The Hardy Boys (Franklin W. Dixon):
It was suggested in the Toronto Star’s review that to recreate the new Walden Media version of C. S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian, one need only repeat the title of this entry several times. While this is perhaps not entirely fair, as my friend Juliana pointed out after we saw the…
Here’s the scoop: I don’t care about good people who do good things for good reasons and are never heart-wrenchingly tempted by evil. Sorry. This explains a lot of my taste in fiction; I’ve never been able to sympathize very much with Lucy and Peter Pevensie, or Harry Potter, or…
I like fictional jerkwads, okay? There’s something about an antihero that interests me way more than any hero can. Consider yourself warned.
Have you ever read a book that entranced you until the very last chapter, when the ending reared up like a brick wall in your face?
Three different media. Three similar themes. There can be only one winner. … Um, except there’s not really a contest. So, I saw this movie, went to this play, and read this book, right?
In light of this recent unfortunate news story , it’s important that we root out and record all instances of twins raised apart. I therefore put to you the case of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore and Willy Wonka.
Am I a bad person for loving these LJ communities? Probably, but when did that ever stop me before? So, remember a while back I was talking about Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint? Well, you should definitely run out and get a copy of it. Because, if you don’t, you won’t…
So, first of all, I highly recommend The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, an anthology of short stories voted on by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America and edited by Robert Silverberg. The book was originally published in the 1970s, but new hardcover and paperback…
You know why I’d make an awful evil villain? Because, when I get really angry, I start to cry and shake. What an awful climactic confrontation scene that would be: imagine, Harry Potter flings off his Invisibility Cloak – Indiana Jones swings down from above and lands between me and…