RFBW: Jeff Lindsay – Dexter

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Darkly Dreaming Dexter This first book naturally sets up the basic premise: Dexter is a forensic scientist who works for the Police, and in his spare time he kills those killers who slip through the Police's net. Despite this, he is immensely lovable, partly thanks to the brilliant portrayal by Michael C. Hall in the TV series which I had…

RFBW: Robert Rankin

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The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse Take the successful late '80's cartoon/live action film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, replace "Cartoons" with "Fairy Tales", and there you have it: The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse. Quite an entertaining read, this. It takes everything you think you know about Little Boy Blue, for example, then eschews it with modern sensibilities.…

RFBW: Tom Holt

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The Better Mousetrap Take what you know about monsters of myth and creatures of legend. Now, let this story and Mr. Holt expand that to a modern setting. We all know Dragons love gold, but did you know they also have inbuilt, organic modems that scour the internet for the latest exchange rates, to see just exactly how valuable their…

RFBW: Miscellaneous

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A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre Great read, this one. Although the characters have been developed in previous books, this is very stand-alone, it mattered not that I didn't know the full history between Angelique, Zal and Simon. The villain of the piece, Simon Darcourt (or maybe even the Author himself?), has a lot of derogative things to say…

RFBW: Introduction

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Oh, hi. It's Book Week this week on Waves, which basically means I'm posting a load of stuff about books I have read. I have been meaning to write up my thoughts on them in a while, so why not make some kind of half-arsed feature out of it? I wonder if, in the future, I note my feelings towards…

Bye, PSU

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Today's the day then. One final hurrah, or at least as much of a hurrah that we can be bothered to launch into. It's strange we had to actually organise this final World Tour, a year ago everyone would've been online playing PSU anyway, regardless of which day we wanted to play it on. I've gone on and on about…

2009 Top 10: Reading books

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2009 was the year I properly started to read books. Apart from all seven Harry Potter books a few years back, I've never really been into the whole reading thing. It's clearly one of Jane's bad habits rubbing off on me, she's very rarely without her nose in a book. The first time I went into a bookshop with the…

Christopher Moore

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I have read three of his books: A Dirty Job, You Suck! and Practical Demonkeeping. A Dirty Job This was the first of the three I read, it is a charming tale about how a man deals with the death of his wife just after she gave birth to their daughter and then has to deal with possibly being the…