Category: Book Reviews
Review: Star Trek (movie novelization) by Alan Dean Foster C+
The experience of a movie is so brief - a mere two hours. The novelization of a movie turns those two hours into 5-6 hours. Every scene can acquire a new level of depth. Character thoughts can be enunciated. Back stories can be provided. Deleted sce… more »
Review: Black Hole A
Writer: Charles Burns
Artist: Charles Burns
Publisher: Pantheon
Price: $18.95
Black Hole was a limited series of 12 issues that started in 1995 and did not finish until 2005. It is now available (well, actually it has been for a while) in collec… more »
Review: Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell B+
About a week before Christmas I watched Charlie Rose interview Malcolm Gladwell about this book. So, when I got my Amazon Kindle, for Christmas, this was one of the first books I purchased. The author asks the question, How do people become extremely s… more »
Review: Becoming Batman by Dr. E. Paul Zehr B
I love books that take topics that interest me and examine the science in them. This book is not, as I assumed, a prescriptive on how to become Batman but more a treatise on the feasibility of becoming Batman. Could a man really train and then operate… more »
Review: Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk B
I found this book to be both genuinely interesting and annoying. Interesting because it's nice to see some discussion about comics that has depth and it was an introduction to some writers/artists that I haven't read. I'll definitely be picking up a few… more »
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