The Short Version
Platform: Xbox 360
One Word: Depth
Two Words: Swarming Splicers
Worth It: Yes
Scale: terrible | poor | fair | good | great
The Long Version
I’m pretty torn about giving BioShock 2 only a “good” and not a “great” rating. I mean, here is a game far more ambitious in its storyline and symbolism than 90% of the [...]
I don’t normally post a lot about music on this blog because I’m way too old and boring to be on the cutting edge anymore (if, indeed, I ever was … which is questionable). Also I’m really picky so it’s rare that I find more than one album at a time that I really dig. [...]
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
In the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling really begins to embrace the darker tone that she first begins to explore in the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the result is a book that I found more engrossing than any of the [...]
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really didn’t expect that it’d be so easy to find a book that’s even more depressing, startling, and at times outright uncomfortable than Requiem for a Dream, but all one really has to do is look to Selby’s earlier work, Last [...]
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
My review
rating: 2 of 5 stars
I’m going to go ahead and guess that my review of Twilight is going to sway neither the book’s legion of fans, nor its serious detractors. In all honesty, I’m kind of torn about reviewing the book at all. Its first-person protagonist is a seventeen year-old [...]
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
While not quite as brimming with homoerotic undertones as the first in the series, Throne of Jade nonetheless presents the reader with plenty of repressed man-dragon love to go along with a few aerial battles, a murder plot, and an interesting encounter with a [...]
Let the Right One In: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Like many Americans, I saw the movie version of Let the Right One In before reading the book, and enjoyed it quite a bit. This led me to pursue the book and, as is almost always the case for [...]
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hubert Selbey Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream is a hard book to read … not due so much to its sensitive subject matter, which is frankly riveting, as to Selby’s unconventional, stream-of-consciousness prose. The guy barely believes in basic punctuation marks, let [...]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
One has to remind one’s self, while reading the Harry Potter series, that they’re meant for children in the 10 – 14 range, give or take, and not for a married guy in his early thirties who’s simultaneously reading Hubert [...]
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
Ray Kurzweil has been accused by some as being incredibly optimistic in his vision for the future of humanity and the computer’s that we’ve created. His predictions, however, have an uncanny way of coming to pass, at [...]
