The One Tree by Stephen R Donaldson

The Matrix lost it’s way once the Wachowski Brothers decided the machines were the good guys and humans didn’t matter.  Once the Programs took the lead, the story was doomed. In The One Tree, Stephen R Donaldson starts down the same dark path that the Wachowski Brothers took-he begins to make mere humans irrelevant.  The fruit of his love affair with demi-gods will not ripen until the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, but the seeds are planted here. I still loved The One Tree, for all it’s nonsense about Elohim and The Worm of The World’s End and The Guardian…

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Cloud Atlas

In the future, past, and present four or five actors wear horrible makeup as they go about a number of random and pointless tasks which have occasional overtones of significance.  Mixed in with the mundane lives are several brutal and shockingly graphic moments tossed in for shock value. The four or five stories are a bit of a challenge to follow and there is a hint or two that there should be some sort of connection that is never adequately explained.  There isn’t even the basic sort of logic that the same actors are playing the same time hopping souls. …

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Dear Suzanne Collins

Are you a fan of The Matrix?  I love The Matrix, it’s a near perfect film with it’s classic hero’s story.  I loved the characters, I loved the story, and I loved the look of the film.  Then the Wachowski Brothers were seduced by all the money that a successful movie gave them and they forgot the story and characters in favor of special effects.  The next two films had so little in common with The Matrix that they might as well have been set in another universe. I love The Hunger Games.  It was original and amazing and gave…

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