2017 is almost done, but it hasn't been all bad, right? In this post, I look back at the things I've loved and discovered in 2017. I look at Books, Films and Podcasts as these are the things that have taken up most of my free time. Hope you like it.
Read MoreNick Harkaway's latest novel crosses thousands of years and yet never leaves the mind of the victim at the centre of his tale. With Gnomon, Harkaway looks at our world and the issues we face from oblique angles, in turn making us look at our own path from eyes we may not have considered or have even wanted too. Gnomon is a masterful tale.
Read MoreNever, well in ages anyways, have I been as transfixed and then as utterly pissed off with a book as I was with Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World. Being a completist, a week and change after throwing the damn thing into the dust beyond the bedside table, I picked it up and was saved by the mimes. A blooming wonderful, bloody infuriating, brilliant journey down The Pipe.
Read MoreSuperheroes are funny old things. I remember when reading a comic would get you ridiculed in the playground and possibly duffed up a bit. Especially if it was one of those American comics, you usually could get away with 2000AD because, well, Dredd. But these days, thanks to the movies and the rise to power of The Geek, comics are cool and Superheroes are big bank. The films and books we get these days try, to a greater or lesser extent, to ground their characters in a sense of reality. Gone are radioactive spider bites or gamma rays, in are gene splicing and good old evolution.
Read MoreOne of my many foibles, and there are a good number, is that I do enjoy peoples reactions. When I was younger I would say stupid things just to see what people would do. At school this lead to the odd received right hook and later, some rather upset friends. Luckily age has mellowed this silly reaction junkie. These days, I go for t-shirts that confuse, confound and, to the right type of person, delight.
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