In action adventure novels there often comes a time when our protagonist can rid themselves of the Bad Guy. A proper hero-style protagonist will not kill the Bad Guy at this time. This allows for the book to contain more pages. It also allows the Bad Guy to kill some innocents or other Good Guys. [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2008 in Books & Learning
Tags: Cotton Malone, Literature
A little geography lesson for today courtesy of several Wikipedia pages and Gina: Mesas and buttes are pretty much just different names for very similar things. Both have steep sides and flat tops. Geographers tend to differentiate between the two based on a ratio of top size to height: “a mesa has a top that [...]
Posted on December 27th, 2007 in Books & Learning
Once again I just had to read a book before the movie came out – just because the movie was coming out. Of course I was very intrigued by the premise- I mean who doesn’t like an end-of-days book featuring vampires? So I snagged the book from Audible and gave it a listen. It isn’t [...]
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