Watchmen comic, I am sorry. I am really, really, really, sorry. In my Watchmen movie review, I was really nasty to you. Said you were another generic comic about people doning spandex. I didn’t see, I just didn’t see: I didn’t see […]
Well, it took me a while, but I’m finally through. Whew. His Dark Materials concludes its trilogy in the Amber Spyglass, and it shows: this book is about double the size of The Subtle Knife, part two of the trilogy, and about […]
Every time I read The Subtle Knife, I am completely amazed at the way it starts: it’s hard to tell this is a sequel to the Golden Compass. The Subtle Knife is completely different in every aspect: you’ve no idea where the […]
His Dark Materials is a series of books which, unbelievably so, work for me. The story’s progress is extremely dodgy, the themes are so hard that they kind of explode out of itself, and by the start of the third book, you […]
I’m always mixed about the Deathly Hallows. It’s okay as a book, but I can’t help but feeling disappointed – and not in a good way, either. As a climax for any series, it’d be a okay. As a climax for this […]
It’s the silence before the storm. It’s the eye of the tornado. It’s that one moment where you’re safe, but you know you’re in the middle of something big, something that’s going to explode soon. So what do you do, as a […]
It’s hard to like “the Order of the Phoenix” unconditionally. It’s obviously a good book – they’ve all been up to this point – but it feels a bit off. All of a sudden, the font’s smaller (at least, in the Bloomsbury […]
And we’re off! Playtime is over, it’s time to enter the big boys’ playground. It was bound to happen sooner or later – you’d be sticking your head in the sand if you said otherwise – and here it is: what started […]
Let me get right down to business: in my opinion, the Prisoner of Azkaban is the part of the Harry Potter series that defined the series and put it on solid ground, ensuring the critical acclaim of every book after it. It’s […]
Completely unexpectedly, the first Harry Potter book became an overnight success. Even though, as I have expressed in my rant, it has one big problem: it’s very fragmented. It could do well with the prefix “The adventures of” stamped in front of […]