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So you have no right to comment on Dresden right?

I gave up quite early on after the whole "my culture is superior because we have moved beyond gender but I will still call everyone she despite despite recognizing the difference between genders" thing. Far too much like one of those websites where your not sure if they are taking the poss.

A) the death camp survivors agreed that bombing cities was better than relieving the camp suffering. B) Bombing rail lines was hard, you need to hit the marshalling yards, in the cities. Which kind off defeats the point. C) there were no convenient industrial parks on the suburbs to hit...

The Buried Giant by Kazuo ishiguro. I'm sure people have read the reviews and it is very good. Not historical fiction by any stretch of the imagination but too serious to be fantasy for critics. Very good though.

I assume large chunks will be edited out to avoid the inevitable internet outrage.

Under a graveyard sky by John Ringo. It has everything I love about zombie novels. Super competent protagonists, a fixation upon a tiny part of the whole zombie problem which keeps getting repeated to prove these zombies are unique, hatred of central government and plenty of hard men making...

Procrastination. I've even put up some shelves lately.

I wouldn't trust Spear's propaganda piece for any reliable information about the German industrial situation. Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze is much better.

The Expanse Series by James S A Corey. It gets a lot of flack but the series has a sense of scale, zombie mutations that no one has a clue about and people aren't hyper compatent/mind numbingly dumb.

Chances are the Tiger wouldn't even make it out of the factory in order to make its way to the embarkation area to catch a train to the fight. The things had a terrible reputation for reliability even amongst German tanks. Still assuming the Sherman's attack the factory then they will be in...

My first thought... I'd have hoped Harrison Ford would have enough saved away that he wouldn't need to do things like this at his age. My second... Just how many combinations of box sets will they be able to make?

There is still the minor problem of the black death on Iceland which lacked rodent populations.

Read it last year on holiday and loved it. He's not the ultimate man of so many survival stories but the mistakes he makes/smart stuff he does doesn't have you shouting at the book. The guy is smart and cross trained but you'd expect that on a Mars mission. there are also flashbacks and scenes...

I tried her first book but put it down when the plucky teen reporter stared down a couple of secret service agents. It's not necessarily her, more a trope I can't stand where journalists spout freedom of speech and everyone kowtows. Usually during a conspiracy that has killed people for ordering...

Personally Prime is worth it just for the delivery, my sense of entitlement makes the next day delivery even when ordered late Saturday seems worth a surprising amount of money. But the video streaming is a bit of rip off despite series like sons of anarchy being available. A lot of stuff has...

RIPD - a heavenly police department deal with those the have escaped judgement Not exactly high art but it's an entertaining film, a short (for these days) film that has a sense of humour. The terrible reviews and low internet scores are a bit of a mystery, there are so many worse films out there.

Station Eleven by Emily st John Mandel. A post plague apocalypse Canada where a theatre group travels between settlements. Only just started it but so far loving it, so much better than than my normal "super flu gives civilization a kicking" type of books. It helps I've seen King Lear recently...

The Deaths by Mark Lawson. Four rich families live in nearly indentical houses just outside a small village and have nearly incestous lives - they do absolutely everything together and don't have many (if any)ther friends despite the only thing they really have in common is location. One of...

The Guest. A stranger turns up at a family home claiming to have served with their dead son. Great fun and as one review said, a near perfect example of it's genre...just don't think too much about it. And to be honest it didn't go exactly as I thought.

I think I made it to Path of Daggers, maybe Winters Heart and realised when a friend was talking about it that I couldn't actually remember a thing that happened during it. Ok, a minor exaggeration but I'd obviously just staring at it and turning pages, only occasionaly actually reading what was...