1. Jasper Fforde                          Lost in a Good Book
2. Alex Stone                              Fooling Houdini
3. Charlie Brooker                       Screen Burn
4. Alan Moore                             Fashion Beast
5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky              Notes from the Underground

Just read a book that impressed me, more than anything I've read in ages, so thought I'd post my mini-review of it here ( Read more... )

“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”-and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change ( Read more... )

I went to Manchester yesterday. I didn't do anything particularly exciting but I'm trying to write more so I'm going to post about it anyway.

I went to the Museum of Science and Industry briefly, though I didn't explore most of it. I did see a massive 1948 computer and looked around the planes though. They had a kamikaze bomb, which I guess means ( Read more... )

The game finally arrived. Maybe it shouldn't have. Here's my review of Duke Nukem Forever.

[Duke Nukem Forever]
Game: Duke Nukem Forever
Developer: 3D Realms, Triptych Games, Gearbox Software
Publisher: 2K Games
Year: 2011
Reviewed: 2012
Platform: PC
Genre: FPS ( Read more... )

A grumpy gits uninformative guide to the upcoming games of 2012.
In alphabetical order, so you’ll have to hunt through to find the highlights. Written in random order and then rearranged for extra confusion.

( Previews of loads of games )

I'm currently playing The Witcher 2. The original Witcher was a decent RPG but with a few too many flaws to be a true classic. The Witcher 2 has fixed all of these and so far I'm thinking it's one of the best RPGs I've ever played. I think I'm currently about a third to a half of the way through so things could change, but I can't see that ( Read more... )

Several months after buying Watchmen, I finally got round to actually watching it the other night. I wasn't really expecting too much from it, and it didn't disappoint me or surprise me. It wasn't a dreadful film, but it wasn't an especially good one either.

Consider this a spoiler warning if anyone thinks it actually matters for this film.

( Thoughts on Watchmen )

First, I'll repost the poem that I posted the other week, and then deleted again a few days ago in one of my many random moments of doubt. I didn't think anyone would notice it was gone, but it seems curiositykate did so I'll post it and hopefully won't randomly delete it again this time.

( snow.click )

'Puter NosterOur parent, which art on C drive ( Read more... )