Monthly Archives: June 2008

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

By Jon Magne | Published: June 26, 2008
As I turned the last page of this book late Sunday afternoon, I began to contemplate the glowing review I was going to write about it. I envisioned a vast array of hyperboles and interesting comparisons, and then I’d end it all with saying “Yes, this is definitely the début of the year. Read it [...]
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Amazon, I Love Thee So!

By Jon Magne | Published: June 23, 2008
Amazon is a fickle bitch. Two days ago I put down an order that they’re masterful system managed to disappear without a trace, like it somehow decided that this particular mixture of books and comics was too awesome for my mortal mind and decided to enter the goodness into its very own version of the [...]
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‘Wanted’ by Mark Millar & JG Jones

By Jon Magne | Published: June 19, 2008
Do you ever feel like the world conspires against you, that there are sinister powers that sometime twitch your little puppet strings to make you adhere to their dance macabre? Well, do you? Because I don’t. Believe, that is, that there is something like faith that goes into this phenomenon. It’s called marketing, people, and a lot [...]
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School’s Out, Life’s In

By Jon Magne | Published: June 18, 2008
It’s always a weird feeling to walk out the doors, knowing that you won’t be back for two whole months. You can’t quite believe that it’s true; almost as if the teachers have managed to inflict a strange form of the Stockholm syndrome on you. I stand there, wondering if they’re going to call me up [...]
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BSGx4×10 – “Revelations”

By Jon Magne | Published: June 14, 2008
This is easily the best episode of anything I’ve seen in… well, since BSG was this good (and I don’t really know if it has ever been this good). And please note: Easily the best. Not just a tad better, or an inch or two. We’re talking miles here, people. Lightyears even. I mean, holy frack; [...]
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“Lost” So Far

By Jon Magne | Published: June 11, 2008
(Those palm trees sure have some freaky looking shadows…) Ah, the plot thickens! Or rather, the plot’s so thick that no one can quite figure out what is any longer. Four seasons and a shitload of more or less inexplicable events into the show, I’m kinda sitting here, *hoping* that the writers know where they’re going, [...]
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Thoughts On ‘the Amber Chronicles’ by Roger Zelazny

By Jon Magne | Published: June 7, 2008
When you buy as many books as I do, you always end up having to put some of them aside for later. “For when I have time,” you think, or, “when I’m in the right mood”. Well, I have a lot of such books that I really should get around to, but that never seem [...]
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

By Jon Magne | Published: June 1, 2008
If you’re remotely interested in blogging, science fiction or maybe just the internet in general, then you’re bound to have encountered Cory Doctorow. He’s like a the bespectacled little demi-god of the intertubes; even if you don’t worship him, you know he’s out there, looking down at you from somewhere… preaching knowingly about Creative Commons… [...]
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