My first true love of the computer universe was Infocom. This company made Adventure games, more specifically, Text Adventure games. These were games that were both fun and mondo annoying. They were fun as they were often funny and zany and they had all kinds of off the wall references. They were annoying as you could never be sure exactly what the game writers wanted you to type into the text line. They were also a bit more challenging than modern games-as there was no Universal Hint System to sneak a peek or grab an instant solution to a tough…
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Bullet, Anita Blake Does Everyone-Again
Laurell K Hamilton likes to write porn-and judging from the format of her latest Anita Blake book, she must like watching it was well. The feel of Bullet is standard porn style, a bit of plot-sex scene-a bit of plot-sex scene-forget the plot add another sex scene-a bit of plot-sex scene. For a change up from the porn plot she ends with a bit of good old fashioned Tell, Don’t Show exposition which wraps up a number of loose ends by telling us this happened, then this happened, then that happened. The End. Laurell is kind of tired of people…