Reviews & re-views

I thought I had mentioned this here, but I guess I forgot. Sorry! At any rate, this comm is on an indefinite hiatus. I want to try my hand at doing more "proper" book reviews (yes, in part so publishers will send me books for free), so I've still be doing reviews, just not posting them.

If my attempts at proper reviewing fail spectacularly, I'll probably resume LJ-style reviews, but I may delete all the old reviews from here so I have something to start with at my new review place. I don't have any solid plans yet.

Anyway, thanks for reading and commenting. I hope my reviews were of some use, whether you agreed with my opinions or thought I was an idiot :)

Title: Push
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/
Series: n/a
Place in series: n/a
Format: DVD
Re(-)view: view #1
Rating: 7/10

Movie blurb: At imdb.com: Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.


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Title: Northlanders v.2: The Cross & the Hammer
Creator: Brian Wood
Publisher: DC: Vertigo
Series: Northlanders
Place in series: 2
Format: GN
Re(-)view: read #1
Rating: 5/10

Comic blurb: At vertigocomics.com: A series of mysterious murders and arsons against wealthy citizens leaves the Viking occupiers worried that a potential uprising might ignite. When surprising details involving the crimes are revealed, though, their jobs become much harder!

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Title: Zombieland
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156398/
Series: n/a
Place in series: n/a
Format: theatre
Re(-)view: view #1
Rating: 8/10

Movie blurb: At IMDB.com: The horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss -- but when you're afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee is an AK-toting, zombie-slaying' bad ass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita and Little Rock, who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies.

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Title: Jack of Fables: The Big Book of War
Creator: Bill Willingham
Publisher: DC-Vertigo
Series: Jack of Fables
Place in series: 6
Format: GN
Re(-)view: read #1
Rating: 3/10

Comic blurb: At chapters.ca: The Siege of the Golden Boughs occurs in which Bookburner's army attacks Revise's compound. Jack returns not as a prisoner but as its Commander in chief. A further explanation of the Literals, and their extended family of characters who symbolize literary notions is explored. Secrets and setups are revealed such as the relationships between Jack and the Page sisters.

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Title: Rusty Nail
Author: J.A. Konrath
Series: Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels
Place in series: 3
Format: MMPB
Re(-)view: read #1
Rating: 8/10

Book blurb: At chapters.ca: Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department is back, and she's up to her Armani in murder. Someone is sending her snuff videos, and the victims all were involved in her previous cases. Jack follows the trail of death on a collision course with the smartest and deadliest adversary she's ever known.

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Title: Nightschool: The Weirn Books, v.2
Creator: Svetlana Chmakova
Publisher: Yen Press
Series: Nightschool
Place in series: 2
Format: digest/manga (oversized)
Re(-)view: read #1
Rating: 8/10

Comic blurb: At chapters.ca: Alex has to enrol in the Nightschool to get a Nightpass which allows the wearer to walk the grounds without triggering its protective spells. She is suddenly immersed in the otherworldly environment of night time schooling, getting a tour of the magical areas of the school, meeting other students, and attending classes. Alex makes a big splash when she proves too powerful for the class into which she's originally placed and gets transferred into the elite class taught by Mr. Roi.

However, Mr. Roi is off with Daemon trying to figure out what was under the broken seal in Marina's vision...

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Title: Boy Proof
Author: Cecil Castellucci
Series: n/a
Place in series: n/a
Format: HC
Re(-)view: read #1
Rating: 9/10

Book blurb: At chapters.ca: Meet Egg. Her real name is Victoria Jurgen, but she's renamed herself after the kick-ass heroine of her favorite sci-fi movie, TERMINAL EARTH. Like her namesake, Egg dresses all in white, colors her eyebrows, and shaves her head. She always knows the right answers, she's always in control, and she's far too busy - taking photos for the school paper, meeting with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Club, and hanging out at the "creature shop" with her dad, the special-effects makeup wizard - to be bothered with friends, much less members of the opposite sex. As far as Egg is concerned, she's boy proof, and she likes it that way. But then Egg meets a boy named Max, a boy who's smart and funny and creative and cool . . . and happens to like Egg. Could this be the end of the world - at least as Egg knows it?

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Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Series: Uglies
Place in series: 1
Format: TPB
Re(-)view: read #1
Rating: 6/10

Book blurb: At chapters.ca: Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.
But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
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Title: FreakAngels v.2
Creator: Warren Ellis
Publisher: Avatar Press
Series: FreakAngels
Place in series: 2
Format: TPB
Re(-)view: read #1
Rating: 9/10

Comic blurb: At chapters.ca: Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years later, the world ended. Today, eleven strange 23-year-olds are living in and defending Whitechapel, maybe the last real settlement in flooded London. They've made a new friend, and together they successfully defended their home from raiders - but the post-apocalyptic drowned London that the eleven Freakangels survive in is never a safe place, and never surrounded by friends. Night has only just fallen, but strangers already creep through Whitechapel with the worst of intentions and the weapons to see them through!

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