Beware: Doctor in Distress
Warning: here be the worst of the 80s. This is a music video calling for the return of Dr Who after it was put on hiatus.
The management accepts no responsibility for damage to sanity or taste inflicted on viewers of this 80s horror.
More quarters please...
The only video games that stick in my mind from my childhood were The Hobbit and Stargate, on the good old ZX Spectrum. Ah, those were the days, text adventures and blocky action games.
My favourite game now is, unavoidably, World of Warcraft.
Go, Ravens, go!
Number one with a bullet
When I was born, Rod Stewart's Maggie May was Top of the Pops (ho ho). It's a pretty good song, and certainly beats the Slade track that replaced it the following day...
When I turned 21, End of the Road by Boyz II Men "topped" the "hit parade". It was the only No. 1 from that year I have no memory of - at all.
Weekend Plans
This weekend, I went to sell books at a charity fund-raising event in Suffolk. I spent Sunday browsing a food fair. More on my other blog.
The soundtrack to my life
In all likelyhood an odd, unpredictable selection of mainly mainstream stuff, that would all clash really badly with each other and make the soundtrack album unsellable.
I have a really odd taste in music. It's eclectic enough that people will see albums they love and hate sat next to each other happily.
My weekend plans...
This weekend, I shall mainly be painting the kitchen, doing some writing and generally tidying up the flat.
I'm so dynamic.
England vrs Trinidad & Tobago
My brother's showing off by texting me this picture from the match…
Review: A Hunger Like Fire
I finally got around to reading this book over the weekend. In common with so many books I own, it's been sitting on my shelf, unread, for over a year.
First up, a disclaimer: I've worked alongside the author on several projects for the same publisher as this book.
That said, Stolze is one of the best writers they have, and the prose he produces is always readable, and often rises well above the rather mediocre median for the game fiction world. In this book in particular, you can see him playing with themes in a way that's better suited to far more serious fiction than this piece of, with the best will in the world, lightweight reading. The plot, such as it is, chugs along at an enjoyable pace and the characters are far richer than you normally find in this form of writing.
The downside is that this is very evidently the first novel in a series. It doesn't really hang together as a narrative it its own right. While there is a distinct plot arc that is resolved, there are many others that are clearly just gearing up by the time the book ends.
Still, an enjoyable enough read for all of that.
