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Y The Last Man: Unmanned ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Y The Last Man: Unmanned ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Rating: 2/5 If I could rate the enjoyment of reading this book in a vaccuum, I would probably give this a higher rating. Probably a 4. I have found that Vaughan’s worlds are so far delightfully imaginative and the characters in them tend to have a no-fucks-given attitude. However, there are some seriously major problems with this book. It is one of his older series, so no doubt it has to do with…

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Dune: The Machine Crusade is a 2003 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. It is the second book in the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy, which takes place over 10,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert's celebrated 1965 novel Dune.  The series chronicles the fictional Butlerian Jihad, a crusade by the last free humans in the universe against the thinking machines, a violent and dominating force led by the sentient computer mind Omnius.

More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad.  The crusade against thinking robots had ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Iblis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory.

The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius . . . as their numbers dwindle and times begins to run out.  The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge themselves into an elite warrior class, a weapon against the machine-dominated worlds.  Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the verge of the most important discovery in human history---a way to “fold” space and travel instantaneously to any place in the galaxy.

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The Drawing of the Three ~ Stephen King

The Drawing of the Three ~ Stephen King

Rating: 4/5

Holy guacamole this is definitely so much better than either The Gunslinger or The Stand. I was beginning to think King just wasn’t for me, but turns out when he starts being a little less racist and a little less sexist, he actually writes better stuff also. That’s not to say this book is without it’s problems. I have major issues with the way Detta Walker was introduced, and her…