Author: Stephen R. Donaldson Pages: 480 Year Published: 1992
Here’s where the story really begins. Forbidden Knowledge takes everything from The Real Story, treats it as prologue and Donaldson really begins to explore the character and personalities of Morn, Nick and Angus.
Along the way, we’re introduced to an alien race called the [...]
Americans aren’t big on accolades for the second person to do anything. We don’t remember the second Pope (it was St. Linus); the second man to invent the telephone (Elisha Gray), and never mind the silver medal winners in the Olympics. Gold medal winners get their faces on a Wheaties box. Silver medal winners, not [...]
Awake - the opposite of what I had become less than halfway through this snorefest from director Joby Harold, starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba and Terrence Howard.
Seriously. I got hit because I was snoring loudly. I then proceeded to go back to sleep.
-K
Author: Stephen R. Donaldson Pages: 229 Year Published: 1991
In Stephen R. Donaldson’s The Real Story, we are introduced to a trio of main characters that are the heart of “The Gap Cycle,” his science fiction pentalogy: Morn Hyland, an officer with the United Mining Companies Police; Angus Thermopyle, a smuggler and [...]
Author: Cormac McCarthy Pages: 287 Year Published: 2006
A father and son travel down from the mountains, all their possessions in an old shopping cart, desperately attempting to make it to warmer climates before winter comes and all of this in a post-apocalyptic America covered in the ashes of destruction - literally.
Cormac [...]
