Michael English

A relentleff blockbufter of a boke. Heartily recommended!

Revisado: 11-11-24

This is the kind of book that makes people fall in love with the W40k universe. Think "vampiric Catholic Space Nazis versus alien bug swarm versus the forces of Hell itself", with some ancient Rome thrown in for good measure.

Interestingly, despite nearly all the main characters being towering genetically-engineered super-soldiers with a penchant for psychopathic berzerker rages, the narrator has a tendency to make them all sound like dignified old men. Imagine the cast of I, Claudius on steroids and wielding chainsaw axes. and yet, somehow, he makes it work.

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Flawed to the core, like so many recent Aliens novels

Revisado: 10-26-24

What starts out as a promising story set in the Aliens universe soon slides into the same rut that so many of the other Aliens novels fall into: at numerous points the narrative action is ground to a screetching halt to give extensive backstories on characters that are obviously about to get killed; nothing about the alien is implied- every encounter is meticilously described down to the most minute, clinical detail; death scenes are prolonged to the point that they cease to be horror or even action, turning instead into tiresome comedy.

It is as if they were all written by the same lousy editor, whose number one rule was... filler.

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Agood short story read by the writer

Revisado: 02-14-24

This short story in the Dresden Files universe is more curiosity than essential reading, but it is actually rather good, and it marks the first major narrative effort of the author, Jim Butcher, himself.

Technically, then, this could be considered the "true" voice of Harry Dresden. Admittedly he is no James Marsters, but once he hits his stride he's actually kind of good.

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A badly written disappointment, for several reasons

Revisado: 02-11-24

The plot of this book had the potential to make a great story. Unfortunately, it is an amateurish, badly- written disappointment.

Instead of a terse, punchy thriller, Tim Waggoner Has delivered an anemic, overlong story with all of the signs of having been padded out with filler.

There are vast tracts of the story in which the action pauses mid-beat, and we are forced to endure a character's inner thoughts as they ponder things that happened in the past, how they feel about it, and what they are planning to do after they finish thinking about it.

There are many paragraphs- particularly when the alien attacks or infects someone- in which essentially the same sequence of events is told over and over again in slightly different words.

And Zula Hendricks- THE standout character of the recent Aliens comics- has been reduced from a hard-to-know, hard-to-like loner with insane, even self-destructive levels of determination, into a frankly generic action heroine- an inspiring team leader- who bears little resemblance to the deeply antisocial Zula Hendricks from the comics.

For these reasons I cannot recommend this. Aliens: The Cold Forge was everything this is not.

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Very slow at first, but it picks up with speed

Revisado: 01-01-23

It took a while for me to get to grips with this story, which didn't really feel like a horror so much as a Southern drama for the first third of its length.

However, once it's done laying the foundations things start to happen and eventually they start happening faster and faster. By that time, you've come to genuinely care about these people, and it has far more of an impact than it would have had if all of the background had been skipped.

In the end, it was ultimately a satisfying read and genuinely scary.

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It is, quite simply, the very, very best.

Revisado: 12-04-22

This is, quite simply, the complete, definitive, and the very, very best, collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, narrated by one of the best narrators of the 20th and 21st century.

You have not and will never find a better version of the works of Sherlock Holmes- or of his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a masterpiece.

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Simply a tour de force.

Revisado: 10-01-22

Rosamond Pike has delivered one of the best narrative performances I have ever heard. It is difficult to imagine anyone doing as well as the superb production done by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, but she's pulled it off. Her work here may turn out to be the one good thing to come out of the recent miguided television production.

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A good story with a couple of flaws

Revisado: 06-21-22

A good story with a couple of flaws. Thompson is superb when narrating Thrawn and Vader, but he really, really struggles with female voices.

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An excellent story and performance.

Revisado: 05-30-22

An excellent story and performance, full worthy of the series that gave it its name.

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A superb entry into the warhammer 40K universe.

Revisado: 04-15-22

This book is a superb introduction to the Warhammer 40k universe. It is an entirely self contained series of short stories and adventures which just happened to systematically introduce the reader to a surprisingly large quantity of warhammer 40K background lore.

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