reviews

Doing the "review per author's request" stuff is currently on hold

I am temporarily suspending my growing list of books for review.

For authors who contacted me prior to this date (12th of August 2016) I assure you that I am committed to finish your books, namely Brydie Walker Bain (The Secret of Sinbad's Cave), Cathy Kennedy (Meeting of the Mustangs), and JJ Sherwood (Kings or Pawns). I will let you know when my review post is imminent.

Please accept my apologies because I will be giving you super-late reviews (I took the Sinbad book last year!) as my Tsundoku stash continues to grow and stares at me like a vicious predator. Once again, my apologies for the late reviews and also for authors out there with new review offers that I will have to turn down.

Thank you.


FICTION
Sorted alphabetically (by surname of the author) from selected book readings in 2009-present. Electronic, digital, short and flash fictions are included.
Marcus Adoro & Apol Sta Maria - Greems
Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves
Paul Auster - Oracle Night
Brydie Walker Bain - The Secret of Sinbad's Cave
Paz Marquez Benitez - Dead Stars
William Blake - Selected Poems
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Ely Buendia & Arnold Arre - The Pillar
Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
Michael Chabon - The Final Solution
Daniel Clausen - The Ghosts of Nagasaki
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Adam David - The El Bimbo Variations
Mes De Guzman - Barriotic Punk
Lourd De Veyra - Super Panalo Sounds!
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
Harlan Ellison - "Repent, Harlequin!" Said The Ticktockman
Gilda Cordero Fernando & Gilbert Daroy - The Magic Circle
Emil M. Flores & Joseph Frederic F. Nacino, ed. - Diaspora Ad Astra 
Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton - Atlas Obscura
Chris Fuhrman - The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at The End of The Lane
David Gemmell - Legend
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Seth Grahame-Smith - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Robert Heinlein - All You Zombies
Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers
Tess Uriza Holthe - When The Elephants Dance
Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of The Window and Disappeared
Stieg Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
John Le Carre - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Sergei Lukyanenko - Nightwatch
George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. - Songs of Love and Death
Ben Mezrich - Bringing Down the House
Fuminori Nakamura - The Gun
Alan Navarra - Dumot
Tim Powers - Declare
Christopher Priest - The Prestige
Michael Punke - The Revenant
Agostino Scafidi - Fancy Pants Poetry
Agostino Scafidi - Fancy Pants Poetry 2
Will Self - Design Faults in The Volvo 760 Turbo
Dan Simmons - Song of Kali
Neal Stephenson - Anathem
Miguel Syjuco - Ilustrado
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
Ned Vizzini - Teen Angst? Naaah...
Voltaire - Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut Jr  - Slaughterhouse Five
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We


NON-FICTION
Same rule as Fiction Books above.
Robert Alejandro - The Sketching Backpacker
Walden Bello - Food Wars
Richard Benson - Blackboard Blunders
Peter & Bery Daniel - Rawlicious Superfoods
Adam David - The El Bimbo Variations
Guillermo Del Toro - Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
Lourd De Veyra - Espiritu
Lourd De Veyra - The Best of This is A Crazy Planets
Lourd De Veyra - The Best of This is A Crazy Planets 2
ESQUIRE Magazine - Things A Man Should Know About Marriage
Dr Alan Francis - Everything Men Know About Women
Malcolm Gladwell - David and Goliath
Seth Godin - The Dip
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
Baltasar Gracian - How to Use Your Enemies
Jeannie Javelosa - Revisiting Relationships
Carljoe Javier - The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth
Bruce Lee - Wisdom of the Way
Jaime Licauco - From The Profound To The Profane
Kevin Mitnick & William Simon - Ghost in the Wires
Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings
Tadahiko Nagao & Isamu Saito - Kokology: The Game of Self-Discovery
Ambeth Ocampo - Looking Back 1
Ambeth Ocampo - Looking Back 6
Manny Pacquiao - Pacman
A.A. Patawaran - Write Here Write Now
Michael Pollan - Food Rules
Yeng Remulla - Productive Pinoy
Ken Robinson - The Element
John Rocco et al. ed. - The Nirvana Companion
Edgar Calabia Samar - 101 Kagila-gilalas na Nilalang
Ella Frances Sanders - Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around The World
Miriam Defensor Santiago - Stupid is Forever
Antony Shugaar (NGS) - I Lie For A Living - Greatest Spies of All Time
Michael N. Smith & Eric Kasum - 100 of the Worst Ideas in History
Erik Westra - Python Geospatial Development

Ancient reviews republished in Reading Latitudes
More reviews @ Shelfari.com


COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sorted formerly as Fiction, I decided comics need to be categorized separately because of the highly visual narrative form compared to traditional novels & non fictions. A comic book remains an art, and a piece of literature. 
Manix Abrera - 12
Manix Abrera - 14
Manix Abrera - Kikomachine Komix 10
Gerry Alanguilan - Elmer
Gerry Alanguilan & Arlan EsmeƱa - Where Bold Stars Go To Die
Gerry Alanguilan & Arnold Arre - Darna Lives
Gerry Alanguilan & Arnold Arre - Rodski Patotski: Ang Dalagang Baby
Arnold Arre - After Eden
Arnold Arre - Halina Filipina
Francisco V. Coching - El Indio
Francisco V. Coching - Lapu Lapu
Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell - Murder Mysteries
Mervin Ignacio & Ian Sta Maria - Skyworld Vol. 1
Mervin Ignacio & Ian Sta Maria - Skyworld Vol. 2
Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima - Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. 1 - The Assassin's Road
Jeff Lemire, et. al. - Bloodshot Reborn Deluxe Edition 1
Steve Magay, et. al. - Kayaw 1
Mervin Malonzo - Tabi Po 1
Mervin Malonzo - Tabi Po 2
Pol Medina Jr - Pugad Baboy 23
Mark Millar & Duncan Fegredo - MPH
Russell Molina & Ian Sta Maria - Sixty Six
Elbert Or ed. - Love & Heartbreak
Jose Rizal, Adam David, Mervin Malonzo - Ang Subersibo 1
Apol Sta Maria - Ang Alamat ng Panget & Many Other
Budjette Tan & KaJo Baldisimo - TRESE 4: Last Seen After Midnight
Budjette Tan & KaJo Baldisimo - TRESE 5: Midnight Tribunal
Bill Watterson - The Indispensable Calvin & Hobbes


MAGAZINES
Reading zines is sometimes much better than mocking up somebody else's future through palmistry...
Kwentillion (Premiere Issue) - May 2012
Esquire Philippines (Premiere Issue) - October 2011
SPIN - August 2011
Rolling Stone - May 2011
Rogue Philippines - May 2011 
Playboy Philippines - not so fast, kid!


MOVIES
Sorted by age from selected viewings since 2011-2013 & 2015. 
Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens
The Wolverine
Pacific Rim
Monsters University
World War Z
Man of Steel
Fast and Furious 6
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Iron Man 3
Oblivion
Dredd 3D
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Rorouni Kenshin
Skyfall
Looper
Bourne Legacy
The Dark Knight Rises
The Amazing Spider-Man
Prometheus
Men in Black 3
Avengers
Wrath of the Titans
The Hunger Games
Chronicle
Hanna


TV SERIES
What the...
Mr Robot Season 1


ALBUMS / LPs / EPs
Hear! Hear!
Agostino Scafidi - Let Your Light Shine
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Eraserheads - Esquire September 2014 freebie


E-READER APP
Google Play Books for Android


all reviews written and owned by Narj Salazar