Book Review: What If?, by Randall Munroe
The simple fact of the matter is that I’m too effusive about books. I use waaay to may superlatives. So when I say What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is freaking...
View ArticleBook Review: Contact, by Carl Sagan
It’s probably ironic that the work we chose for review on Take Me To Your Reader this time wasn’t just a book that was adapted into a well-known film, it’s actually a screenplay adapted into a book...
View ArticleBook Review: Man in the Empty Suit, by Sean Ferrell
Lots of the time, books (or movies) about time travel are all about the excitement and danger of traveling through time, and the dangers of creating paradoxes, or about parallel universes and causality...
View ArticleBook Review: Undeniable, by Bill Nye
(Warning: this is a bit wordy. And it’s about Science!) I’m really not wanting to start any controversy here, but if you’re going to read this, keep in mind this book is about evolution. So if it...
View ArticleBook Review: R.U.R., by Karel Capek
I’ve probably mentioned this before, but one of the really cool things about doing the Take Me To Your Reader podcast is getting to know some classics of the science fiction genre, even if only because...
View ArticleBook Review: Steelheart, by Brandon Sanderson
A certain friend of mine has been bugging me to read Steelheart for quite some time, and I finally did. I’d picked it up when it was a couple of bucks from the NOOK store and finally had some downtime...
View ArticleBook Review: Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey
I don’t think space opera is my favorite kind of science fiction, and I’m also not a huge fan of long book series. So that’s two counts against Leviathan Wakes right off the bat, so it’s probably a...
View ArticleBook Review: Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
I’ve certainly read better books than Ready Player One, but no single book has ever made me geek out anywhere near as much. I’m not much of a gamer these days, mostly because I don’t own a game...
View ArticleBook Review: Firefight, by Brandon Sanderson
After enjoying Steelheart, I picked up the follow-up short story Mitosis and waited on my hold request for Firefight to come through. The things I’ll do to be able to discuss the plots of books with...
View ArticleGraphic Novel Roundup: Flash, Daredevil, Superman
I’ve written in the past about how for a long time I wasn’t able to read and enjoy graphic novels. Something about them was just too chaotic to me. Well, I’m over that now and enjoying the heck out...
View ArticleBook Review: The Maze Runner, by James Dashner
So, the Swimmer Dude has friends who are requiring that, should he wish to go to The Scorch Trials with them, he must first catch up at least that far in the Maze Runner book series. So I thought I’d...
View ArticleThe Book Review Drought, Reviewed
Well, it’s come to the time of the year where I’d normally do a nice roll-up of all my year’s reading, listing everything I read with very brief thoughts on each, linking to my incredibly well-written...
View ArticleAll The Reading, 2015
So this is the post in which I brag about how much I read this year while simultaneously whining about not reading more. And that’s all I have to say about that. I read 50 books this year, but that...
View ArticleBook Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (novelization), by Alan Dean Foster
I suppose it’d be good to just go on record saying I loved The Force Awakens. The movie, that is. Loved it. Saw it three times in the theater. Loved it. It may now be my favorite Star Wars film....
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