read 1001 paintings to see before you die well actually 996 paintings since this library copy had been hacked about and was missing pages and paintings mainly from the fifteenth century section suffered from the layout of one or two paintings and artists to a page and colourfully went from 18th dynasty egypt to the turner prize more detailed post 1950 and in the 2000's and for a great painting book few great masters more of a word view with from the start art from china, india and japan but in the main still life portrait landscape mixed up feelings with paint
first life david attenborough based on the bbc series of same name and full of blue water photo-spreads, slabs of rock and computer graphic reconstructions of the early life from archaen bacteria to micro fossils , trilobites to dragonflies a tale of linear evolution but well detailed and wide ranging the bbc film crew had gone world wide with visits to burgess shale, mistaken point and carboniferous sandstone
star wars old republic Revan by drew karypyshtn set 4000 years or so before luke skywalker this is another tale based n the video game concerning Revan Jedi knight turned Dark lord and back again as if after a bout of force flu to Jedi knight again despite being set thousands of years ago a mess of droids, jedi imperial sith troopers and mercenary cantini scum
played up to the action and given that it is old republic slotted in medieval dungeons and dragons wizard sith, dark fortresses and chained slaves worth a read even if you are not a game player
Ghosts of war by george mann a steampunk batman from the pulp era echoes of HP lovecraft but more dixon hill than lee falk set in a alternative world of Queen Alberta it had our ex fighter pilot hero battling flying night creatures and ended in a climatic airship versus monster fight
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