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Review: Dad is Fat

by Greg Lockwood under READ on May 10th

I have zero children. Not a one. I don’t have a wife. I don’t have a fiancée. Some of the writers here at WatchPlayRead have children, multiple children even. Some of them don’t have children but are at least married. I’m twenty-five years old, living with a twenty year old and a twenty-one year old in a two bedroom apartment. I sleep on a bed in the living room. I do this to save money, but...

BOOKS, Dad is Fat, Jim Gaffifan, REVIEWS

Ender’s Game – Trailer

by Xopher Reed under WATCH on May 8th

ZOMG ENDER’S GAME!

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From the Comic Hold: Adventure Time #13

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Feb 20th

Hacking is so awesome, if you know what you’re doing of course!

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A Once Crowded Sky, Book Review

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Aug 31st

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t let this crowd your bookshelf.

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Pure Fun Reading the Brotherhood of Dwarves Series

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Jun 6th

I wrapped up the final two of the three that are currently in publication in a span of 2 days. Thankfully each book was only around 150 pages long on my Nook.

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Geek Achievement Unlocked: I Finally Read, Dune

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Jun 1st

No more do I half ass conversations about Frank Herbert’s Dune, piecing together a myriad of snippets from web searches and having a keen ear from friends well versed in the Dune Mythos. Now, I can fully ass conversations about Frank Herbert’s Dune with a brain swollen with information that is constantly shifting and moving like the sands of Arrakis. I’m not here to review Dune, whatever paltry words I could...

BOOKS, dune, frank herbert, geek acheivement, Nook, sci-fi, Science Fiction, Tablet, unlocked

Giving Wings to Once Upon a Time: Why you should read fantasy to kids

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Mar 28th

Jackie Gamber gives us her thoughts on a subject that has been popping up lately, kids who don’t like to read Books, and why we should be reading more to kids.

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WPR Interview – Steven Shrewsbury

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Jan 6th

I’ve talked to the man before about his book Thrall (Our Review), now that he’s released a couple of new short stories, I decided to see what it was all about. I am pleased with the responses of my inquiry.

BOOKS, Gorias La Gaul, INTERVIEWS, seventh star press, short story, Thrall

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Who Wants Not One, Not Two, but EIGHT eBooks, Free from WPR and Seventh Star Press?

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Jan 4th

2012 is the year of giving, and lets start off by giving you 8 different short stories in eBook (Kindle or Nook) format from our favorite publisher Seventh Star Press!

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Chapter Tease from George RR Martin’s Next A Song of Ice and Fire novel, The Winds of Winter

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Dec 29th

For those of you who don’t stalk the mans LiveJournal, he’s updated it with some juicy…words in well structured sentences, that form paragraphs and into a whole chapter of Theon Greyjoy. Here is how the man himself explains the chapter, who we all know might rewrite the whole damn thing, or get rid of it during the next 5 years to finish The Winds of Winter: The chronology, as usual, is tricky. This...

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Would You Read Comic Books As…Prose Fiction?

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Dec 21st

That’s right, Marvel is doing away with the purty pictures and encapsulating some of their best comics in…books?

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Starship Troopers – The Remake

by Xopher Reed under WATCH on Dec 21st

Apparently someone thinks that the classic sci-fi movie (book is better) directed by Paul Verhoeven needs to be made all over again.

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Ender’s Game Movie Starring Harrison Ford?

by Xopher Reed under WATCH on Dec 7th

Yes please!

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John Carter – Trailer #2

by Xopher Reed under WATCH on Dec 4th

The first theorem of movie trailers states “if you take tons of action, and mix it with a rendition of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Kashmir’, you are guaranteed instant success”. I hope to Crom this remains true.

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Katsura Hoshino’s Art Book Headed Stateside

by Xopher Reed under READ on Nov 30th

Viz Media just announced that a 100 page art book by the creator of D.Gray-Man is headed to the US next week. I am excite.

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Daddy Time – Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

by Xopher Reed under FEATURED on Nov 28th

For years now, three to be exact, my wife and I have been purchasing books for our eldest daughter that are WAAAAAY out of her reading age…considering she doesn’t read at all right now and is still learning letters, just about anything that isn’t a printed picture or piece of art is outside of her reading group, but that doesn’t stop us from picking up just about every Dr. Seuss book we can find.

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Daddy Time – Howl’s Moving Castle

by Xopher Reed under FEATURED on Nov 21st

I’ve got a bit of a confession to make. I haven’t seen every Miyazaki movie. There I’ve said it and I feel much better for getting it off my chest. There is a plus side to this revelation, and that is that I now have a chance to watch the entire collection of Studio Ghibli for the first time with my family.

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Year of the Black Rainbow – Review

by Xopher Reed under READ on Nov 13th

The album, Year of the Black Rainbow, has been out and in my hands for well over a year (damn near 18 months now) and I just this week got around to reading the novel that came with my Deluxe Edition. The shame of this has only now struck home as I have finished the book by Claudio Sanchez and Peter David and am now kicking myself for waiting so long.

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Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence – Book Review

by Ryan Thomason under READ on Nov 12th

Ok yeah, you can judge this book by its cover.

BOOKS, Getting Off, Lawrence Block, pulp crime, pulp fiction, REVIEWS

“Star Trek: New Frontier” – Series Review

by Robert Chesley under READ on Nov 10th

It has been a long while since I had the opportunity to write. Some of you may have missed me (I’m pretty humble in that regard), but the truth is I’ve missed it. “Star Trek: New Frontier” is a book series primarily written and created by Peter David (you may have heard of him through his long tenure on “Incredible Hulk”).

BOOKS, captain calhoun, new frontier, peterdavid, startrek