Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

January 6, 2015 BobLeave a comment

War is hell, and perhaps there is no more fiendish quality to armed conflict than the loss of humanity that comes with being a wartime soldier. Life is simultaneously priceless and cheap. There are a million ways to die during a war and Louis Zamparini manages to avoid all of them in Unbroken: A World… Continue reading Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

November 30, 2014 BobLeave a comment

Is corn scary? It is a rather bizarre plant. It grows tall and fast and has vaguely human qualities, like corn-silk hair and ears. I never really thought corn was scary, until I read Stephen King‘s Children of the Corn as a teenager. King made corn creepy. But before King conjured the Children of the… Continue reading Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

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The Book of Paul by Richard Long

October 23, 2014 BobLeave a comment

I didn’t know what to expect when I dove into Richard Long’s debut novel, The Book of Paul, other than Stephen King endorsed it and the novel was billed as “ a paranormal thriller.” Based on the cover, I figured The Book of Paul was a mythology-based tale of pirates for young adult readers. The skeleton… Continue reading The Book of Paul by Richard Long

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The Twelve by Justin Cronin

October 8, 2014 BobLeave a comment

The Twelve is a well-written action thriller, a good, solid novel. But it doesn’t hold a candle to The Passage, the first book in author Justin Cronin’s post-apocalyptic vampire series. The Twelve suffers from the same “middle child syndrome” that plagues so may “Book 2s” in a trilogy series. It’s neither a beginning, nor an… Continue reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin

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Horns by Joe Hill

August 27, 2014 BobLeave a comment

Every single one of us has got the devil inside, and nobody knows it better than Ignatius Parrish the narrator of Joe Hill’s novel Horns. Ig wakes after a night of sorrowful drinking to find he’s grown horns on top of his head. Worse yet, the horns bring out the worst in everyone Ig encounters.… Continue reading Horns by Joe Hill

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Short Stories: The Mystery and Men’s Magazines by Richard Laymon

August 17, 2014 Bob1 Comment

These stories are a throwback to a simpler time; a time when people drove around in faux wood panel station wagons, wore bell bottoms, and read fiction magazines for entertainment. That’s right. People used to read. Fiction. For fun! In magazines! The first Richard Laymon story I ever encountered was “The Champion” published in an… Continue reading Short Stories: The Mystery and Men’s Magazines by Richard Laymon

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

August 16, 2014 BobLeave a comment

Author Rick Riordan found a way to make 6th grade Social Studies interesting by giving Greek mythology a modern update and employing a likeable adolescent hero in this first installment of his Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, The Lightning Thief. Percy is a dyslexic, ADHD kid who has been kicked out of six schools… Continue reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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On Writing – A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King

July 7, 2014 BobLeave a comment

I recently downloaded a digital edition of Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft after reading the hardcover more than a decade ago. I planned on skimming my ebook edition, looking for a few pointers, but I was immediately drawn in by Big Steve’s affable style, and I wound up re-reading the book in its… Continue reading On Writing – A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King

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Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates

July 7, 2014 BobLeave a comment

Reading Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates is like slipping into a fever dream. It’s all dark winter mood and brooding atmosphere in this novel. Bellefleur covers three generations of the Bellefleur family over the course of more than 200 years. Ms. Oates builds this long, sprawling novel with long, sprawling sentences filled with parenthetical asides and a… Continue reading Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates

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The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee

May 26, 2014 BobLeave a comment

Remember the fine young cannibals? Not the band that sang, “She Drives Me Crazy” and “Good Thing.” The band of cannibals that ate tourists along the coast of Maine in Jack Ketchum‘s classic novels, Off Season and Offspring. (Know by fans as Ketchum’s Dead River Series.) The Woman is back in all her feral glory, and authors Ketchum and… Continue reading The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee

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