Lord Samper's Library

So last week I was in the process of hitting a big reading slump and tackled that by picking up some comfort reading, albeit comfort reading that I’d never read before (If that makes any sense? You know what I mean). You’ve already seen my review for ‘They Came And Ate Us’ , which ended up being just the book that I needed last week, and now we’re onto the next book on that list… I love ‘Predator’ movies (yep, even that one, I love them all) but have never dug too deeply into the ‘book tie-in’ side of the franchise; I did read ‘South China Sea’ a long time ago but that’s about it really. When I saw ‘Concrete Jungle’ in the Brockley bookshop, I figured ‘why not?’ and promptly made it a ‘comfort reading goal’. I finished ‘Concrete Jungle’ last night and, well… Let me tell you all about it. With record-breaking heat come frayed nerves and a rising crime rate. New York City detectives Rasche and Schaefer are assigned to look into the most brutal murders they’ve ever seen – flayed bod...

I've got a real soft spot for movie novelisations, a throwback to days where if you didn't have a video player, the 'book of the film' was all you had to keep you going until the film made it onto the TV (usually at Christmas). I've also got a bit of a soft spot for Conan, and his sword and sorcery tales of high adventure, so it wasn't much of a leap to put the two together and end up with this post. Ideally, it would have been about the novelisation of the 1982 film but I had a quick look on eBay, said a quick 'nope!' and decided to go with the 2011 film novelisation instead (which luckily, was sat on one of my bookshelves, just waiting to be picked up). I finished 'Conan the Barbarian' late last night, the final book I managed to read from April's TBR pile , so let me tell you all about it... Born in the fires of battle, Conan of Cimmeria was raised to face the cold, merciless world with every ounce of strength and courage he possessed. A...