Lord Samper's Library

I love going to the cinema but these days (what with the cost, my being a grumpy middle-aged man and oh yes, my job coming to an end), I don’t go as often as I’d like. Basically, if I am going to go, it has to be the kind of movie where you can’t imagine watching it on the TV without having seen it in the cinema first. You know what I mean ;o) I’ve been pretty excited about the new ‘Masters of the Universe’ film but it didn’t quite meet the threshold for a cinema trip; don’t ask me how I came to that decision, it just didn’t. What I wasn’t expecting though was for the movie to end up on Prime (and free to watch) quite so quickly… I don’t follow the numbers too closely but I had heard that the movie didn’t do too well at the box office; was Amazon trying to claw a little extra revenue back by dropping it into Prime early? Or was I just overthinking it when I could have been watching the movie…? Either way, I thought I’d give ‘Masters of the Universe’ a go, so that’s what I did last nigh...

  Page Count: 253 Pages (I didn’t read them all though, not this time) Before I kick this post off, I just want to start off by saying that I’m pretty proud of myself over here :o) Yep, I’ve made it through ten days of ‘cat-sitting’ without mistakenly calling out the emergency vet; you’d think that’s a low bar to aim for but it’s a surprisingly easy one for me to miss completely. And ‘Cat Number One’ really knows how to hold a grudge. Anyway, lets actually talk about the book, shall we…? ;o) When I’m trawling charity shop bookshelves, I will invariably grab any Black Library book that I come across, especially the older ones that seem to go for an absolute fortune on eBay. If you don’t take a chance right there, you might not get another one; it’s either that or I just really want to buy a book (any book…), both reasons are valid as far as I’m concerned ;o) Now a lot of the time, this approach will more or less guarantee me a decent read but every now and then, I get one that doesn...

We all know that I've spent the last week looking after my ex-wife's cats (at time of writing, only for a few more hours...) but what people may not know is that I've also spent the last week fighting a secret war. A secret war that I must always fight, if only because I've never managed to land the decisive blow. And this last week was no exception... Yep, it's summer and I've spent the week squaring off against at least one mosquito (likely more) that is quite literally out for my blood. The end result? A very fat, content mosquito and me heading out to find something to stop my legs looking like pepperoni pizza ;o) I couldn't sort that problem out but, no surprise to anyone, I ended up buying a few books instead. Of course I did... ;o) Presented by, well... I haven't named him yet but he was happy to carry on in the meantime. Anyway... As seems to be the rule these days, all three books were found in Greenwich Oxfam :o) I've always meant to read J...

I'll be honest... After the news about my job, on Tuesday, my brain is (a little bit) scrambled right now and I'm just trying to make it to the weekend. Luckily for me, it's Friday ;o) There may be a 'short story post' later, lets just see how work goes in the meantime, but for now, here's the official trailer for the new 'Resident Evil' - out in September. It's looking more and more like a real departure from the Mila Jovovich movies but, I'm feeling pretty optimistic...

  Page Count: 376 Pages Just a quick one today as I’m trying to wrestle work into shape before I head out of the door; oh yes, and try to sort my CV out as well. Fun times :o) This is the furthest I’ve ever made it into ‘The Boys’ though (at least until I can make it back to my flat and grab Volume Three) so I wanted to get something posted here before I have to get to grips with the other stuff. So, with that said… Desperate to understand the world that he’s now a part of, Hughie turns to the man behind it all – the bizarre figure known only as The Legend. Sixty years of the Vought-American corporation’s superhero agenda for America are soon revealed, with the worst of the secret of all beginning on 09/11/01. As Hughie’s affair with the beautiful young Annie January blossoms into love, The Boys take a run at Vought’s number one franchise, the G-Men, but neither they, G-Force, G-Coast, G-Style, G-Wiz nor the G-Nomads are about to give up their slice of the G-Pie. For the worst...

  Page Count: 367 Pages Excuse me while I vent, just a little bit… Yesterday was a crappy one; in the morning I found out that my teams function is being outsourced and my job will come to an end at the beginning of September. To be honest, I did see it coming but I didn’t see it coming yesterday morning :o( Life just got a little more complicated and I’m not sure what this will mean for the blog. I suspect I’ll be trying to strike a balance between job-hunting and letting off steam here by talking about books and stuff. We’ll see how it goes… Thanks for bearing with me, ‘normal service’ will now resume. Sorry about that :o) Anyway… While I’ve seen ‘Ringu’ and ‘The Ring’ (1 & 2), I’ve never come across any of the books that the films were based on; until the other day :o) I was passing through Greenwich, saw ‘Ring’ in Waterstones and thought to myself, ‘it’s now or never, isn’t it?’ So… Doomed to die, one way out, one week to find it. The body of a young girl is found at her ho...