A Brief History of the Samurai

A Brief History of the Samurai is a book by Joanathan Clements.  It is 319 pages, and covers a little more than a thousand years of the samurai class in Japan.  It is a good primer, but, it is hard to get a grip on Japanese history up to the Tokugawa reign because of all the players and all the rieign changes and civil wars.  I've never really studied the hhistories of European nations before those countries stabilized so I wonder if Japanese history is that much more complicated.  I feel pretty lucky that U.S. history is relatively simpler compared to older nations.

4 Star Review for Sword of the Undead

Got a 4 star reader review on Amazon today.  Sure, I would have liked 5 stars, but it's still a great review.
Click here for the book's Amazon page scroll down for the reviews

San Diego Comic-Con 2010

Boy, this should be re-named Movie-Con.  There were lines to get into lines.  No, I didn't get in.  I just hung around as much as I could outside.  And as far as next year, the 4-day passes are already sold out.  Oh, and I predict that Scott Pilgrim vs the World will be the go-to movie of the year.

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