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  • June 5th, 2012 2:22pm

       Finally picked up a copy of of The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman yesterday (the second book in the Anno Dracula series). I’ve made about a quarter of the way through and I like it almost as much as I did Anno Dracula (I loved Anno Dracula, sooo). The only downside, which really isn’t a downside at all, is the fact that Charles Beauregard doesn’t have a prominent role, but I guess that’s to be expected since he’s a big(ger) shot in Diogenes Club. 

      Anyway, I definitely recommend this book and Anno    Dracula to anyone who enjoys a read. 

  • March 26th, 2012 9:53pm

    Stephen King’s review of The Hunger Games novel

    allthingsking:

    To clarify, this is not about the movie. Off we go.

    As posted on ew.com:

    As negative Utopias go, Suzanne Collins has created a dilly. The United States is gone. North America has become Panem, a TV-dominated dictatorship run from a city called the Capitol. The rest of Panem is divided into 12 Districts (the former 13th had the bad judgment to revolt and no longer exists). The yearly highlight in this nightmare world is the Hunger Games, a bloodthirsty reality TV show in which 24 teenagers chosen by lottery — two from each District — fight each other in a desolate environment called the ”arena.” The winner gets a life of ease; the losers get death. The only ”unspoken rule” is that you can’t eat the dead contestants. Let’s see the makers of the movie version try to get a PG-13 on this baby.

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    This is why I love Stephen King. 

  • November 23rd, 2011 11:48pm

    Time Enough For Love was awesome. To Sail Beyond The Sunset was really, reeeeally weird, but I liked it. Heinlein is one of the few authors that can weave an obscene amount of sex into a good story. And the only author I’ve ever read that does it as often, as he does it well.