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Sleeping Giants  is a really cool book in a lot of ways.  I’m generally not a big fan of novels that are not written in a traditional manner.  The whole experimental style is usually not my thing since I think often times it is a gimmick being used because the writing...

  It appears that Terry Brooks is getting darker in his old age.  The second book in the Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy is a good bit more grim than most of his writing.  I don’t remember him killing off so many of his characters in previous novels and certainly...

Black Phone is the sort of movie that sneaks up on you and takes you for a ride that you don’t expect.  I didn’t have much expectations for this movie coming into it.  The only thing I knew about the movie was that it was based on a Joe Hill short story, but that...

Prior to reading The Outsider, I watched the mini series on Netflix, so I knew the basic story line.  In the early going of the show, they stayed true to the novel, but then diverged as it progressed.  The concept of the novel is very compelling.  Terry Maitland, a...

The third and final season of Lock and Key was a complete and utter disappointment.  This show clearly went one season too long.  I’ve never been a big fan of the show, but it always held my interest.  Mostly it was the concept of the show, with all of the keys and...

In book 2 of Daniel Arenson’s Requiem for Dragons trilogy, the book continues immediately after book 1 with little regard to bringing readers up to speed with what happened in the previous novel, which is fine if you are reading them one after the other like I did,...