One final archived review. JohnT! Come back! We miss you! ————— Before we begin, there are SPOILERS aplenty about this book. Any and all are free to post what you want about this book without having to resort to the spoiler tags. Also, my initial post is rather large, so I’ve taken the liberty of…

Another archived review from the prolific and opinionated JohnT…. ————— Let’s start with the standard info. Be warned that this book has been reprinted quite a number of times by different publishers: Name: Foundation Author: Isaac Asimov Published: 1951 in novel form, though the individual stories within were published in Astounding magazine in the proceeding…

I’ve been digging through the archives of our old message boards (which succumbed to spam long ago but recently arose, phoenix-like, from its own digital ashes), and unearthed some book reviews that a user with the handle JohnT wrote some time ago. I wanted to feature a couple on the blog, because they’re very thorough.…

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an expansion of the Jane Austen classic with “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action.” As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton–and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace,…

Responding to a roundtable topic at Man Bytes Blog asking for what a favorite book would be like if it had first been a video game, Shamus Young chose Snow Crash. Instead of just describing what the game would be like, he wrote a whole review about it. The first section of the game is…

The fine folks over at RinkWorks know that our time is valuable. They’ve saved us loads of it by taking out all of the filler–there’s a startling amount of it–from works of fiction, allowing each book to be read in a minute or less. It’s surprising how much of the actual flavor of the work…