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Oli Jacobs – Filmic Cuts: Sunshine and Lollipops | Review

Title: Filmic Cuts: Sunshine and Lollipops

Author: Oli Jacobs

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 172

Rating: 4/5

I’ve been on an Oli Jacobs hype of late, working my way through as much of his back catalogue as I can track down. He’s a local author (we both live in High Wycombe, and he even has a book out called Strange Days in High Wycombe), and he’s also an indie, so it’s nice to show some support.

I’m not going to pretend that this book is faultless. The layout is a little weird with no justification, spacing between paragraphs and no page numbers, and there are also occasional grammar mistakes including one memorable “their” versus “there” error. But as long as you can get past that, you’re in for a good time.

The stories were great, and each one of them was memorable, which I find is a rarity for a collection of short stories. Jacobs makes for a great short story writer.

Click here to buy Filmic Cuts: Sunshine and Lollipops.

Stephen H. Segal – Geek Wisdom | Review

Title: Geek Wisdom

Author: Stephen H. Segal

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 224

Rating: 4*/5

Stephen H. Segal – Geek Wisdom

This book has its ups and downs, usually depending upon whether you’re familiar with the book, film or TV show that the authors are talking about. The book itself is split over around five different sections, with each section being further seperated into individual quotes with accompanying info on where the quote comes from and what it means to us in our day-to-day lives.

And that, in a nutshell, is what this is – almost a manual on how to live your life based on the teachings of classic geek culture. It’s well-written and often self-referential, and while it is a lot of fun while you’re reading it, it’s also just the right length. After a while, it would start to get tedious, but I think the authors did a good job of including only the very best of their material.

I got annoyed, once or twice, by an error which kept on reoccurring – sometimes words were preceded by a random apostrophe, like ‘this. It’s frustrating, but it wasn’t enough to hamper my enjoyment of what was otherwise a pretty good read, the sort of thing that you could receive as a gift and actually enjoy reading. As long as you’re a geek or nerd.