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It’s time to read the dam chapter.
A strangely-named mystery girl, goddesses in elevators, and the return of sea-cattle! That’s right, it’s the dam fourteenth chapter of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse, a.k.a…
“This plan is so bad, it HAS to be ours.”
“I am bleeding and I have no wounds, so I’m either St. John of the Uncharted Territories, or there’s something very, very wrong with me!”
Having spent an entire episode with black-T-shirt Crichton aboard Talyn in the last episode, it’s time to swing back to Moya to spend entire ep with green-T-shirt Crichton! (Well, almost an entire episode, but we’ll get to that later.) I’d say this is a weird one, but this is Farscape, and they’re ALL weird ones, right? That’s why we love it! [Read more…]
The world of role-playing games is widespread these days, with games of every kind, in many different mediums, spanning genres and filling up convention after convention. While stigmas and stereotypes still exist for those who play, player demographics span nearly every age, gender, and class. (Did you know Roger Moore and Vin Diesel were adult Dungeons & Dragons players?) But it wasn’t always so. Like rock & roll before it, tabletop role-playing—and D&D in particular—had some, shall we say, wildly inaccurate perceptions in its early days. Today, Guest Geek Eric Turowski paints us a picture…
It’s bad luck to go into the thirteenth chapter when there’s a prophecy of loss waiting to be fulfilled…
So it turns out that Bianca’s older than she looks, we meet another goddess (woo-hoo!), and a colossal junkyard throw-down leads to another aspect of the prophecy being fulfilled. All this, plus I get nitpicky in the thirteenth chapter of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse…
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In which the primary conflict of this episode is resolved through vomit.
“That’s no moon. That’s a budong!”
Take a love triangle that’s not really a love triangle, add in some neural transponder linkages, wrap it up in a setting that’s a fourth character in itself, and chuck it all down the gullet of a budong! What you’ve got is Farscape‘s answer to the psychological thriller Crichton, Aeryn, Crais, and Talyn all have to duel with each other’s emotions amid the pressure-cooker of a cyclopean alien stomach. [Read more…]
Riordan certainly is making a Herculean effort in writing The Titan’s Curse!
(I’m not Apollogizing for that pun. …Or that one.)
The Apollo-train runs out of juice, the Erymanthian Boar shows up, and it’s not even the least of their problems. All this and a LOT of haiku on the twelfth installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse…
Inspired by Apollo’s efforts earlier in this book, I have decided to review this chapter entirely in haiku! Think you can take it? Brace yourself, because ready or not, here we go!
Hey, those last two sentences were a haiku. Cool. 😉 [Read more…]