A movie of its era. The story is interesting, kept me guessing throughout and was pretty believable. This is a movie that I think would be a worthwhile addition to my movie collection.

I couldn’t even pass the first 100 pages it was incredibly bad.

Yes this genre is feeding off itself quite well at this stage.

It has regular citations of the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and the Da Vinci Code and while I agree that pointing out some of the historic flaws in the latter is a cause for me to start “wooting” on a fairly large scale, using The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (HBHG) as a serious source of information is bad. Indeed Gardner does point out some of the flaws in the HBHG but also uses some of their points to make his points. Now while there may be some truths hidden in the obfusction in HBHG it’s fairly well obscured in the rather flawed historical research.

When Gardner looks at art his training shows and he does know his stuff but sometimes really his leaps of faith require way too much willing suspension of disbelief, which I really can’t do. Nothing in the book is really different or original or strange but he does go through some of the points in the Da Vinci Code and point out their relationship with reality, which isn’t a bad thing, particularly if some of the multitude of fans of that blasted book actually read the thing. As pseudo history it isn’t a bad book but it’s not a great book.

This book has a familiar feel to it like it was one I read and enjoyed when very much younger, it tells the tale of three siblings, a girl and two boys, who do battle with their own fears and the magic of another world to save that world and to keep evil at bay in this. It has echoes of cold war running through it and a fewar of a total war to end all wars.
One to be sourced to enjoy over and over, it was lucky it made it back to the shelf.

Interesting series of victorian short stories based on or in New Orleans.

Honestly I didn’t care what happened to the characters beyond a certain natural curiousity and wouldn’t hunt up the rest of the series.
Nepanthe is being sought by Varthlokkur, however she has found love elsewhere. He has been waiting for a long time for her, holding death off with magic. Intelligently crafted but nothing I would long to read the rest of.

One of the best books I’ve read about surviving cancer, full of interesting alternatives, a little out of date but most of the information is actually quite good.

Although interesting it really doesn’t delve into the relationships of the characters so they appear a fair bit flat. I honestly preferred David Weber’s Excalibur Alternative which has almost the same premise but set in the Elizabethan era.

An okay fantasy that lacks a certain flow and doesn’t really induce searching for sequels, it almost reads like a singleton.

Interesting Sci Fi about a man whose family have a lot of power and what happens when they’re suddenly dead and his path to avenge them.