Lord Samper's Library

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...

  Page Count: 123 Pages. Ooh, I’m not going to enjoy writing this post… Not because of anything to do with the book itself; more to do with the fact that I was over three quarters done with this post on Sunday night, only for my laptop to crash and lose the whole lot. I mean, yes, I should have saved a copy but that’s besides the point ;o) Anyway… I actually managed to get some reading under my belt, over the weekend, and ‘Doctor Who and the Underworld’ was what I like to call ‘the straightforward one’. Well compared to the more involved ‘Ring’ and whatever the hell was happening in ‘The Boys Omnibus Volume 2’… Yep, it was straightforward and that’s just what this Graeme needed (you’ll hear no apologies from me!) And it was fun too, let me tell you a bit about it… Exploring the very edge of the known universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 discover a group of astronauts searching for the lost gene bank of the Minyan race. During this perilous voyage, the astronauts’ craft plunges into t...

I know... A 'trailer post' followed by 'another trailer post...' Hear me out though :o)  I had a 'Doctor Who' post all written last night, right up until the point where my laptop crashed and lost it completely. I really wish I'd hit 'Save', just once... Anyway, I thought I'd have another go at writing it today but one of the cats brought a live sparrow into the house so my time was taken up 'sparrow rescuing' instead. Luckily, the cat is a bit stupid so the sparrow is fine :o) I'd pretty much given up on a blog post for today, at that point, until I was going through YouTube, over lunch, and saw that the 'Doomsday' trailer had just landed. It's looking pretty good, don't you think? Right, a little more work and then I'll see if I can remember what I wrote in that 'Doctor Who' post... 

Almost five years ago, I read James Murray and Darren Wearmouth's 'Don't Move' and, well... You can read my thoughts over Here but one of the things that I said about the book was that it was 'Definitely written with a movie in mind' (talking about the ending in particular but, the whole book really). Well... I'm not saying that anyone else outside of a few regular visitors, and some AI Bots, read my review but... Here's a trailer and all of a sudden, I'm really excited :o) 'Don't Move' will be in cinemas in September. In the meantime, do give the book a go if you get the chance; if you like 'giant spider horror', 'Don't Move' has you covered.