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Book Review: Welcome To The Monkey House

As much as I love Kurt Vonnegut’s entire body of work, there are few of them that I love the way I love Welcome To The Monkey House. It’s a book of short stories by a man who generally published longer works of fiction, but wow–it’s really good. Mark Twain said once that if he [...]

November 5, 2010 READ MORE →

Swan Song by Robert McCammon – Book Review

As much as I loved Swan Song by Robert McCammon, I usually refer to it as “The Stand” lite. That is not meant as a criticism. The books are very similar, both in size, story, tone, and are pretty close in enjoyability. They each boast lots and lots of characters, and stories that are surprisingly [...]

October 28, 2010 READ MORE →

The Stand by Stephen King – Book Review

Judging from the amount of people who type “Stephen King The Stand Review” or “The Stand Stephen King review” into Google every month, its’ still on some people’s minds, happily for me. The countdown to Halloween continues. I’m not sure why it has taken me this long to get around to reviewing The Stand by [...]

October 24, 2010 READ MORE →

Five Wonderful Books About A Horrible Future

Who doesn’t like to gaze into the future and dream about how wonderful things will soon be? Not these authors. They are/were more interested in trying to figure out just how bad things could get. And they each created at least one very specific vision of what that might mean. 1. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt [...]

October 2, 2009 READ MORE →

Book Review: 1984

Most books that want to be scary aren’t the least bit frightening. The books I reviewed in the zombie renaissance post are dark and bloody, but when you read about zombies, do you really think: “Oh man, this would be so scary if it was happening!” If you do, there’s nothing wrong with that. I [...]

August 10, 2009 READ MORE →