Movies that a better than the book We hear it a lot, don’t we? The book was better than the movie. This sentiment has come up countless times in my life, especially since my dad was a hardcore reader. He wasn’t shy about reminding me, over and over, how much superior the book was to […]
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This post is a companion piece to my former post on the series regarding Malazan Book of the Fallen. That post is about some of the misconceptions regarding the series along with my own thoughts on the reading experience. This post is about some helpful tips to get through the series. 1 Don’t expect to
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Intro I recently finished the fantastic epic fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I found the series to be profoundly brilliant with many heavy philosophical themes to chew on. I found myself pondering the many topics of the series long after finishing. The series has everything an epic fantasy needs, epic
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A year or so ago I made a post on the book Never Die. Where I celebrate it as a kickass and fun entry book into reading. The book is perfect for action anime fans who may want to read a bit. The book was self-published, and I tried doing my bit to give the
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The world is a scary place. We are thrown into the world with no prior experience. As we navigate this new and scary existence we seek guidance from others, yet no one else knows what to do, after all, they too are thrown into existence. This philosophy comes from the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. The
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The word outsider is being used to an extreme degree at this point. More and more works seem to invoke this specific word. Most of, if not all of these works are about, you guessed it, people feeling like outsiders in one way or another. However, I have reached my limit in how much I
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Stephen King is among my favorite authors ever. His insanely in-depth character work, wacky stories, and simple but super effective use of pros have made him a storytelling master the likes of which are rarely seen before. BUT! He is also very prolific and publishes multiple books a year. This brings the problem of “Where
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I have once again lost my mind in a futile pursuit of something everybody else would deem as “not important”. See, I have this love/hate relationship with the concept of genre or should I say hate/hate, for the concept of genre is totally removed from common logic. A genre is defined as “a style or
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Is the book always better? Can you ever adapt something fully? Why are people so obsessed with adaptations? Why are video game movies always so bad? All these questions and more will be answered in this post on adaptations where I will be laying out how to do it well, and how to do it
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Pawn’s Gambit is the second book in the Immortal Techniques series written by Rob J Hayes. I did a mini-review on the first book “Never Die” which I liked a lot. In the post I explain why I thought it was a perfect Getaway book for potential fantasy readers. Pawn’s Gambit differs from the first
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