Entries Categorized as 'Reviews'

My trip to Barsoom

Filed under Reviews on September 21, 2009
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I owe a large part of my love for fantasy fiction to my parents’ bookshelves, upon which were stacked the works of Brooks, Eddings, Lewis, McCaffrey, Tolkien, and others. There was a mix of science fiction as well, but I shied away from the likes of Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. (I did read Chalker’s Rings [...]

Not a fan of Fafhrd

Filed under Reviews on October 28, 2008
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It’s been a while since I read a book on my “bucket list” of genre classics. I picked up an omnibus of the first three Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser anthologies: Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death and Swords in the Mist. I’m afraid to say that other than “Lean Times in Lankhmar”, I’ve found [...]

CSFF blog tour April 2007 (day 1)

Filed under Blog Tours, Reviews on April 16, 2007
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Welcome to another edition of the Christian Science Fiction & Fantasy blog tour. This month features The Return of the Guardian-King, the fourth and final book in Karen Hancock’s Legends of the Guardian King series. This was the first “Christian” fantasy (i.e., published by the Christian Booksellers Association) I’ve read. I’m going to break my [...]

CSFF blog tour: DKA day 2

Filed under Blog Tours, Reviews on October 31, 2006
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It is still October 31st as I write this. I hope you’ll forgive my tardiness, but my days recently seem to be lacking those few extra hours I need to get everything on my list done. The October 2006 issue of Dragons, Knights & Angels features 13 fiction pieces (two of which are classified as [...]

Review: Atlas Shrugged

Filed under Reviews on October 12, 2006
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It’s been a while since I read a 600+ page book that wasn’t written by Mr. Jordan. Ayn Rand’s Objectivism masterpiece Atlas Shrugged weighs in at 1074 pages. It took me over a month to read, and not just because it was long. I knew from the start that this was a book with a [...]