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Here's an XBox Live Arcade game that everyone needs to get. If only because it's totally free. Harms Way is a really sweet little ...

Just saw Sucker Punch last week. Of course, when I first heard about it, I thought it was a Tie Domi biopic. My blog: your number-one shop...

Or, next up on my fantasy book review-o-rama, at least the first two books of it. Verdict: Don't bother. The first book of Trudi Canavan...

I'm currently engaged in a large fantasy reading project, and every now and then I'll try to translate it into the odd book review. ...

Minecraft . If you haven't heard of it yet, it's only the best computer game ever. Minecraft is a first-person game where you build ...

Or at least the best short fiction I've ever read: The book in question is a collection of short stories, all based on this Dinosaur Co...

Here's another bildungsroman . Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father This one deals with a darker subject matte...

For reasons known to at least some of my readers, I've been busy with bildungsromaner lately. It occurs to me I should probably write u...

I think this is probably the most awful XBox 360 game I've ever played. The initial impression is, to say the least, dramatic. For a lon...

This time, a book recommendation! Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes , the 2007 National Book Award winner for non-fiction. The book is exact...

Here's another review of a disappointing popular history book, this time by the Viscount Norwich! I mean, of course, John Julius Norwich...

Last weekend, I took it upon myself to read Cormac McCarthy's The Road , winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having read it, ...

So I saw the new Star Trek movie. I need to review it twice to be fair. First as a movie, then as a Star Trek movie. As a movie: bleah. If I...

I recently picked up William J. Bernstein 's A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World , and was quite disappointed. According to...

Great game, shame about the plot. 8/10 The good part is that Fallout 3 is a tremendously enjoyable and somewhat addictive game. Most of the ...

Misha Glenny 's book McMafia has such a hideously stupid cover that it put me off buying it for an entire year despite my great interest...

I finished Bioshock yesterday. Last month I gave it a grade of 9/10, and I'm afraid I have to downgrade that to 7/10. On the one hand, ...