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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!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
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2002
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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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Dungeon Magazine #96 (January/February 2003) (Dungeon Magazine, #96)
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2003
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The Official Simcity 2000 Planning Commission Handbook
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1993
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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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| I’m very proud of most of my former editors and what they’ve accomplished, but Gary Whitta was a rival editor—editor-in-chief of PC Gamer at the very time that my publisher was cutting back the circulation on Computer Gaming World. We obviously didn’ ...more | |
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| I grew up watching the Perry Mason television show, but only read a few of the mysteries. Erle Stanley Gardner was a prolific writer, but until recently, I’d only read a couple. The Case of the Drowning Duck was reprinted by Ballantine Books decades ...more | |
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| Can you believe that whenever I saw the author’s name, Loren D. Estleman, I kept thinking of the naturalist, Loren Eisley? I had read Eisley in the early ‘70s and wasn’t impressed, so I didn’t bother with Estleman because of my mistake. It is a mista ...more | |
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| I’m not sure how Billy Summers did commercially. I didn’t hear much about it when it came out. I’m sure that Stephen King’s usual base would have been disappointed. My brother gave me this book and I found myself reading it over a period of weeks. Th ...more | |
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| Here’s my initial bias so that no one gets the wrong idea: I am a believer in a relationship with Jesus Christ by means of faith. As a result, I am intrigued by the idea that there are patterns present in religion (in general), magic, myth, legends, ...more | |
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| The Dresden Files is a comfort zone to me. Set in a world where there is some truth to all legends and myths, a cosmos where magic works and doesn’t always corrupt, and in a city I’ve always loved, Chicago (but not the Chicago where I live and work, ...more | |
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| The Dresden Files is a comfort zone to me. Set in a world where there is some truth to all legends and myths, a cosmos where magic works and doesn’t always corrupt, and in a city I’ve always loved, Chicago (but not the Chicago where I live and work, ...more | |
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| My experience with Nobody's Fool was that protagonist Sam Kierce turns out to be "Everybody's Fool." He is careless and uses brute force (sometimes literally, sometimes in the way he approaches problems to be solved) in such a way that he keeps spira ...more | |
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| Allegedly written by the great-grandson of “Rooster” Cogburn (of True Grit fame), Widowmaker Jones is an unusual western. Although it has gunfights and even is a revenge tale, but it is more about character interaction and motivation than action. To ...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.