by Didact | Dec 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Anyone who listens to heavy metal on anything approaching a regular basis has heard of Bruce Dickinson. He is, quite simply, THE best heavy metal vocalist out there today. There was a time when one could dispute that accolade. The case could be made that Ronnie James...
by Didact | Sep 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
There are a couple of books that I have been reading recently which serve to illustrate my long-held maxim that the truth can set you free- but damn can it hurt you in the process. Both of these titles were featured by friend and fellow shitlord Matt Forney, back...
by Didact | Sep 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Terrence Popp is quite a character. If you watch his Redonkulas episodes over on YouTube regularly (which I do), then you will see that he comes across as something of a roaring asshole. He is very sarcastic, very blunt, doesn’t give a damn about your...
by Didact | Apr 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Our good friend- or should I say, former friend?- Adam Piggott, the Gentleman Adventurer, decided to pull a Marc Antony and bury Caesar instead of praising him (by way of blatantly ripping off borrowing liberally from Don Rickles): Dear friends, dear...
by Didact | Mar 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Seen at a Barnes & Noble bookstore about 15 miles outside of San Antonio today: And this, let it be noted, is Tor Books’ most heavily hyped and promoted sci-fi author, in whom they have invested quite a serious chunk of change. The book just came out earlier...
by Didact | Mar 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
It would appear that our friends over at Tor Books are outraged- OUTRAGED, I tell you!!!- at the thought of some jumped-up johnnies from Finland and Italy jumping up and down all over their jumped-up Johnny’s latest magnum non-opus: We just received an...
by Didact | Mar 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
I recently finished the twelfth, and last, of Robert A. Heinlein’s famous “juvenile” novels, published when the late Grandmaster of science-fiction was approaching, but not quite yet at, the very peak of his immense literary powers. Now I am, of...
by Didact | Jan 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
When Vox Day decided to embark on the goal of writing an epic fantasy series that would rival George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire in terms of scope, character, plot, and quality, many mainstream critics and SF/F afficionados laughed at him. After...
by Didact | Jan 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Sea of Skulls (Arts of Dark and Light Book 2) by Vox Day (5.0/5) The Basic Instructions Before Lovin Eve by K. A. Peoples (3.0/5) Red Team Alpha: A Crimson Worlds Adventure by Jay Allan (3.6/5) Mutiny in Space by Rod Walker (3.4/5) Tunnel in the...
by Didact | Dec 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
As the last hours of 2016 wind down, it is time to go through a time-honoured tradition, stretching back to, uh, last year, before, um, whoever’s bothered to read this, in which I go over the best books that I read during the year. As with last year I’ve...
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