Pretty Little Liars
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As time has passed since Alison, then the queen bee of the bunch, went missing. Spencer, Aria, Hanna...
The Mountain Can Wait
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"Her face in the headlights flashed like a coin. She was an instant, the sulphuric flare of a...
Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon
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Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids...
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The Turquoise
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Santa Fe Cameron was named for the town where she was born, because her Scottish father and a...
Extreme Metaphors
J.G. Ballard, Simon Sellers and Dan O'Hara
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A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J. G. Ballard’s greatest interviews....
Star Wars Omnibus: Shadows of the Empire
Steve Perry and Michael A. Stackpole
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In the time between the events in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Princess Leia,...
David McK (3623 KP) rated Ready Player One in Books
Sep 19, 2021
Have also seen the movie mentioned below. It was just OK; not great.
<original 2016 review>
Prior to reading this, I'd heard good things about it, and was aware that - like seemingly nearly all of the current Young Adult Dystopian novels - there was a movie for it in the pipeline, by none other than Spielberg himself.
Set in the near-future, I found this to be like a cross between the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates (in that nearly everybody seems to live their life vicariously through other means), The Matrix (cyber reality) and maybe even a bit of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the MacGuffin that gets the plot rolling). it probably helps that - unlike the characters - I actually *was* a kid in the 80s, and so get plenty of the various pop-culture references made.
Plenty, but not all - this, remember, is set in America, so leans more towards the American or Japanese spectrum of popular culture than European.
David McK (3623 KP) rated Star Wars: Darth Vader, Volume 2: Into the Fire in Books
Oct 3, 2021
Both legs chopped off.
Only one arm.
Left on the lave beds of Mustafar.
No, we're not talking about the end of 'Revenge of the Sith' here, but about part of what happens to Vader in this, the second compilation of Greg Pak's run on the Darth Vader series of graphic novels (here, comprising issues 6 through 11), at the behest of The Emperor, who has found out about Vader's previous 'failings' from Volume 1 (Star Wars: Darth Vader by Greg Pak, Vol. 1: Dark Heart of the Sith in which he allowed his personal feelings to get the better of him.
This run also introduces Ochi of Bestoon - who The Emperor has sent to kill Vader - and actaulyl makes a better attempt at tying together the Original Trilogy and the Sequel Trilogy (with Vader discovering about, and travelling to Exegol and encountering the Sith Eternal) than any of those latter movies did!