Lord Samper's Library

Not mine, my eldest daughters (I did my GCSEs far too long ago for them to make for an interesting blog post), I think she’ll be ok, she certainly put the work in, we just need to head to the school, later today, and collect her results. Wish her luck… :o) While I’m off doing that, let me leave you with some quick thoughts on some movies that I’ve watched recently. It’s a bit of a mixed bag this time round; some just weren’t up to much while others were more of a case of ‘right movie, wrong time’ (the focus is all on finishing up with work right now, not the best state of mind to settle down with a movie). Oh well, you can’t win em’ all… ‘Scared Shitless’ (2024) A plumber and his germophobic son find themselves working unpaid overtime when a callout for a blocked toilet turns into a battle for survival against a creature lurking in the pipes… Scared Shitless? Erm… I wasn’t and while toilet humour is a favourite brand of mine, it didn’t stretch to a whole films worth of humour. Steven O...

  Page Count: 144 Pages After all my talk, yesterday, of not diving straight into ‘Dark Creed’… Last night, I almost did just that. The days seem to be getting a little tougher, the closer my job comes to its end, and I wanted something that wasn’t going to be too demanding. Don’t judge me ;o) And then I ended up spending the evening with my ex-wife and daughters and I feel like I need to clarify. My ex-wife is the only ‘ex’, my daughters are still my daughters ;o) Damn I’m tired. Anyway… I still fancied a read, last night, but by the time I got back, there wasn’t time to get stuck into ‘Dark Creed’. There was time for an hour, or two, with Volume 3 of ‘Saga’ though so… As new parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, the family's pursuers finally close in on their targets. For one of them though, the reason for that pursuit has suddenly changed… Volume 3 of ‘Saga’ ended up being just what I needed last night. A read with plenty to say but also a re...

'Infested' did it first and I suspect, will take some beating. If you're like me though (can't speak French and have trouble focussing on sub-titles/actual movie all at the same time...), 'Crawlers' could be the 'spider infestation movie' for you. Check it out... There are thousands of spiders, and screaming victims, so... I'm in :o) 

  Page Count: 254 Pages (at least as far as the ‘Word Bearers Omnibus’ Collection is concerned) These days, I’m trying not to ‘read the sequel’ straight after finishing the first book; it helps me keep my reading ‘fresh’ but perhaps more importantly, it saves this blog from getting too repetitive. It has happened here before and it’s always a little awkward, isn’t it? ;o) Last night though… I’d just come off the back of the kind of Monday where it’s not only a Monday (which is bad enough) but also a Monday where I’ve only got ten working days left before my job finishes up. There were all sorts of confusing thoughts going round my head then and on days like that, well… Those days are exactly the kind of days where you jump straight into a sequel and blog be damned. I was after something familiar and a bit distracting, don’t judge me ;o) ‘Dark Disciple’ it was then and while I might just take a little break now, before tackling the final book ‘Dark Creed’, this ended up being just t...

  Page Count: 415 Pages This weekend was not a good one for reading or blog posts, you probably noticed ;o) Lets just say that it was far too hot and Cat 1 finally lost all patience with Cat 2. Not that Cat 2 really cared much at all, she just got on with the important work of polishing off Cat 1’s breakfast when she got the chance. Honestly, I’m just glad that both of them are back with their owner and no longer my problem ;o) (I miss them…) I did manage to read one book though, just the one (and mainly whenever the cats took themselves off to find a shady spot)… I found a copy of Anthony Reynolds’ ‘Dark Apostle’, Greenwich Oxfam (again), the other day, and while it was a re-read, that worked for me as it was just too hot to read something new. And I say ‘re-read’ but does it count if the last time you read it was seventeen years ago? Anyway… While I’d say never trust a Heretic Astartes (although the World Eaters are surprisingly honest about their aims), the Word Bearers are part...

  Page Count: 93 Pages While it hasn’t been a great week, it has been a pretty good week for reading and you know what…? I’ll take that, especially when I’ve got no plans for the weekend other than to keep on reading ;o) In the meantime, I thought I’d round off the working week with a Jack Ketchum novella that I found lurking in the back of ‘Red’ . And… When Janet’s car breaks down on a quiet road, her only real concern is how long it will take before she can flag down a passing car, any passing car. One lift, from a very angry motorist, later and it couldn’t possibly get any worse, could it?  Oh, it could. And it does… Before we get going, I feel like a little advance warning would be useful here. I’m not really going to go into the rape scene, in this post, but it does happen and that’s something that some readers may want to consider before reading ‘The Passenger’. It’s up to you. Ketchum doesn’t make it the focus of this tale but similarly to ‘Red’, it does happen. Anyway…...