Lord Samper's Library

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.

Sorry it has been quiet here these past couple of days… I’ll be honest, the mixture of medication that I’m on (and the heat) left me absolutely shattered and in no fit state for work, or blogging. So, I did neither :o) Took a couple of days off sick (back into work on Monday) and didn’t even think about blogging. I have been up to other things, mostly cat-sitting (the girls and my ex-partner are away) and all the ‘fun’ that entails – no pun intended ;o) At the time of writing, the cat ‘most likely to do a runner’ is snoozing on a chair; the cat ‘most likely to snooze on a chair’ legged it after dinner and hasn’t been seen since. I’ve got another week of this :o) What I also have though is access to my ex-partner’s Disney+ account and I’ll be using it, over the week, to catch up on, well… I don’t know :o) Any recommendations? I do know that I am way behind with my ‘MCU watching’ so yesterday, I figured I’d put a little dent in that list and... ‘Thunderbolts*’ (2025) When a group of spec...

  Page Count: 124 Pages So yesterday was sick leave (nothing serious, don’t worry) and I spent the day in my trusty comfy chair, working my way through ‘Todd and the Book of Pure Evil’ (funnier than I thought it would be). Luckily for this post, I also spent a chunk of my time reading ‘Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon’; a book that I haven’t read since, erm… a long time ago. Yep, this is one of those posts where I end up feeling really quite old… Anyway, a re-read then but it had been so long that it felt like I was coming to the book for the first time. Let me tell you about it… Fifty years after his first visit to Peladon, the Doctor returns to find that Queen Thalira has inherited a troubled kingdom from her father. Membership of the Galactic Federation was expected to bring peace and prosperity to the planet, but the spirit of the sacred monster Aggedor is once more spreading terror and death. The Doctor uncovers a treacherous plot to steal the mineral wealth of Peladon, a...

  Page Count: 405 pages After a ‘not so great’ experience with ‘Domain’, I really needed my next read to be a decent one, that’s what led me back to ‘Carnage Unending’; an anthology that I’d started reading, about a month ago(ish) but had somehow found its way way to the bottom of a pile of books on my desk. It’s funny how that seems to happen fairly regularly at the moment… Anyway :o) I figured a little ‘Warhammer 40k’ reading would be a safe bet and I’d already read a fair chunk of 'Carnage Unending' so it would be a fairly quick read as well. As it turned out… Both of these were true, to a point. I’m not going to go into my usual ‘something for everyone’ spiel (oh, hang on…) but lets just say that for me, ‘Carnage Unending’ was a decent palate cleanser after ‘Domain’ with a varied set of tales from the sides of ‘Imperium’ and ‘Ork’. The other thing I realised is that after a ‘negative read’, I am much less inclined to stick with a story if it’s not doing it for me. I’m sure ...

  Page Count: 482 Pages (I skimmed a lot of pages though, that should tell you something right away…) Now here’s a book that I first read at high school and my latest copy has been sat on my bookshelf since August last year, waiting patiently to be read (in the way that only a book can). The last time I read it was back in 2014 and to be honest, I didn’t particularly enjoy it . It has been a few years though, and the other two books have featured here so… It felt like time to round things off and have the full trilogy feature on the blog. I know, sometimes that's all it takes for me to decide on my next read ;o) Still not keen on it though, at least I can say I’ve (re)read all three books now. The long dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets – if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes, But below, the rats, demonic offspring of th...