Scott Sigler pimps the new book: Buying this book might not save Perry's balls, and it might make you loose sleep for a week, but you'll never regret it. books, video, youtube

Whilst I was out-and-about this afternoon I picked up the a short story collection by Matthew Wright called Fantastic Pasts - Imaginary Adventures in New Zealand History. The book takes several significant events in New Zealand history and either mo

Earlier today I finished reading The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall - a surreal romp of an adventure that sits somewhere between the bizarre oddities of Clive Barker or China Meiville (sans the grotesque creatures, although the Ludovician shark comes

A post in todays NZ Herald mentioned a new manga based Bible: A growing craze in Britain for manga, a Japanese style of comic packed with big-eyed, wild-haired characters, has inspired publishers to produce manga versions of William Shakespeare play

For the first time in what seems like years I'm taking next week for a holiday - nothing overtly fancy, just tripping around three cities in New Zealand (Hamilton, Palmerston North, and Napier (home town)) - main difference with this trip will be the

Amazon just told me Steven Lawhead has a new novel coming out soon in a few months. It's been awhile since I've read something by him, I'll be looking forward to this...

For the last few years that ever so slightly odd coworker Cas has had a fetish for Moleskines (well, she's probably been harboring said fetish since early childhood - favoring the blackened round corners over Barbies anontomically incorrect bust, but

A few months back I was talking to "sales clerk #3" at Whitcouls over in Bottany Downs and she'd mentioned a new book coming out soon written by one of their staff - it was a thriller/murder mystery with a supernatural twist which sounded pretty darn

Whilst loitering the isles of Whitcouls on the weekend I picked up This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson, I'm a long way off even starting this historic fiction novel but flicking through it a chapter dealing with early New Zealand jumped out at m

Well I just tried posting this comment over on David Farrar's blog but kept getting Apache errors, so am simply making it a post here: Is Harry a Horcrux? In order to make a horcrux, death is required right? So, two wizards get murdured, and a s

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Now, before the title of the post gets anyone worried, I've NOT gone suicidal... Tonight I saw The Amityville Horror, loved the film and I thought Ryan Reynolds did his character well, my only real beef with the film is there was no basement of bl

Tired of waiting for Max Barry's new book Company? How about a new short story to tide you over? Max just posted the story to his site ( printable RTF version here ). I know what I'll be reading on the train ride home.... comments to follow...

In a complete turnaround from my normal "over a year to read a book" state of being, a mere three weeks after finnishing Hidden Empire, the first book in Kevin J. Andersons mammoth space opera. Whilst devoid of any legitimate science ( its s space o

I picked up this book about a two years ago when it came out, I was just getting back into Sci/Fi novels and it sounded interesting, but as with alot of my books - I never got around to reading it... untill last month. I started reading the book l

Got a nice surprise in the mail today, mum sent me a copy of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I've been pondering grabbing a copy of this book for some time now, even though I have 3 bookcases of unread books to get through already, I guess the decis

As a final act of holiday adventures, I picked up 3 bookshelves from The Warehouse that mum/dad got me for Christmas and spent the afternoon putting them together then unpacking boxes of books. The only problem is, whilst reorganising the putting

Amongst the mass of newly arrived books from Amazon and "accidental" purchases from the Borders down the road, I found the following passage:...It's the ensuing election race that the full range of dirty tricks and media schemes and old-fas

Finnished reading Salt by Adam Roberts this evening on the bus ride home, an enjoyable and action packed sci-fi novel which draws plenty of parralells with the current "War on Terror" - neither side of the war were entirely in the wrong, an

I picked up this book along with two others by the same author a few months back after perusing the horror section at Borders just after getting paid ( always a bad combination ) - they sounded good, and so far I've found Writ in Blood to be an enjoy

So I just finnished reading Newton's Wake - it was a good read, a somewhat cross between The Sopranos, Stargate, and a backup policy schedule, complete with virus's from the makers of the world's most secure operating systems. Theres also virtualit

Quoting from this site:If you are a manager or a boss at a powerful corporation then it pays to treat your employees with respect. Number one they might come in with AK-47 and spray the office with bullets or they may realize that the pen is mightier