Sometimes I get trashed for not making my characters likable enough. They’re pricks or even downright assholes and so many people tell me you can’t write a novel if the reader doesn’t care about the protagonist. Apparently the world needs more cute boy wizards and angsty girls with no personality. To those people I say, [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by ryan
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Sometimes you just don’t have time to say I love you, but you can still show it.
Stephen King is releasing a new book just before Christmas, how fortuitous. It’s called Full Dark, No Stars. Kind of an emo title, but I’m sure King will make it all so much more awesome. There will be four [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2010 by ryan
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Man, this book was some weird shit.
I could almost leave it at that. Michael Moorcock just spent like 160 pages melting my brains out my ears. This is how.
The Final Programme is the first Jerry Cornelius book. Jerry is a good old British lad who doesn’t mind a bit of the old spy skullduggery and [...]
Posted on March 30th, 2010 by ryan
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I mentioned my new interviewing gig the other day on here. I just wanted to get back to it, probably, one last time. This last bit will really explain why I like interviews so much.
I read Playboy for the articles. There, the truth is out. I am that one guy. Get the sniggering out of [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2010 by ryan
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Writers generally love to read, and this extension brings them to love to write. As I’ve said before, and I stole it then, to write is terrible but to have written is the most amazing feeling in the world. Part of that feeling of having written is getting the chance to go back and read [...]
Posted on February 25th, 2010 by ryan
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It took Stephen King years, decades even, to write Under The Dome. He had the idea kicking around since forever and even once wrote a stack of it only to throw it all out as unsatisfactory. Yet he still knew that one day he would get back to it. He says he remembered the first [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2010 by ryan
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I have always been a massive fan of the movie of High Fidelity and I know that this has most likely warped my eventual reading of the book. But, I am not convinced that this is necessarily a bad thing.
Perhaps it’s just because I feel that all the actors involved in the flick did a [...]
Posted on January 1st, 2010 by ryan
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Edgar Rice Burroughs paints us two portraits in his book; one of a dense and historic Martian landscape where warfare is business and business is good, and another of a gentleman from the olde school who can duel to end life just as easily as he can strip all armour and profess undying connection to [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2009 by ryan
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It’s the end of the year and I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you’re gonna hear about them. Yes, I’m celebrating Festivus, as usual, and the feat of strength is to find a top entrant for each arbitrary aspect of the year I feel like grieving about. Well, what are we [...]
Posted on December 27th, 2009 by ryan
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I’ve discovered an author this year and he’s gone two for two. It’s rare that an author pleases me just as much with two separate works. If he gets a third he’ll officially be in. Sometimes an author will prove rock solid gold, and near all they write is a style you appreciate. Sometimes an [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by ryan
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