Lord Samper's Library

I spent a large chunk of yesterday trying not to fall asleep at my desk so I didn’t even try to read anything last night, know your limits and all that… ;o) Nope. I sat down, in the comfy chair, instead and watched a couple of movies; mostly because that was all I was good for but also because I’ve gone through a spell of watching disappointing films, just recently, and I really wanted to break that streak (it had gone on far too long). And you know what? You can consider the ‘Bad Movie Streak’ well and truly broken :o) A zombie movie is more or less guaranteed to always do that (apart from if it’s ‘Hard Rock Zombies’) but there was still room for another movie that I was pleasantly surprised by. Lets start with the zombie movie. ‘We Bury The Dead’ (2025) After an experimental EMP weapon is accidentally detonated off the coast of Tasmania, the populace of the island is utterly wiped out and the Australian government mounts a massive clear up operation with volunteers flown in to collec...

Just a quick post today… I spent yesterday with my daughters (which is always great) and today looks like it’s going to be a very busy one; this is the little bit of time in the middle where I can get something on the blog ;o) Yesterday was all about shopping in town, book shopping to be more exact. It was pretty much inevitable that we’d end up in Forbidden Planet and that’s where I took the opportunity to get caught up with my ‘Conan’ reading. I haven’t made it through the latest ‘Savage Sword of Conan’ yet but did manage to read the following in the meantime… ‘Conan The Barbarian #28’ – Zub, Dagnino, Rodriguez And I was doing so well collecting the single issues… That all came to an end yesterday when I found myself going to #28 without having picked up #27. It happens and it’s not as if I can’t go back and buy it later. I read on anyway though and yep, I really should have been better at picking up #27, that’s on me though. It’s not too hard to get back into the groove though and w...

  Page Count: 418 Pages ‘The greatest conflict this galaxy has ever seen reaches its climax and the players in this drama must congregate. From the lead actors to the chorus, where else in this melodrama could any soul of consequence be drawn?’ -  ‘The Fury of Magnus’ I’d blame it on middle age, if I could, but the truth is that I’m naturally awkward so when I saw these lines in ‘The Fury of Magnus’, my first thought was, ‘Really? Does everything have to be tied off neatly…?’ Because, really, does it? That’s not how life works, for everything that does come to an end, everything else keeps on moving and not necessarily in the same direction. When you’re looking at a ‘mega-series’ like ‘The Horus Heresy’ though, I guess there’s some justification for it, and I’m not just talking about the need to eke a few more coins out of readers. With a series of this length and the resulting size of the cast, everyone is going to have favourites that they follow and I guess it’s only fair t...

  Page Count: 168 Pages Well… The plan, for last night, was to finish off ‘The Shattered And The Soulless’ in time for today’s post and I was on track to get it done too. But there ended up being too much left to read, and not enough time to read it all in, so I quit while I was ahead. ‘The Shattered And The Soulless’ is proving to be a decent read but it isn’t one that I’m going to stress over finishing. If you’re reading this today, the odds are that I’ll be reading the last hundred and thirty(ish) pages, of ‘Shattered’, at the same time.  Anyway… Where does this leave me today? In my flat, books have a nasty habit of being moved from one pile to another (dependant on a whim or nice cover art) and it may be a little while before they catch my eye again. That’s my excuse for having left ‘The Nice House By The Sea’ unread for as long as I did, especially after I enjoyed ‘The Nice House On The Lake’ as much as I did. Last night was the night for finally getting round to it th...

  Page Count: 144 Pages I’ve never been a big fan of the ‘Trial of a Time Lord’ season of ‘Doctor Who’; although I do have the box-set lurking somewhere, maybe it’s time to give it another go (maybe…) What I’m a huge fan of though is poring through second-hand bookshops and finding old ‘Doctor Who’ novelisations, hidden away on the shelves, and that’s how I came across my copy of ‘Terror of the Vervoids’. It has taken me a while to get round to reading it (this particular bookshop doesn’t take great care of its books and this one required a little cosmetic work…) but I came across it again, over the weekend, and figured it was overdue a read. So, that’s just what I did… :o) The Time Lords have brought the Doctor to trial, accusing him of gross interference in the affairs of other planets. If he is found guilty, the Doctor must forfeit all of his remaining regenerations. In his defence, the Doctor tells of an adventure set on board the Hyperion III space liner, in his future. Answer...

  Page Count: 176 Pages Going to sleep late, and waking up early isn’t a great combination but that’s the way my body clock rolls and so I had a little extra time on my hands, yesterday morning. I’d rather have been asleep but here we are, hopefully today will be a quiet one. Anyway… That ‘little bit of extra time’ went on my reading the first volume of ‘Die!Die!Die!’, a book I’d picked up not so long ago but not managed to read, until it caught my eye yesterday morning ;o) We don't like to admit it, but this is an evil world where evil people do evil stuff all the time. Thankfully, there is a secret cabal with the United States government that works outside our normal system to influence world matters through targeted assassination. The world around us is manipulated right under our noses, mostly for the better... sometimes for individual gain. So if you're hurting people, somehow making the world worse than it already is, or even just standing in the way of something good hap...