Category: Books
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The Hobbit: By the Cover
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article discussing the importance of a book’s cover. It was a lot of fun and I’d highly suggest you read it. That’s possibly one of my favorite posts of the year this far. Mainly because it gave me a fun idea. Today, I’m going to analyze yet another…
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The Time of Contempt: The Blood of Elves Part 2
I’m starting to think that this is another Lord of the Rings situation, where all the books were originally supposed to be one, bigger book. I’ll need to look into that later. After I finish reviewing this one. Picking up some time after ‘The Blood of Elves’, this book continues the tale of Geralt, Yennefer,…
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Alan Grant: Movie VS Book
In my review of the Jurassic Park movie, I swore I wouldn’t compare it to the book. That’s because I’m going to do exactly that here, in this article. If you have a problem with that for some reason, then… I was gonna say I was sorry, but to be honest, I’m really not. Making…
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The Magician’s Nephew: Narnia’s First Day. Literally.
The Chronicles of Narnia is one of those series that I’ve known about for… well, my entire life, basically. C.S. Lewis is an author I’ve been passingly familiar with for many years now. Yet, for some reason, I’ve never actually read any of his works. I’ve seen all the Narnia movies, but that was all…
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Jurassic Park: A Book or a Movie Script?
The Jurassic Park franchise is a strange one. At this point, there have been five movies, with a sixth on the way, but only one of them has been widely considered any good. Yet all of these films have been massively successful. So much so that people often forget the book that started it all.…
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