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The Broken Sword review
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The Broken Sword was written around the same time as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and the Fellowship of the Ring, and is a foundational heroic fantasy novel, but unfortunately hasn't reached the same level of mainstream success as those novels despite being very on par in quality.
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One Piece vol 2 review
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Since finishing Dragon Ball, I decided to pick One Piece back up, and it's a lot of fun. In this second volume we meet some new characters, expand our crew, and fight some bad guys. It's classic shonen stuff, but it's done well and it's fun.
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Dragon Ball vol 16 review
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The final volume of original Dragon Ball, and it's just as fun as all the other volumes. Here we get the final confrontation between Goku and Piccolo. It's fun to see Piccolo as an evil character - he's much different than his character in Z and despite being a big fan of Z I really didn't know his...
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Annihilation review
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This one wasn't for me. An abrupt ending, very little in the way of explanations, and an increasingly unreliable narrator lead to a novel that, for me, was pretty unsatisfying.
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Phoenix review
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The Vlad Taltos books are a comfort read for me. They fill a spot very similar to the early Dresden books, when they were still serialized monster of the week stories before the main plot truly developed. There is a chronology to these books, but the author says they can be read in mostly any...
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The Fall of Kings review
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We continue the story of Antonio Perez in the strongest novel of the series yet.
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