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Post by kylor on Oct 4, 2023 6:54:39 GMT -6
Finished Star Wars: The Force Unleashed by Sean Williams. It was a relatively swift read, it was mostly well chaptered, a few chapters being shorter than others, but that is par the course for some books.
Not much to be said, it is the story of the video game fleshed out to fill a book. For what it was it was enjoyable, but you'd probably get just as good an experience from watching a cut together cutscene movie of the video game. Or simply play the game, because the book did make me remember when I played the game and it made me miss playing it, because it was a fun Star Wars game.
Recommended for those who want to experience the story and have no desire to seek out and/or play the video game.
Next will be Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster.
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Post by Asaemon on Oct 8, 2023 12:00:16 GMT -6
The Malice (The Vagrant #2) by Peter Newman
2 out of 5 stars
Kind of lost interest in reading the 3rd book and started reading Conan the Barbarian instead.
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Post by kylor on Oct 8, 2023 13:08:45 GMT -6
Finished Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster. Relatively quick read, decently chaptered. Not much to say since it's basically the film in text form although the book has a few moments that I don't recall seeing in the movie, but it's been a while since I've watched the movie so maybe they are, maybe not.
It was still entertaining enough to read.
Next I've started Black Adder: The Whole Damn Dynasty.
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Post by kylor on Oct 13, 2023 7:24:31 GMT -6
Finished Black-Adder: The Whole Damn Dynasty. Great book. Well chaptered. It contains the script for all 4 seasons of the TV Show, but also includes extra stuff, with small little artistic drawings on every other page, as well as extra funny things not in the show. A very fun book despite it being quite a large book.
Recommended for anyone who liked the show as a whole.
I had attempted to start "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, but I simply could not get past the first chapter. As such I can't give it a genuine review.
After skipping a lengthy introduction by someone I don't know of that consists of a decent chunk of the book, I was finally able to get to the first chapter, only to be completely perplexed by it.
Now, as someone who was able to read Bram Stoker's Dracula fairly easily despite the occasional old wording, A Clockwork Orange was impossible for me personally. At least Dracula had a sort of dictionary at the end of the book to explain what the words mean; A Clockwork Orange doesn't provide that comfort. It uses slang and made up words where most of my time was spent trying to work out what the hell each word meant, instead of simply being able to read it and settle into the story, with such fake words I could barely determine what was going on story wise.
As someone who was looking forward to reading this, I am left utterly disappointed. My only hope would be if there is a publicated version where the words are actual English, words that actually exist in a real dictionary, and not just made up words that I can't wrap my head around.
As it stands currently, I think I'll just stick to watching the movie.
So next I'll be reading "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Phillip K. Dick.
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Post by kylor on Oct 15, 2023 6:51:32 GMT -6
Finished We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Phillip K. Dick. I took a bit of a break between books, but this is a very short story, can get through the entire story in an hour. Can't say it's well chaptered since it's so short that it isn't chaptered at all.
Since I have experienced the movie first and the questions that movie raises, the original story does actually explain that a bit more. However, while I enjoyed the story, it IS short. While the movie shrouds itself so you're forced to ask questions, it is at least longer, and has much more action and has a satisfying villain and end goal.
I would say that the movie is better in my honest opinion, however I also think that the book is a very good companion piece to the movie, since it helps to answer the questions that the movie raises, or at least provides a bit more context than the movie.
Next I'll be reading "Terminator 2: The Future War" by S. M. Sterling.
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Post by kylor on Oct 19, 2023 6:49:56 GMT -6
Finished Terminator 2: The Future War by S. M. Sterling. It is relatively well chaptered, it just took me a while to get through the book since the writing is small on the pages and the chapters are quite long.
A little context:
The Terminator movies. I liked the first 4; T1, T2, T3 and Salvation. I didn't like the garbage that came out after Salvation. However my only gripe of those is with T3, the casting of John was a poor choice, other than that it's a solid movie. What I appreciated with those movies was that they actually progressed the story, moving towards the future war with Salvation. Of course, the movies after that were determined not only to not progress the story, but instead try to change things with different actions and time travel etc. If I remember correctly, if we follow ALL of the terminator movies, it currently stands that Skynet is now called Legion and terminators are now called REVs. It became a Chinese bootleg of itself, a joke, in my opinion.
So, the book. Little did I realize that there are 2 other T2 books before this one, and I had started on the 3rd book first. However, I decided to try it anyway, undetstanding that it might reference things from the previous 2 books that I won't understand having not read them, or even own them yet. The story itself is actually pretty great. I am unsure if it retcons T3 or Salvation, perhaps in theory the events of Salvation could still technically happen with this story.
It covers Judgement Day up to Kyle Reese going back in time. It is what I wanted the movies to accomplish story wise but the movies only barely got to with Genisys then totally screwed it up.
Highly recommended, will be looking for the first 2 books.
Next will be my set of 6 Assassin's Creed books by Oliver Bowden.
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Post by Asaemon on Oct 22, 2023 14:08:37 GMT -6
Conan the Invincible by Robert Jordan
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Post by kylor on Nov 2, 2023 7:55:05 GMT -6
Finished my 6 book set of Assassin's Creed.
These consist of: Assassin's Creed The Secret Crusade, Assassin's Creed Renaissance, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Assassin's Creed Forsaken, and Assassin's Creed Black Flag.
I enjoyed them all in their own right. All are decently chaptered. Forsaken is the only book that doesn't cover the events of the games as such, it moreso covers the story of Connor's father from Assassin's Creed III, not Connor himself, to a degree. Also Forsaken and Black Flag are written in a similar style to Bram Stoker's Dracula, they act as journals of the main protagonist.
Of course there are more Assassin's Creed books in existence but I don't own them, but I shall seek those out over time.
My next and final book will be "The Coming of the Barbarians" by Pat Barr. It is the last book I currently own that I have not yet read. After I finish that I'll be taking a long break from reading books as I have a large backlog of TV Series I need to catch up on. I might pick back up on reading next year when I own more books from my list of books to obtain. The final review will be incoming over the next few days.
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Post by kylor on Nov 4, 2023 7:19:36 GMT -6
Finished "The Coming of the Barbarians" by Pat Barr. The book is well chaptered, and was relatively quick to get through.
The book tells of Japan and how people from the west came along and made attempts to bring trading to the country as well as to bring modern ideas to the country to help make it better and prosper.
It was actually quite a riveting book, it is basically a history book yet part of it reads a bit like the Assassin's Creed books I've just finished prior to this one, as there is fighting and battles involved, on top of that some parts of it read like Black-Adder due to the humor and wit within the book. These aspects make the book highly enjoyable on top of being educational. It truly shocks me that I only learned about these events through this book; it's not something that ever came up in my school history lessons.
βIn the past I'd never actually believe that I'd enjoy a factual history book, but here we are.
And that's it for reading for me for a long time. I'll come back to it next year probably once I've managed to wade through my backlog of TV Shows, and actually own more books off of my "to obtain" list to read. Adieu!
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