Lord Samper's Library

Today sees me looking after my ex-wife's cats while her and my daughters are away. The kitten thinks I'm brilliant and has just been my little shadow since I've been here. The older cat, well... She absolutely hates me albeit with very good reason. Lets just say that I called the emergency vet out a couple of years ago, for something that ended up not being an emergency at all, and the cat has a very long memory, Anyway... That's all I've got on today so I'm going to hunker down and read, just read :o) I'm a couple of books ahead of myself and I want to see if I can keep that streak going, Also, I had an MRI scan on Friday (nothing serious, it just didn't help that I'm pretty claustrophobic) so I'm owed a little downtime. In the meantime, as far as the blog goes... As someone who watched the Warhammer 40K 'Ultramarines' movie back in the day (and was... underwhelmed), It's always a little bit of a treat, for me, to watch the latest tr...

  It doesn’t happen often but, it happens. As much as I want to finish everything I read, it doesn’t happen every time. Well, most of the time it does but every so often… And I’ll tell you what happens even less often. You can normally count on me finishing a book if it’s a ‘Black Library’ book. This time round though… Here we are. As the Empire’s mighty armies clash against the rampaging hordes of evil, they leave in their wake the detritus of war, including the dead and the dying. Resourceful Angelika Fleischer ekes a living by looting the bloody battlefields, searching for the trinkets and gold carried by soldiers of all sides. But an encounter with the mysterious Kopf brothers leaves Angelika desperate to discover the dark truth behind their quest to find their missing brother before the sweeping tide of battle overtakes them all. What I love about the Warhammer Fantasy books set in the Old World is that you really feel like you’re there. The best writers here, get that setting...

  Page Count: 160 Pages Apologies for the ‘blogging silence’ yesterday; I was trying to sort stuff out at work and sort the flat out, for an inspection, at the same time… I did it though! Well, I sorted the flat out, work might take a little longer to tame ;o) Anyway… I was looking at copies of Warren Ellis’ ‘Black Gas’ and while I balked at the price, Volume 1. of ‘Trees’ was a lot more affordable so I figured ‘what the hell’ and took a chance. I’ve never said that my reading choices are based on any kind of decision process other than impulse or, at the very most, whatever catches my eye (which, now I think about it, is the same thing) Anyway… One day, I’ll find an affordable copy of ‘Black Gas’ but for now, I’m very glad I took a chance on ‘Trees’. Let me tell you all about it. Ten years after they landed. All over the world. And they did nothing, standing on the surface of the Earth like trees, exerting their silent pressure on the world, as if there were no-one here and nothin...

  Page Count: 128 Pages Despite all my best intentions, my reading plans pretty much collapsed, over the last few days, and there was only one thing left to do… Rip up all my plans and start again! It’s not like I don’t have plenty of other books to choose from when I hit a slump ;o) And where better a place to pick myself up and start again than another old ‘Doctor Who’ Target novelisation? Nope, me neither ;o) For far too many years, ‘The Power of Kroll’ had sat, filed under ‘Hadn’t read it since I was a very young Graeme, vague memories of not being that impressed’ but I saw a cheap copy and had to give it another go. I mean, it couldn’t have been that bad… Could it? Well… ‘Six or seven year old me’ was a far harsher critic than ‘middle-aged, just wants a little fun with his reading’ me but I can kind of see where he was coming from… The huge, octopus-like Kroll lived deep in the swamps of the humid, steamy planet. To the native swamp-warriors, Kroll was an angry, mythical god. ...

My reading has kind of stalled over the last few days; there’s a few reasons for it but honestly, nothing that you’d be interested in hearing about. I’m just going to dust myself down and take another shot at it this week instead; that’s all you can do sometimes ;o) As is often the case here; when I’m not finishing books, I tend to watch more movies instead. That’s what happened over the last week and it ended up being a bit of a mixed bag. Let me tell you all about it… ‘Society’ (1989) A Beverley Hills teen feels increasingly alienated from his wealthy family but there’s far more to it than even he realizes. I love ‘body horror’ and I’ve been meaning to watch ‘Society’ for years now, so when I saw the movie was on ‘Shudder’, watching it was inevitable ;o) Now that I’ve seen it, I have to say… erm… You watch ‘body horror’ movies for the practical effects (well, I do) and ‘Society’ does not disappoint. I got what I came for, that’s the bottom line. Plot-wise though, that’s where the fi...

It been quiet on the 'Books for the TBR Pile' front just recently but like the title says, all it took was last week's payday (and a rough week at work, mustn't forget that) to kickstart the whole thing again :o) At least for now that is, I've actually been having fun 're-discovering' books and don't want to lose that. Anyway... The blog was all quiet yesterday, mostly because I made a concerted effort to sleep as long as possible (didn't set any records but that's ok) but also because I took myself into Greenwich for a little book browsing that inevitably became book-shopping. Lets have a little look at what came home with me... Three books from the Greenwich Oxfam and one from the Waterstones over the road :o)  Regular visitors to the blog will know that I already have a copy of 'The House On The Borderland' but what I didn't have was a copy of 'The House On The Borderland' with cover art by Ian Miller. I will never pass up...