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(comic book review) Vojna by Goran Duplančić is an excellent work from this Croatian author!

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It is a mid 1991 and Yugoslavia is about to end when Croatia and Slovenia decided to exit the failed state and start their own independent lives. That brought bloody civil war in my country with Serbs attacking Croatia, dirty war in Bosnia, but it all started with couple of weeks war in Slovenia when Yugoslav National Army tried to keep Slovenia from exiting Yugoslavia and in the war between soldiers and Slovenian Territorial Defence lives where lost and this senseless shit started to unfold. Well, Goran Duplančić, Croatian author released a graphic novel which tells his autobiography story when he served in YNA as a corporal in Ljubljana, capitol of Slovenia in those days, and tells all confusion, tragedy, violence and nationalism that started right there through the eyes of a young man who only tries to survive and come back home alive. This is a powerful story, that grabs you and keeps you reading until you finish it and makes you think a lot about that afterwards, because I can relate to this one, because I lived through all those tragic and confused days, months and years. I love how Goran´s inner visions and background story interplays with the main story and makes it even deeper and personal. This is one of the best comic books I have read in a long time. Heartily rec ommendation.

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(books) Andrew O´Neill – A history of heavy metal

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I know what most of you think when you see the title of this book and review. Oh no, not another heavy metal history book about this beloved genre of music and there were tons of them written before. No, this one is a keeper. Andrew O´Neill is metal and hardcore punk musician who did a comedy show called A History Of Heavy Metal about this music by fan for fans and done in humoristic, refreshing and also informative way. This book is an expanded edition of that show. There are chapters from literally heavy metal done by neanderthals to Black Sabbath, doom thrash, black metal, death metal, even plagues such as metalcore and nu metal. I caught myself laughing many times while reading this and I really enjoyed every second and page turning eager to see what is next. This is a crazy, hilarious and superb book for all metal fans, but those who are not into metal could read it to. But they will not understand it. Or maybe? There are anecdotes, facts and humor all in one place. A heartfelt recommendation for this one.

10/10

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(book) Dean Koontz´s Winter Moon is not his finest, but it is a decent suspense novel.

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Dean Koontz is probably one of the best known writers of suspense thriller/horror fiction out there and is also one of my personal favorites. I am eager to complete reading of his works, so this one somehow came first into my hands. Story of this novel is about a heroic cop Jack McGarvey who is badly wounded in a shootout with a maniac high on PCP at the gas station. Jack also loses his partner along with couple other civilians and barely escapes with his life.

Second storyline follows Eduardo Fernandez, an old man on his Quatermass(nice homage to Hammer horror) ranch where strange things happen in the woods of snowy Montana. As it goes McGarvey family moves to that ranch and starts fight for their very lives and sanity, but also whole humanity on that little corner of snowy nowhere.

Well, this one was tense, as we are used from Koontz, nice to read and a page turner, especially last ten chapters through which McGarveys struggle to stay alive fighting the enemy. But, the other storyline Koontz somehow started with followers, cult of late maniac director who bother McGarvey family somehow gets lost along the way. As I read this one, I somehow couldn´t escape the fact that Koontz kind of recycles himself and his novels such as Phantoms or Servants of the Twilight, but does not really know which way to take. This is a decent one, but not top of his works.

6/10