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Hope Reborn and Conqueror Book Review

Hope Reborn by David Drake and S. M. Stirling Contains the Forge and the Hammer Baen Publishing Enterprises, 2013 586 Pages, US$13.00 ISBN 978-1-4516-3877-6 Conqueror by David Drake and S. M. Stirling Contains the Anvil, the Steel, and the Sword Baen Publishing Enterprises, 2003 633 Pages, US$25.

The Long View 2002-12-21: The Two Towers

I find it refreshing to look back to 2002 and remember Peter Jackson's accomplishment in the Two Towers. That movie was just about right, long, but the source material was long and beloved. The temptation of Boromir is masterfully done, and Helm's Deep was even better

The Long View: The Fellowship of the Ring

I cannot remember the first time I read the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. I know I was very young, and I remember getting worn paperback copies from the local library's children's section. In that library, I remember a mural on the wall of

Shortcut Book Review

Shortcut Book Review

Alexander cuts the Gordian KnotShortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell our Greatest Ideas by John Pollack Gotham Books, 2014 $27.00; 256 pages ISBN 978-1-592-40849-8 I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. This was a fun little book. Pollack

Live, Die, Repeat Movie and Book Review

Directed by Doug Liman Written by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterwork, and Hiroshi Sakurazaka Starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, and Bill Paxton All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka Haikasoru 2009 $7.99; 203 pages ISBN 978-421560878 This is one story with three titles. The original Japanese light

The Big U Book Review

The Big U Book Review

NOT American MegaversityI picked up The Big U while I was organizing my library, and I decided to see if I still liked it ten years [at least] since the last time I had read it. It turns out, I do! For me, this is the perfect college satire, on

The Long View: Our Global Neighborhood

John's basic take on the report issued by the UN in 1995 on improving its own efficiency was this was a document written by hard-working, well-meaning bureaucrats. That doesn't mean it isn't also a revolutionary tract. Many of the complaints in this volume are