowling likes the whole Scottish castle reading stuff, but Gaiman will go anywhere.

What about graphic novels?

feeds@yuku.com (Rambo123UK) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:02:21 GMT

I read Pride of Baghdad recently and that was a magnificent, poignant tale and a scathing attack on the invasion of Iraq.

A friend also leant me a couple of Hulk graphic novels. I used to read Marvel stuff a long time ago - X-men, Spidey, Iron Man mostly - but stopped while I was still at school. Hulk was never one of the titles I followed, but I dipped into it a couple of times. Anyway, I've just read Planet Hulk and really enjoyed it.

I have to say...

Books!

feeds@yuku.com (Risky1) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:15:25 GMT

I have been fascinated by the written word and books for almost thirty nine years now. The first book I ever read was the Wizard of Oz, I had just learned how to read and was beginning to understand what I was reading; the pages blurred as the story began to take a life and I started to hear the cadence and drawl of the characters voices as their conversations spilled across the page. For the first time I heared that inner dialog and though I did not know or understand what a soliloquy was...