Lord Samper's Library

Page Count: 112 Pages When I was in Forbidden Planet last week, I thought I’d try and be good, sticking to the ‘Sale’ shelves while my daughters trawled through the Manga. ‘Freeway Fighter’ was sat there and it was only 99p so I thought, ‘why the hell not?’ ;o) I was a massive ‘Fighting Fantasy’ fan back in the nineteen eighties and am still partial to the occasional trip back to Darkwood Forest, Port Blacksand or Deathtrap Dungeon. I really need to go back to Firetop Mountain and finish it once and for all… Anyway :o) I didn’t spent a lot of time with ‘Freeway Fighter’, back in the day, but did enjoy and thought the setting would be worth exploring a little more so… that’s what I did. Bella De La Rosa was heir to a great I-400 racing tradition before the virus hit, before most of humanity was wiped out, and civilization fell. Eighteen months after the collapse of society, she and her blue and red Interceptor prowl the remnants of what once was America, eking out a life among the ruin...

'Alien: Romulus' deserved to have a post all to itself but I have been watching other movies over the last few days. This is a quick post where I can get them all in one place and say a little bit about them all. You know, like all the other movie posts here ;o) Here goes... 'Final Days' (2020) As the world crumbles outside, Aidan barricades himself inside his flat. With the infected at his door, Aidan finds that it's the loneliness that is the greatest threat to his sanity. Until one day, he looks out of his window to see a fellow survivor in the flat opposite... 'Final Days' has been sat in my queue for far too long so the other day, I took the plunge and gave it a watch. It's not a bad movie, a little lightweight and straightforward but tense in all the right places and an interesting study in loneliness. What I really got the most out of though was taking the time to listen to what the infected were screaming as they did their thing, it added an int...

If there’s one reading habit of mine that I’ve finally come to terms with, it’s that I will always be the last one to the party. I will be so late, in fact, that the party has long since finished and become the subject of legend; the party you really missed out on if you weren’t there right at the start. If you’re me, reading can be a lonely business… ;o) Which brings us, in a roundabout way, to ‘Blackwing’, a book that had loads of great things said about it back in 2018 (upon its release). Where was I at the time…? Not important *, what’s important is that I finally grabbed a copy of ‘Blackwing’, the other way, and found the time to read it. And it was bloody brilliant, I couldn’t put it down until I’d finished it. But you knew how good it was already, didn’t you? Let me tell you about it anyway… ;o) ‘Only three kinds of people willingly enter the Misery: the desperate, the stupid and the greedy…’ The Misery is a wasteland: a dangerous, corrupted frontier between the Rtepublic and th...

You know that feeling you get when you read an amazing book and you come away feeling like the book must have been left in the shop for you to find? Not anyone else, just you, the universe somehow knew that you’d be in the shop and left you a book that it knew you’d really enjoy. Well, that’s me and ‘Rover Red Charlie’; a book that I enjoyed so much that I’m actually going to find it difficult to read anything else for the next few days (while it works through my system). My timing is as bad as ever, I should probably have left that until the end of my post… Oh well, If you want to duck out now, that’s fine. Just make sure that you find yourself a copy of ‘Rover Red Charlie’. If you’re still here, lets see if I can explain myself a little better… My name is Charlie and I am a dog. So are my friends Red and Rover. Something happened to the Feeders. We don’t know what. We don’t know why. But they began to hurt each other. They hurt and hurt and hurt and hurt until none of them were left....

Well, the plan (for last night) was to finish off ‘Things Have Gotten Worse’ but after the way yesterday went… That was never going to happen, I didn’t have the energy for reading. But that was cool, ‘The Sword and the Sorcerer’ was on Prime so I thought I’d give that a go instead… Except that I totally didn’t. I ended up falling asleep part way in and waking up just as the movie was coming to a close. Lets be clear though, my falling asleep was nothing to with a film that looked like just my kind of thing, it was all on me 😉. I’ll have to get back to ‘The Sword and the Sorcerer’ when I’m a bit more awake. So I ended up doing that thing where you take a nap at exactly the wrong time of day and wake up in the middle of the night, all awake and with nowhere to go. That was ok though, I had ‘School’s Out Forever’ on my watchlist so I thought I’d give that a go instead… No sooner has Lee been expelled from his school, a pandemic spreads. With his father dead and mother abroad, Lee goe...

The Youtube algorithm has pretty much given up on me at this point and just throws me anything that it thinks might hold my attention for more than a few seconds. Stories about dogs being rescued are always a decent bet as are those 'Kill Count' videos for movies where, you know... And that's where I first came across 'The Domestics' the other day. Now, I used to be a domestic assistant (in a psychiatric hospital) which may be why I never bothered with this movie when it first came out. Shows how wrong I was... What I got was a four and a bit minute clip of people dying in all sorts of ways against a weird looking backdrop of post-apocalyptic suburbia. And last night, after the day I'd had, it turned out that was just what I needed for an evening's viewing. Let me tell you all about it. In a terrifying post-apocalyptic world inhabited by sadistic gangs divided into deadly factions, Nina and Mark race desperately across the devastated and lawless countryside...