Amazon.com Review
Witness Stephen King’s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror’s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most...
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This review is based on the paperback edition of Anne Rice’s novel, ‘Christ the Lord Out of Egypt’.
I must admit that as a past reader of Anne Rice vampire novels, I was prepared for a different experience than what I encountered by reading this book. My son gave me my first Anne Rice novel...
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I rarely read novels more than once. There are some I have read several times, but the list might just run to double figures. I have read The Way To Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa twice, but not for the usual reasons. First time though I was so disappointed with the book that I...
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I read A Thousand Splendid Suns having just finished Kite Runner. I would like the opportunity to live life again (who wouldn’t?), if only to have a chance of reversing the order of this experience. I suspect tat had I read A Thousand Splendid Suns first then none of the criticisms I raise about...
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Sometimes, when reading a big book, one gets the feeling that the author set out to achieve size, as if that in itself might suggest certain adjectives from a reader or reviewer – weighty, significant, deep, serious, complex, extensive, perhaps. Sometimes – rarely, in fact – one reads a big book and becomes lost...
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A S Byattâs A Whistling Woman is a strange book. At one level itâs a straightforward account of university life, with its politics, affairs and academic pursuit. But then thereâs the suspicion that none of this is ever satisfying for those involved. They yearn for something bigger, whilst at the same time trying to...
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Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Significant Seven, January 2008: It would be impossible to convey the wonder and the horror of Stephen King’s latest novel in just a few words. Suffice it to say that Duma Key, the story...
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Eighteenth century Venice is an era of decadence and sin, intrigue and corruption, illicit romance and dark secrets. Carnivale and the wearing of opulent masks make hiding while in public easy. Trysts and illicit encounters abound. Danger and violence lurk around any chosen corner. Under this magnificent and glamorous backdrop, the lives of three...
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Amazon.com Review
When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a “quantum foam wormhole,” and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren’t strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit ...
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From Publishers Weekly
What crime fiction fan can resist a guy who isn’t afraid to knock a few slime-bag heads when no one is watching? In Swain’s fine second suspense novel to feature South Florida PI Jack Carpenter (after Midnight Rambler), imprisoned serial killer Abb Grimes hires...
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