what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “This text that we have, it was somehow hidden away, left to be found, when all the mages were gone. And that was no easy thing, for every effort was made to guard against this. They left Eldrich behind, who was trusted. But this text, Averil, Mr. Valary, I fear it is like an […]
{4.5/5} “Pirate of the Year is just… commercialized nonsense. Real pirating isn’t about trophies. It’s about fighting up staircases backwards. It’s about sliding down sails with a knife in your teeth. Beard glossiness!” The Pirate Captain would like to win Pirate of the Year but the other pirate captains have once again managed to plunder […]
{4.5/5} “‘You do anything fun Saturday night?’ ‘Well, all the guys in my barbershop quartet are dead. So no, not really.’” When Steve Rogers arrives at his apartment he finds Nick Fury there. Fury implies that the place is bugged and tries to tell him about something important but Fury is shot. Fury hands Steve […]
{5/5} “‘Think, everyone, think. What haven’t we tried yet?’ ‘We haven’t tried not trying to escape.’ ‘Hmm. That might work.’” The chickens on Tweedy’s farm are forced to lay eggs every day and if they don’t they get their heads chopped off. They keep trying to escape, but the Tweedys and their dogs catch them […]
{4.5/5} “Mom’s in Switzerland. Nothing ever happens in Switzerland.” In the near future the world is a dangerous place. Security is in evidence everywhere. When Daisy goes to England to stay with her cousins for the summer, war breaks out. As an American citizen she gets a ticket home — but she decides to stay […]
{4.5/5} “‘We destroy only that which now offends the Whetu’irawaru,’ Fy’ahn said, hir voice like rasps being dragged across flint. ‘Only that which the Fallen Gods now must regret having created in the first place. Only that which would bring still more of their wrath down upon us.” Although the Titan is boldly going where […]
{4/5} “First aid is just a scam dreamed up by the gauze and bandage people.” A mysterious man who Virginia, Burt, and Jimmy have all seen around on occasion turns out to have a surprising relationship to them. Burt and Virginia come up with an idea to start bartering with other people who can offer […]
{5/5} “You’re nothing to me until you’re everything.” Irving and Syndey are con artists, who are caught by FBI agent Richie. Richie forces them, in lieu of going to jail, to help him catch bigger fish — politicians and mobsters. Irving has second thoughts when he grows to like one of the politicians he’s conning. […]
{4.5/5} “Do you know what concerns me most about these gentlemen? Oh, not what you might think. I do not believe them bad. They are not even particularly greedy or selfish, for men in their station. No, what concerns me is the narrowness of their vision. It is a problem with men driven by the […]
{4.5/5} “We’re building a bomb, so you do the opposite of what the warning label says.” Sam, a commander in the Navy Seals, inadvertently sleeps with an admiral’s wife. The admiral finds out and sends him as far away as he can — on a mission to Venezuela. Sam quickly discovers that the people he’s […]