Posted on August 10, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut is a book that I read by choice, and after I read it, I had two reactions. The first was “huh?” and the second was, “I’m only 18. I guess I’m not mature enough to appreciate it. Well, I reread it recently, and while my first reaction was still “huh”, [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Watchmen, by Alan Moore is an award-winning graphic novel currently being adapted into a “Watchmen Movie” by Warner Brothers. We will all know this and more by the time the Studio’s marketing machine finishes it job, and will no doubt be giving each other Watchmen DVDs during Christmas 2009, and probably even Watchmen Watches.
I read [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard is a book that I confess, I read back in High School, lo these many moons ago. I recall thinking of it as “entertaining pulp”. At that time, Scientology had yet to make any headway in Hollywood, so buying the book had no undertones of furthering a [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book that we’re all familiar with, and has become something of a cultural touchstone. It’s not quite Science Fiction, though its set in “the future”, and unlike most Dystopian works in that it has a semi-happy and hopeful ending. Nevertheless, Fahrenheit 451 left these reviewers feeling [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is one of those books that lurked around the edge of my awareness for years, if only because of the unique title. Its aged pretty well, given that its original publication date was in the mid 1980s, and I’m sure someday it will be turned into a movie. [...]
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Posted on December 6, 2007 by scathingbookreviews
Stranger in a Strange Land is probably both Robert Heinlein’s most famous work and catchiest title. But let me tell you, if you’re a young adolescent reading his famous juvenile science fiction novels and you come across this -old RAH can never be read the same way again. It’s not MY favorite Heinlein [...]
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Posted on November 4, 2007 by scathingbookreviews
What can one say about Duneby Frank Herbert? Well, it made for an embarrassingly bad moviestarring Sting and Kyle Maclachlan, but beyond that, it’s considered a Science Fiction classic, and has influenced genre authors ever since it was first published in the 1960s.
It’s a little dry for my tastes if you know what I [...]
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