Tag: book

Book Recommendations: What To Read If You Like…

In this increasingly screen focused world, a lot of us have ended up ditching books for TV shows, for movies, for video games, for endless browsing through internet forums that feels fun at the time but then makes you feel slightly hollow later on that evening when you realise you’ve lost hours to it. Here…

The Hunger Games Catching Fire: The Movie vs. Book

As the excitement over Catching Fire builds, fans everywhere are wondering: Will the movie be true to the book? As reported in Entertainment Weekly, director Frances Lawrence assures us that it will: “The movie is very, very true to the book,” he says. However, it’s practically impossible for a movie to turn out exactly like…

Book Review: Contrition by Robert E. Hirsch

Fiction based on religion can be quite thought provoking at times.  It does not matter what religion you are, or even if you don’t have one, it’s still interesting.  The characters in the tale take actions based on their beliefs and what the religion dictates, or of course they fight against it.  It’s all about…

Book Review: The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia by Glenn Mitchell

To some movies are very of the “now,” whether it’s the latest summer hit or the latest super hero movie that’s coming out soon, or the latest so-called horror movie that we complain is not bloody enough because it’s had its rating reduced to make more money – we all know we’ve complained about it.…

Book Review: Sherlock Holmes on Screen

When starting to write this review I thought I’d check something, just who is the most filmed character? And yes, as you are reading a review of a book called Sherlock Homes on Screen it would be in fact this character. All over the world, in TV series, films and even cartoons Sherlock has become…

31 Days of Horror – Book Review: Hellbent by Cherie Priest

When we left Cherie Priest’s Bloodshot there were a few questions to be answered. Of course mentioning them would be potential spoilers but it’s fair to say that I was hopeful that Hellbent the next book in the Raylene Pendle story would answer a few. I’d say it answered at least one but offered even…

Book Review: Bloodshot by Cherie Priest

Vampires; since when did they become so passé in the horror world? It’s a shame really and it’s easy to blame Twilight for the watering down of one of the darker creatures of the imaginary worlds of fiction. Sometimes though we can escape the almost incessant deluge of emo vampires and we find one that…