Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and a bunch of other super heroes in a movie directed by Joss Whedon? That can only be awesome or awful but nothing in between. In the movie The Avengers our planet earth is threatened by a powerful alien army. The secret organisation S.H.I.E.L.D. is desperately trying to prevent the evil demigod Loki from opening [...]
Mass Effect 3 is the epic conclusion of the Mass Effect trilogy of video games. In the previous games your avatar, Commander Shepard, stops advanced forces of the Reapers, a race of sapient machines that want to annihilate all advanced civilisations in the galaxy. But all her efforts could only delay the inevitable and the Reapers [...]
After seeing a trailer for The Hunger Games I was immediately interested in this story. It reminded me of the Bread and circuses strategy used by the Romans to appease their population. I therefore ordered the three books of the The Hunger Games trilogy and read all of them in a few weeks. Last weekend Silke and I went [...]