Tag Archives: Monty Python

100th Post: A Total review of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe including the book, audiobook, radio programs, TV programs and movies associated with them!!! by Douglas Adams

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Thomas Evans

In celebration of my 100th post, I review a classic of Science Fiction: The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: the books, the audiobooks, the radio series, the TV series and the movie. Continue reading →

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Barking, Tom Holt (Orbit, 2007)

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Thomas Evans

Barking is a comic urban fantasy that kept me laughing throughout. For those of you who have never heard of Tom Holt, he is to Urban Fantasy as Terry Pratchett is to High Fantasy. He is a master of weaving subtle jokes and the absurd into good plots and this book is no exception…. see http://www.sophyanempire.wordpress.com Continue reading →

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Anathem, Neal Stephenson (William Morrow and Company, 2008){ Audio Version Macmillan Audio, 2008: Narrator: William Dufris, with Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert and Neal Stephenson)

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Thomas Evans

Anathem is a book that breaks all the rules and is all the better for it. Set on the world of Arbre, it is the story of Erasmus (or Raz), an aesthetic living as an academic within the monastic like setting of his Concent. Told in a manner that drew me and my thought processes into those of the characters, this book excelled in creating a believable and thought provoking world. This story is definitely not for everyone, however, and even I found it dragging at times. Even so, it proved one of the best reads I have had in a long time.
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