Category Archives: Daily Rants

Silver Vengeance by Kasey Shoemaker

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

  So here’s the story:  through no fault of anyone’s I got interrupted reading this book on 4 separate occasions and felt the need to retrace my steps when I started again. Why? It’s a complex read, and to give it justice you must immerse yourself in this reality. From the initial family turmoil, to […]

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The Soul Collector by Tracy L. Carbone

March 20th, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

When a young adult “horror” book crossed my path, I was concerned. As I finished it I was surprised, and most pleasantly so. This isn’t a horror book in any sense of the word. The Soul Collector is a book about an young girl, American Stonehenge, alien presence and (just for good measure) divorce. At […]

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Coderunner

January 5th, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants

It is getting harder and harder to define what a “gamer” is in a world that has embraced social and casual gaming. Most everyone I encounter routinely and actively plays games of one sort or another, and the extent of knowledge that people have about games is slowly rising. The community that I grew up […]

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Movies I Wish You had Seen – Robot Stories

January 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

When science fiction is at its best it has heart. Movies as diverse as Alien and Bladerunner share this quality, as do the best of the best from blockbusters to indie art-house features. This is the case with Robot Stories, a compilation of four short films with a unifying dual theme: robots and souls.

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Happy Holidays!

December 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants
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Feed by Mira Grant

December 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

I was a little leery about getting into this book, but I am so glad that I did. What a great zombie book! Instead of dealing with what happens when the zombie outbreak happens, its dealing with how people go on living when the outbreak is controlled but not gone, and it does it very, […]

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Science Fiction Classic–A Canticle for Leibowitz (Part 2–Analysis)

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

In part one of my review of A Canticle for Leibowitz I provided a plot summary and pointed out how the story focused on the cyclical nature of history. Within that broad theme Miller looked at two more specific recurring conflicts–that of science and religion, and of Church and State, and did so in a […]

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Science Fiction Classic–A Canticle for Leibowitz (Part 1–Summary)

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

In the process of writing my last article my mind wandered, as it is wont to do, down a myriad of paths suggested by what I was writing. One of those paths was the cyclical nature of end-of-world prophesies, which in turn reminded me of a classic genre piece that revolves around the cyclical nature […]

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Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole by Kristi Peterson Schoonover

December 13th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

The subtitle of this book says it all: Tales from Haunted Disney World. Each of the the short stories ties into this theme. This book is hypnotic and in many ways it’s not what I expected (to be completely honest, I am not sure what I did expect given the title and concept). The stories […]

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Movies I Wish You Had Seen – Dark City

December 6th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

So, here is the problem. Most of you readers have probably seen this movie, but not in its true form. I happened to catch this move on TV and was disgusted by the way it was hacked, the inability to see half of it and the incredibly garbled audio. At that point I shut off […]

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