Continuing my recent foray into graphic novels, I picked up The Complete Frank Miller Batman from Amazon Marketplace. If you’re unfamiliar with Frank Miller’s work, you might have heard his name related to Frank Miller’s Sin City: a movie from 2005 with Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke.
This Batman collection contains three stories:
It’s not a very well hidden fact that I’m a big fan of Stephen King books. On a recent trip business trip, I found myself without something to read. I was also in need of some shaving cream and ended up at a CVS (or something). After finding what I needed, I was browsing the book aisle. In a section that I didn’t expect to find an SK book, I found a book that clearly said “Stephen King” on the cover. But it looked like a romance novel cover. Being intrigued, I picked The Colorado Kid up to determine if it was the Stephen King.
Flipping through some of the pages and the reviews section at the beginning, it seemed clear that this book was indeed the Stephen King. It had all the familiar traits I’ve grown to love: set in New England (Maine, to be specific) and an afterward: signed & dated. Taking it back to my hotel room, I started to read. It, like a lot of King’s books, started off slow for me. The book started to get interesting around the time I was heading home. I got distracted from The Colorado Kid in the airport because I found The Cell (a more “classic” Stephen King). But, two days ago I found myself with nothing to read again. I picked up The Colorado Kid and started from the beginning. Almost immediately after I passed where I had stopped before, I was hooked…
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I’ve always been into comic book superheroes: Superman, Batman and Spiderman (specifically). As a kid, I enjoyed Superman & Superman II, Batman & Batman Returns. As an adult, I loved Batman Begins, the two Spiderman movies and the X-men movies (1 & 2 so far). I can’t wait until Superman Returns.
Brad Meltzer is one of my favorite authors. Holly and I have read all of his novels so far starting with The Tenth Justice all the way to The Zero Game. We cannot wait to get our hands on The Book of Fate when it’s released on September 5, 2006.
Today I finally read my copy of Identity Crisis, a graphic novel which includes Brad’s script and Rags Morales’s pictures to tell a great story about a mystery involving The Justice League of America.
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I’ve been reading The Chronicles of Narnia since finishing my last book (off and on) and just finished this afternoon. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year or so, you might have heard of the movie from one of the stories in the book (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).
The specific edition I read had all of the stories in it: “The Magician’s Nephew”, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, “The Horse and His Boy”, “Prince Caspian”, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, “The Silver Chair” and “The Last Battle”.
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I’m adding a new category to my site. Books. I like to read. I read a lot of Stephen King. His Dark Tower Series is fantastic. I absolutely loved how he tied the Dark Tower into so many of this other books. So, in this category, I’m going to include content (content is king) about books I’ve read.
On a recent flight back from Bellevue, Washington, I saw that King had a new book out. I don’t remember if I’d heard about it prior to seeing it in the airport, but I picked up Stephen King’s Cell.