World War Z

Brad Pitt is retired and living the good life of a stay at home Dad when something goes terribly wrong.  Zombies appear out of nowhere and a single bite turns a normal human into a zombie in ten seconds-much like the single drop of blood from those pesky infected in 28 Days Later. World War Z is a damned good movie-who doesn’t like the idea of all those annoying people who aren’t you turning into a monster you can shot over and over again? Our hero Brad is part of a handful of people who manage to keep just out…

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The Runes of The Earth

It’s hard to know exactly where to start here, which seems to be how Stephen R Donaldson felt when he decided to take one more trip to the well for The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.  The Runes of the Earth is filled with the retelling of tales any fan of the earlier books already know-and surely no one would pick this up and start reading here-so why all the backstory? The Runes of the Earth is a pretty bad book on countless levels.  It follows in the tradition of the Second Chronicles-give the readers something broken-by allowing long years…

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Evil Plans by Hugh MacLeod

Figure out what your gift is, and give it to people on a regular basis. ~Hugh MacLeod. Blogging has given us a world full of people who have a lot of mostly nothing to say and a strong desire to say it.  Successful bloggers are the ones that stick with it, get an audience, and keep giving that audience whatever it is that they liked in the first place.  This is a good deal harder than it sounds-as the countless failed blogs littering the internet can attest to.  Even if you happen to have the chutzpah to keep blogging every…

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