Tag Archives: science fiction

Book Review: Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Tietsu

Yeah, alright. I did it. I told myself I wouldn’t, but here we are. After reading twelve goddamn Philip K. Dick books and finding only a handful that didn’t piss me off as lyricless, drug-laddled sci-fi dime novels, I told … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Tietsu

There is something about Yahtzee Croshaw that has always appealed to me. I discovered his Zero Punctuation just before it got picked up The Escapist back in 2007. His disdain for tropish literature and general cynicism for, well, everything puts … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Tietsu

It’s a weird world and I’m weird man, in a weird place, not unlike the world Atwood writes about here. The way it’s written though, it’s different, strange, lyricless when compared to her other work. There is this self-aware lack … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Tietsu

Heinlein has always struck me as the weakest of The Big Three. His writing isn’t as good, his stories often lacking in any truly big or interesting ideas. He always felt more like a holdover from the adventure magazine days … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Dark Tower by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #7)

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Tietsu

This book is strange. It brings the dark tower series to an end but it does so with an awareness that seems to call to King to take and try every possible narrative strangeness he can muster. It was visible … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Song of Susannah by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #6)

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Tietsu

Finally, we are back to proper pace. No longer strangling back in the rooms of the past or the empty pathways of a dusty, broken town, we are dragged back into a rhythm closer to that of The Drawing of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #5)

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Tietsu

This book suffers in much the same way the fourth book does: it is slow. Walks when it needs to run, as if fighting against itself, fitfully roving towards a pay off like a damp-fused firework. King seems to try … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4)

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Tietsu

This book is a mess. The prologue is a poorer version of the third’s final chapter. The rest of the book seems clumsily contrived to force out the truth of Roland’s past. And so we are left with 100 pages … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Waste Lands by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #3)

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Tietsu

“My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that purs’d and scor’d Its … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #2)

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Tietsu

“Yes, yes, honey, I know you wish to stay up longer, but daddy must watch a gunslinger procure antibiotics from a pharmacist. No honey, I don’t expect you to understand. I expect you to sleep. Yes, daddy loves you, but … Continue reading →

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