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Jesus Garcia
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The Big Lizard Book of Black Mask Stories. About 800 pages of criminal fun.
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Mike O'Brien
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Black Lizard.The best crime fiction publishing company on earth!
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Jesus Garcia
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Yeah, baby, yeah!
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Steven Myers
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I got through Dracula the same way I did Lord of the Rings: listened to them on audio books. I could never get past the part in the Hobbit where he discusses how much Hobbit's eat. zzzzzzz. I felt vindicated when I discovered Gary Gygax didn't much like Tolkien, either. And Gary did okay working in the fantasy genre himself...
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Eric Ladd
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In preparation of the HBO series airing in a few weeks I have started rereading George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones.
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Jesus Garcia
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Sometimes it's a good idea to avoid reading any critique of a book before diving into it. F'rinstance. The Lord of the Rings: I'd read somewhere that one of Tolkien's objectives was to write a long, rambling pseudo-history. And I did indeed find the first and second books long and rambling, with payoffs far and few. Never got beyond the first third of the second book. Had I not read the critique, I probably would have figured that it was just my impression that the book was deliberately long (instead of the author simply letting the story find its own length) and I would have made the effort to finish all three.
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John Byrne
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I'd read somewhere that one of Tolkien's objectives was to write a long, rambling pseudo-history.•• Then you were misinformed.
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Will Hansen
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The Mourner by Richard Stark, then Butcher's Moon (just reissued) by Stark. Down to the last five of Stark's (Donald Westlake) Parker novels.
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Michael Tortorice
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I'm up to The Mastermind of Mars. Just when I thought ERB couldn't surprise me again, he gives us the Martian (Barsoomian?) Dr. Frankenstein. Very interesting.
On the subject of Dracula, I really liked it. I was quite surprised to read Van Helsing's description of the Vampire, that Dracula himself was actually very young, as Vampires go.
And just to weigh in on LOTR, I've read that it was Tolkien's intention to write a pseudo-history, but he didn't think it was long enough, and rambling didn't even enter into it. Of course it started simply as a child's tale he told his son through a series of letters while he was away at war.
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Al Cook
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I decided to pick up The Tommyknockers by Stephen King from the back of my bookshelf recently, and give it a re-read for the first time since it came out. I'm being quickly reminded why I stopped reading King during that time; I'm constantly wanting to shake the book and yell at it "get on with it already!!!"
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The Mourner by Richard Stark, then Butcher's Moon (just reissued) by Stark. Down to the last five of Stark's (Donald Westlake) Parker novels.
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THE MOURNER feels a bit different from the other Parker novels I've read. Not bad, but like it doesn't quite fit.
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Matt Reed
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After I finish IMMORTAL LAST WORDS: HISTORY'S MOST MEMORABLE DYING REMARKS, DEATHBED DECLARATIONS AND FINAL FAREWELLS by Terry Breverton I'm very excited to start THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot. Read a ton of great reviews and the description sounds fascinating: "Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells - taken without her knowledge in 1951 - became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing: of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew." Really looking forward to starting it.
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