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Good read

Advantages: Extra material compared to film
Disadvantages: Kirk dies

Although the film may not have been brilliant, the book was and still is. The author has added scenes that could not be portrayed in the film such as the conversation between Kirk SPock and McCoy before the launch of the USS ENterprise B. This particular chapter is very moving and i have known people to cry over reading it. The book also describes things which were cut from the film due to costs or that the computers needed to do the required special ...
...book a while back and have read it many times, each time in one sitting because I have been unable to put the book down, which is a stark comparision to the film because that is no where near the standard of many of the other films such as first contact or the voyage home. ...

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Review of Star Trek Generations - J.M. Dillard

The best things come in small packages

Advantages: You can get your Dresden Files fix with a whole new plot
Disadvantages: Not as witty as previous novels

Hello everyone! Long time no review! Now i'm on my summer holidays, i can catch up on my "to review" list, and i figure, where's the best place to start than with my favourite author, Jim Butcher's, latest enstallment of the Dresden Files? If you look at my reviews, you'll find a full 8 of them on this series ( i didn't review White Night as SohoBlack reviewed it first, and i agree with his opinions) So....Small Favour. the 10th Drseden Files novel. ...
...is. What else have we come to expect from Butcher? Once again, Dresden, the wizard investigator in Chicago is on the trail of killers and kidnappers, and finding himself generally out of his depth. As the last novel required a little thinking on the readers behalf (all those badddies could get a bit confusing), in this enstalment, Butcher is simplifying the plot by showing clearly who the bad guys are: with the added bonus of the reader having already ...

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Review of Small Favour - Jim Butcher

Overcrowded rats go psycho

Advantages: Stylistically cool, sociologically inspiring, good action and characters
Disadvantages: First couple of pages are incomprehensible, get past them and you are cruising.

Brunner wrote this book 30 years ago, and it is a startling accomplishment. He may have got the timescale wrong, as he describes the world of 2010, but he hit the trends on the head and did it in a startlingly original way. The world he describes is overcrowded to breaking point, where people put under intolerable strain by the population density and eugenic and reproductive laws live lives of not-so-quiet desperation. The pressures are kept in ...
...as hobby, in everyday people regularly running amok and killing indiscriminately until they are shot down, in elaborate attention to fashion and consumer consumption. Power lies in the hands of huge corporations, decisions are effectively made by the semi-intelligent computers that advise them. Government murder, genetics, drugs and status are the key ingredients. All this comes to a head with a handful of wonderfully vivid characters being forced ...

Gervase 28.11.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner

"Aliens are coming"

Advantages: An entertaining read.
Disadvantages: Will not appeal to everybody, not even all science fiction fans.

This book I bought some time ago but have only recently got round to reading and re-reading. At first I thought it rather poor but I have changed my opinion since. A brief plot synopsis. This story set in the 30th century tells of the invasion of the human occupied part of the galaxy by an alien life form. This life form has been displaced from its own galaxy by a force they do not recognise. The distance displaced is meaningless as they can no longer ...
...no choice to survive but to colonise some other planets. Unfortunately these are already held by humanity. Following a long period of troubles humanity has colonised many star systems with different religious, economic or ethnic groups and has grown up to a certain extent. Wars are no longer fought. There are some small military craft that are used to discourage piracy but national armies are a thing of the past. Some military training still takes ...

Coloneljohn 20.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Soldiers - John Dalmas

Spider-man:TDH, I certainly saw a lot of night reading this!!!

Advantages: A detailed and thoroughly brilliant look at Spiderman
Disadvantages: Nobody will be allowed to talk to you for a good four/five hours

Spider-man: The darkest hours!!! Spiderman has always been the poor man's superhero, he has no money, barely any recognition as Peter Parker and the bigger superheroes tend to ignore him. Send a swarm of radioactive spiders into the slums of any big city and hundreds of spider-men would burst out of the woodwork, spandex suits and all. Well... actually the spiders would all die of radiation poisoning before they had a chance to do anything but hey, ...
...have read based on him, Spider-man: TDH is by far the best view into our Hero's problems when his alter ego once again forces danger onto his loved ones. Spider-man: TDH carries on from after Spiderman has defeated an ancient being known as Morlun, Morlun's brothers and sister arrive on the scene to show their anger at their brother's death, drawing Spiderman out by paying the mercenary Rhino to cause a ruckus. Just like their brother, these beings ...

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Review of Spider-man: The Darkest Hours - Jim Butcher