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Johnny’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Johnny’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Johnny L. Wilson
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Born
in Santa Maria, California, The United States
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Bible, Board Games, Computers
Member Since
February 2008
Comic Book Novels
Perhaps, it would be more accurate to describe the types of novels I want to write about in this essay as novels with media ties. Although this discussion was inspired by a novel about a comic book character rather than the typical novelization of a motion picture about a comic book character, some of the observations I wish to bring to the party are appropriate for novelizations, as well. And, to
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High Score
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The Simcity Planning Commission Handbook
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1990
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Sid Meier's Civilization or Rome on 640k a day
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1992
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The Official Simcity 2000 Planning Commission Handbook
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1993
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Dungeon Magazine #96
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2003
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Call to Power II: Official Strategy Guide
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2000
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Civilization: Call to Power, Official Strategy Guide
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1999
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The Simearth Bible
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1991
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The Death Beyond (Lost Tomes of Karak, #1)
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2006
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Metal Lords: The Official Strategy Guide
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Johnny’s Recent Updates
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| As with all of Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee novels, The Lacquer Screen is a fictionalized version of what an actual 7th century Chinese prefect (for want of a more precise word) might have done in investigating crimes. Robert van Gulik is familiar wi ...more | |
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| At last, I’m on track with the first Roderick Alleyn novel, A Man Lay Dead. Alas, my favorite supporting character in the series, “B’rer” Fox, does not appear, but we are introduced to a pre-matrimonial Nigel Bathgate in this initial foray. The story ...more | |
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| Part of the Pinnacle Books pulp adventure paperbacks (sometimes called “Men’s Action”) published by (pun intended) parent company, Bee-Line Books, in the 1970s, The Vegas Trap follows the tropes found in that line. Hal Kantor’s casino scam romp featu ...more | |
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| Even if one is unfamiliar with Terry Pratchett’s hilarious Discworld series of humorous fantasy novels, one should be able to tell from the spelling of the title, Sourcery, that this is not a serious book. Neither fantastic nor the archaic phantastic ...more | |
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| The Dismas Hardy series of legal mystery/thrillers is replete with positive reinforcement to keep one reading. In Poison alone, there is the initial mystery to which is added complementary mysteries which may or may not be relevant to the central mys ...more | |
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Daniel Clausen's review
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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality:
"I like to pick books at random and wander for a bit. Sometimes these wanderings take me places I want to go and find rewarding, other times they just take me wandering. But wandering is important. It's important to get lost, to try new things, to add"
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| One doesn’t always feel like a title is perfect from the very beginning of one’s reading. A Divided Loyalty is a perfect title. I can’t explain just how perfect it is without risking the ultimate spoiler. Let’s just say that Inspector Ian Rutledge is ...more | |
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| For years, my library had three volumes of a four-volume set of Watchman Nee devotionals for new believers. At some point, I either loaned or lost volume 2, The Good Confession. As it may sound, this volume is about new believers speaking up about th ...more | |
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| If it weren’t for my middle brother, my reading habits would probably get funneled into a narrower spectrum of genres. For instance, I don’t read a lot of short stories and I don’t read a lot of westerns, but Quincannon’s Game is not only an antholog ...more | |
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I figured I should befriend you since I intend on invoking Johnny's Law all over the place.
That's cool with me. I love getting credit for stating the obvious.