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David McK (3600 KP) rated Free Guy (2021) in Movies
Aug 27, 2021
Latest - at the time of reviewing - Ryan Reynolds starrer, in which he discovers he is actually a NOC (non Player character, for the uninitiated) inside a video game, that bears more than a passing resemblance to that of GTA online (or so I'm told).
Set in both his, and the 'real' world (to which he cannot cross over), I felt that had quite a bit in common with the likes of 'The Truman Show', 'The Matrix', 'Ready Player One', maybe even a bit of 'Pixels' thrown in, but is none the less quite enjoyable, with Taika Waititi stealing the show (and with Guy's best mate cop running a close second)
Set in both his, and the 'real' world (to which he cannot cross over), I felt that had quite a bit in common with the likes of 'The Truman Show', 'The Matrix', 'Ready Player One', maybe even a bit of 'Pixels' thrown in, but is none the less quite enjoyable, with Taika Waititi stealing the show (and with Guy's best mate cop running a close second)
David McK (3600 KP) rated BattleTech: Break-Away (The Proliferation Cycle #1) in Books
Aug 26, 2025
I picked this novella up cheap, and I'm glad it was (cheap): I would have felt cheated if I'd paid full price for it.
It also has rather an unusual setting for a Battletech novel - right at the beginning, before the Battletechs are even a thing.
There's none at all in this novella, other than a couple of references to a top secret weapon that is being developed, with a small group of soldiers out on training exercises to see who would get to pilot said weapon.
SO, in short, a read-it-and-forget novella, kind of like eating a sweet between meals.
It also has rather an unusual setting for a Battletech novel - right at the beginning, before the Battletechs are even a thing.
There's none at all in this novella, other than a couple of references to a top secret weapon that is being developed, with a small group of soldiers out on training exercises to see who would get to pilot said weapon.
SO, in short, a read-it-and-forget novella, kind of like eating a sweet between meals.
David McK (3600 KP) rated A stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories in Books
Dec 29, 2024
This, really, and as it says on the tin (so to speak) is a collection of short stories penned by the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett back when he was first starting out on his journalistic career.
So we're talking back, mainly, in the late 1970s and perhaps early 80s, before the Discworld series for which he is most renowned came to be.
As such, none of these are as polished as his later works, although it is interesting to see early glimmers of ideas that would later be fully fleshed out (mainly, but not exclusively, in the Discworld series) in several of these stories.
So we're talking back, mainly, in the late 1970s and perhaps early 80s, before the Discworld series for which he is most renowned came to be.
As such, none of these are as polished as his later works, although it is interesting to see early glimmers of ideas that would later be fully fleshed out (mainly, but not exclusively, in the Discworld series) in several of these stories.
