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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
Goodreads Author
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 (January/February 2003) (Dungeon Magazine, #96)
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2003
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Civilization: Call to Power, Official Strategy Guide
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1999
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Call to Power II: Official Strategy Guide
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2000
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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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| Brian Michael Bendis is not my favorite comics author. For light-hearted comics, I prefer the style of Mark Waid, and for darker comics, I prefer either Ed Brubaker’s noir comics or Alan Moore (not just Watchmen and Swamp Thing but the scariest Lovec ...more | |
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| The Damien Seeker series of historical fictional accounts of Cromwell’s Protectorate includes some of my favorite historical mysteries. As the blurb on one of the novels contends, Damien Seeker is an intrinsically conflicted protagonist. Of course, t ...more | |
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| If one is looking for a YA alternative (or supplement) to the late Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, Goblins would not be a bad choice. Like Pratchett’s protagonists, Henwyn the Cheesemaker (Does that mean, as with the Pythons, he is “blessed?”) ha ...more | |
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| I have definitely read the Spenser novels in asynchronous order. I’ve read them as I’ve bought them and as my brother has given them to me. So, I don’t have a coherent viewpoint on these mysteries and the protagonist as I do Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe an ...more | |
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| I love mysteries, but I don’t read Agatha Christie novels because I read one as a teenager in which the reader had no possibility of solving the mystery. For the same reason, I won’t be reading any novels by Tom Savage anytime soon. Scavenger is one ...more | |
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| Bear Hug was a rather fascinating mystery story to me. There is a murder involved, but that is not the mystery. The mystery is what happened to the millions that a con man worthy of Ponzi, Madoff, Keating, and Trump had stolen from a bunch of retiree ...more | |
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| The late Ben Bova built an entire series of novels on the idea of exploring our own solar system. I haven’t read them all, but my brother provided me with Saturn and I’m glad he did. As in the previous books (particularly those about the moon and Mar ...more | |
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| The late Andrew Greeley wrote a series of mysteries with titles building off the Beatitudes (from Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount”). Since his investigator in this series, who has appeared in most of Greeley’s mysteries is Monsignor Blackwood “Blackie” R ...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.