It was originally scheduled to ship on November 15th, but the site is say in 3-5 days this morning.
Wow, I've never seen customer reviews for a novel at Amazon like there is for Blackout. While more people give it five stars than any other rating, it's not by much and there are nearly equal numbers of 4, 3, 2, and 1 stars.
That alone makes me want to read the book to find out how so many people can have views that evenly spread. Love it or hate it, I've seen before. This is something different.
That alone makes me want to read the book to find out how so many people can have views that evenly spread. Love it or hate it, I've seen before. This is something different.
@CommodoreRake: My thought exactly...
@talkingstove: Or a single man...
I tried, I really did. This the second claim I've seen the show is getting better and my second attempt to watch. I got 5 minutes in and decided to watch a Supernatural rerun. Enjoy if this is your thing.
@Slappy_san: Definitely read it. The books rich enough to stand reading again after several years. Yes, I'm one of the people who've read it 6 or 7 times and hate the movie with a passion.
As for the review, this is hardly the first book to idealize and romanticize its subject. It's the story and Heinlein's telling of it that matters.
@Sonia Zjawinski: Sorry, I was going to watch the second episode, but I read it went down hill from there. Everything I've seen says it never got any better.
One episode of this was enough for me. I've rarely seen anything quite as bad. Not even Gene Hunt with a faux American accent could save it.
@FrankenPC: ROTFLMAO, nice one. Silverberg's criticism is off, but not that much. Most of the writers of the Golden Age focused more on ideas than the tricks used by professional writers, usually for the better. Against the Fall of the Night was special, though.
Read the plot and decided to stay home. If I'm going to see an animated movie, I'd rather stay home and watch Up! As for CGI, I prefer something like District 9, where the money doesn't get in the way of the movie.
Who kidnapped this Dollhouse and forced all those crappy earlier episodes on us? Why, oh why wait this long to get to what they should have been doing almost from the beginning?
@Chuck: Fringe would loose a great deal of its charm without crazy Walter. I want the Walternate to be like the sane Walter we saw briefly, only really, really pissed off.
That way we can have both flavors. :D
Preemptive war? Wait, that's supposed to be the Bush Doctrine, not that any attack on Afghanistan after the inauguration in 2001 would have had much impact on 9/11, of course. Most of the hijackers were already in the US.
Glad to learn this guy is supposed to be a humorist.
Yeah! A Travis McGee/John D. MacDonald reference.
