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    Starring Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher?

    Jumping Zeus H. Jove. For years I have been looking forward to the big screen adaptation of Lee Child’s badass wrecking ball sleuth Jack Reacher. Child’s long running adventures with Reacher is the only pulp series I follow. I love the character. The Bunker has been...

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    The Dark Tower Movie Collapses (or maybe not)

    [Update] 06/03/11 – Various reports are suggesting that production on the Dark Tower adaptations have been delayed, but not put on hold. In fact, it looks like the series of films and television shows are to move ahead more or less as planned, but with...

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    Out of Print Lit Nerd T-Shirts

    I’m not sure if they would clash with D&D cologne as I click-shop for my summer gear, but outofprintclothing.com has badass vintage looking t-shirts inspired by literary classics. With styles ranging from Art Nouveau, Art Deco,  and Mid-Century Modern to Psychedelic, this t-shirt shop has...

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    Preview & Review – Wookiee the Chew: The House at Chew Corner (Audiobook) by James Hance

    Hance, along with co-writer Max Michaels, has reached deep into this great piñata full of geeky goodness and flung the best prizes around a landscape of cherished childhood daydreams.

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    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kindle

    Once, not long ago, the book business was my family business. In a series of stores stretching over seven years, I owned, managed, or worked in the business and made a (surprisingly good) living. It was a used book business with an inventory approaching 300,000...

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    [Preview] A Dance With Dragons

    Hold me.  I feel a little faint. This is like the Duke Nukem Forever of fantasy novels and much like playing that game at PAX last year, some part of me will not believe this news until I have the novel in my hands.  It...

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    [Book] New Release: The Wise Man’s Fear

    Brilliant fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss has finally released The Wise Man’s Fear | The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 2. It hit the shelves today and thanks to my Amazon Prime membership, it was on my doorstep at 3PM ET. Beautiful. Rothfuss recently gained notoriety for an...

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    ‘The Name of the Wind’ Author to Fillion: I will help you buy Firefly rights.

    If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

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    Atlanta Nights: The Movie

    The worst book ever written could also be the worst movie ever made. No, no. This is good news. In 2005, James D. Macdonald pulled together a remarkable collection of authors (and one random word generator) to write an unpublishable manuscript, as a means of...

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    [Review] The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

    Philip K. Dick stories have a hit and miss track record with being adapted into films, with some of them being a lot more successful than the others.  Still, when they’re done well, they’re unforgettable as is the case with Blade Runner, no matter which...

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