Vatican Assassin

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Vatican Assassin (Vatican Assassin Trilogy #1)Vatican Assassin by Mike Luoma
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Alright first let me ask a question. Do you like Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Robinson, Niven, Hamilton? If you like any or all of those authors and their works, you'll like this series too. A great spacer trilogy that gives you a little of everything you'd want and at times makes you wonder if you are reading some lost work by Clarke, Asimov, or Heinlein but at the same time having a distinct flair that is Mike Luoma. Check this trilogy out, then read past it in the same world with the Alibi Jones stories.

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Empire of the Gods

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Empire of the GodsEmpire of the Gods by David Stag
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

An absolutely great book. As a previous reviewer said, this book is wonderful for a first time author. One can tell that a great deal of passion went into crafting this story, you truly can tell Stag appreciates good sci-fi and wanted to make his mark on the genre.

Upon first reading about the book I was hoping to be in for something along the lines of Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Peter F. Hamilton... something good that I could really get into and find myself falling for the characters. Well, this book did just that... Linus is a character that almost anyone could relate to, he's a scared young man in an overwhelming situation.

I don't particularly want to go into any details as I'm not a fan of spoilers, be they unintentional or not so just take my word for it and read this if you like any of the authors I previously mentioned. I truly hope this author continues to write as I want to see far more from his mind.

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How to Script for Games

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How to script for gamesHow to script for games by Brent Knowles
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The last games I ever coded for were circle MUDs, heavily modified circle MUDs... in fact I designed a custom language system for one and built 10k+ unique rooms in some custom zones... wow, games today were always boggling to me. Grabbed this title, gave it a read... I'm not as intimidated by modern gaming now and think I might have to give coding a 'modern' game just for fun! Pick this title up!!!

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Bill Smith Goes to College

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Bill Smith Goes to CollegeBill Smith Goes to College by David Stag
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The book starts with a kid arriving to college for his first classes as a freshman, he quickly gets shock after shock of strange and curious things that are the college life. I'd say the book was outlandish and unbelievable but in fact just about every thing in it is par for the course at a typical public college from the dorm arrangement to the nonsensical bureaucratic machine that is the higher learning institution. Not a long read but left me smirking a time or two.


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This week, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform filed a civil lawsuit seeking to circumvent President Obama's executive privilege claim and force the Department of Justice to hand over subpoenaed documents.

The filing is a follow-up to a June 28 resolution holding Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents about his department's response to the disastrous "Fast and Furious" operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The resolution passed by a bipartisan vote of 255 to 67.

Obama administration officials and the Department of Justice had openly defied the committee's legitimate requests for documents regarding one of the most deadly and disastrous fiascos in the history of American law enforcement, one which claimed the lives of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and I.C.E. agent Jaime Zapata. And in a historically unprecedented maneuver, President Obama claimed executive privilege to justify withholding Justice Department deliberations from a congressional subpoena.

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