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    [Archive] Is The Book Always Better Than The Movie?

    Welcome to an archived entry from PopBunker.net. We have not always been the pop culture heavyweight that we are now (lets laughter die out)… So we thought it would be a good idea to share some of our excellent but relatively uncirculated material from around...

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  • One Shot

    Jack Reacher Climbs onto the Big Screen

    Christopher McQuarrie screenwriter of The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, and Wolverine 2 as well as director of The Way of the Gun is  in talks to write and direct a big screen adaptation of Lee Child’s One Shot. I’ve read each of the Reacher books (and featured the most recent...

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  • The Dragonbone Chair

    Summer Reading: ‘The Dragonbone Chair’ by Tad Williams

    My intention in starting the Summer Reading series was to review current or semi-current books that someone might want to add to their summer reading shelf. Although that is still my goal (and I have some publisher goodies upcoming for pre-publication reviews), I would be...

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  • Books You Really Should Have Read By Now — “Pattern Recognition”

    Books You Really Should Have Read By Now — “Pattern Recognition”

    I picked up “Pattern Recognition” after being away from the works of William Gibson since, I don’t know, probably “Mona Lisa Overdrive.” It wasn’t an intentional split — my reading habits are really more like phases, and I think I went into an essayist phase...

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    “Blackest Night” – The Collected Editions

    Beginning tomorrow (Thursday, July 8, 2010), DC Comics will start rolling out the Hardcover compilations of their last Big Event, "Blackest Night." In case you missed out on it, or just on parts of it, these bookshelf editions are going to be well worth the money at your LCS.

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    Hypothetical Studio: “World War Z” on HBO

    Welcome to the PopBunker.net Hypothetical Studio where I get to give voice to a favorite geek pastime: preaching the way things would be in music, movie, comics, and television if I were king of the geeky entertainment world. This will be a feature here every...

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  • Books You Really Should Have Read By Now — “A Confederacy of Dunces”

    Books You Really Should Have Read By Now — “A Confederacy of Dunces”

    So I (and by extension, this column) vanished for a couple of weeks. Sorry about that — I got busy with a bunch of other book stuff, but I’m back now. At least it had to do with books, right? This week’s book you really...

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    Summer Reading: “61 Hours” by Lee Child

    Although this review is titled after the 14th and most recent adventure of the long-running Jack Reacher series from Brit Lee Child, Summer Reading could easily recommend nearly all the novels in the hard-boiled series as a nice addition to any summer reading shelf. First,...

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    Summer Reading: Dean Koontz “Relentless”

    Relentless by Dean Koontz (2009) The year was 1992 when last I visited Dean Koontz. Almost twenty years ago I left the writer due to frustration with the lack of deviation from novel to  novel. To wit: At that point Koontz’s plots usually revolved around...

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  • Summer Reading: A. Lee Martinez “Monster”

    Summer Reading: A. Lee Martinez “Monster”

    Official summer is just around the corner and that means it’s time to stuff Steinbeck, Maugham, Hemmingway, Dickens, Austen, and company into the old literary sock drawer and pull out fun books to fill your summer with rays of joy! Welcome to the Pop Bunker...

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