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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark por Carl Sagan

Darkblade: Reaper of Souls por Dan Abnett

The Book of Questions por Gregory Stock

God's Demon por Wayne Barlowe

Jitterbug perfume por Tom Robbins

Ralph Compton: The Man From Nowhere por Joseph A. West

A Twist at The End por Steven Saylor

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Autores favoritosIsaac Asimov, Stephen Baxter, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert E. Howard, John Irving, Garrison Keillor, Stephen King, Bentley Little, Colleen McCullough, Michael Moorcock, Jean Shepherd, John Steinbeck, Peter Straub, Amy Tan, Tennessee Williams (Favoritos partilhados)

Livrarias favoritasBarnes & Noble Booksellers - The Woodlands, Half Price Books - North Oaks Center

Sobre mimI'm currently reading: I've recently finished:

Books first, since this is a book site after all: I love scary stories and have a real soft spot for first time authors. I buy way too many books to reasonably read (especially since I consider myself a slow reader). I only read one book at a time. Otherwise I feel like I'm short-changing the author.

I like to carry my books with me everywhere I go (and I'm a cheap bastard), so I prefer good old mass market paperbacks. I will pick up trade paperbacks if that is all that is available, but avoid hardbacks.

I am perhaps a little too verbose in my reviews. I write like I talk. Can't help it.

In order to support my obscene book buying habit, I maintained a seasonal position at Barnes & Noble. Please put books away if you aren't going to buy them!

Other stuff: Born and raised in California, but cheap real estate brought me to the suburban hell that is The Woodlands, TX (a few miles outside of Houston).

I'm kind of a boring person and at times think I could be happy as a hermit. I'm a left-leaning atheist, which makes me a pariah whenever politics or religion come up in public here in Dubya's home state.

Like everybody else, I enjoy books, movies and music (books most of all). In all three I've noticed that I can enjoy Great Works and crap. But I always have some sort of justification for the crap I enjoy.

As for movies, I love horror movies (especially John Carpenter's stuff) and anything by Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg or Sergio Leone. I'm also a big fan of Godzilla or any of the other Toho giant monster movies. For me it just doesn't get better than a man in a rubber suit knocking over buildings, unless it's two men in rubber suits fighting and knocking over buildings. Yeah, baby! That's the good stuff!

I won't bore you with my fav music.

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Sobre a minha bibliotecaA book with no rating means I haven't read it or it's been so long that I should re-read it. That's most of my books!

I try to feed my head with decent literature, but a quick scan of my library shows that really I'm a horror junky who loves a generous dose of hard sci-fi and some historical fiction on the side. My latest addiction is pulpy, schlocky westerns.

I really enjoy American lit from the first half of the twentieth century. Steinbeck is my very favorite author, but I also love Fitzgerald and Hemingway. I've tried some Faulkner and Sinclair Lewis and some others, but so far no one else has moved me the way those big three have.

My true love is horror stories. I think it stems from my interest in folk tales and urban legends. I really go for stories of the supernatural invading everyday life. I don't like endless series about weepy, erotic vampires in black lace. I like my horror stories to have strong characters. They seem to make the supernatural hi-jinks easier to swallow. My favorite writers are Stephen King (except the Dark Tower books. I tend to skip those), Peter Straub and Bentley Little.

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid, but I think I grew out of it once I discovered Arthur C. Clarke and hard sci-fi. I've tried picking up some fantasy since then, but it just doesn't have the magic it once did. (Except maybe for Michael Moorcock...) I do still like reading stuff from the pulp days. Fritz Leiber goes sadly unrecognized as a fantasy grand master. Love Robert E. Howard's stuff. He seems to be the antithesis of what fantasy is nowadays.

I love sci-fi in the 2001 mold. Near future stories set within the solar system about encounters with aliens or alien artifacts. Usually very technical descriptions of life in space with pretty flat characters. Steven Baxter is my favorite current writer. I also love Isaac Asimov and as mentioned Arthur C. Clarke.

Shogun introduced me to the wonder of historical fiction. I especially have a soft spot for ancient Greece and Rome. Some of my favorites are Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire, Colleen McCullough's The Song of Troy and Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa books.

I've only listed books here if I currently own them myself. (My better half has a slew of Dean Koontz books for instance, but I don't consider them 'mine' so they aren't listed.)

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I read his Serenity Falls trilogy aside from DEEPER. I didn't find it any better. I think I still have BLOOD RED by him at the bottom of my pile. I will get to it eventually since I already bought it. Maybe it will surprise me.

publicado por Huge_Horror_Fan às 10:56 pm (EST) em Dec 16, 2009

Hey James,

I just thumbed up your review on DEEPER by Moore. Your thoughts on the book resonated my own. All the horror fans that I interact with rave about Moore, but I am yet waiting to be impressed. I have had that same feeling with all his books up until now (not just DEEPER) where I just can't seem to connect with the characters or, sometimes, even the story itself. Sometimes I literally get lost along the way because my mind wonders from that lack of connection.

I guess he just isn't for everyone...

Cheers \ HHF

publicado por Huge_Horror_Fan às 10:23 pm (EST) em Dec 16, 2009

So, James, I have to bring up Robotech.

What a great series, no?! I posted in your Sci-Fi thread about it, as well. It's always been a favorite, and I am in the midst of a re-read as we speak (on the final volume). Did you read the entire series, or did you keep with a certain group? I must admit, I haven't read it all. I grew up reading the Macross Saga, and then the Sentinels. I just couldn't get into the other 'sagas', probably because of how I felt about the Macross crew.

publicado por deslni01 às 4:43 pm (EST) em Dec 2, 2009

On this one, you are likely to know better than me, as this is one I think I may have wrong, from memory, and haven't got around to checking. So do what you think is correct.

publicado por bluetyson às 9:54 am (EST) em Nov 17, 2009

I saw we were both reading it as well. Your Gary Braunbeck thread piqued my interest in reading more of his books again. I think your review was spot on. The book was very well written (as was Mr Hands) and he has the ability to invoke a great deal of emotion for the plight of his characters. Although I rated it a bit higher, dark fantasy isn't my favorite genre either. For me, his books have the same effect that Tom Piccirilli books have in that they are very well written but a bit too lyrical. I'm not sure if that's the right term, but I sometimes feel I'm not grasping the symbolism although I'm enjoying the read.

publicado por timdt às 6:56 pm (EST) em Oct 4, 2009

Am I to understand that you are a stephen king fan but you have not *gasp* read the dark tower series??!!

publicado por erinbearlina às 10:02 pm (EST) em Oct 2, 2009

Hey---glad you enjoyed the review. Gary's one of the best in the field.

publicado por NickCato às 11:01 pm (EST) em Sep 16, 2009

Thanks for the welcome! I may very well join the Christine read in October. Just now I finished up the first Repairman Jack--very nice, I've been shelving them for a million years, but only recently thought to pick one up--and begun Under the Dome, which I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of. So far, awesome.

As to your comment about work crap leading to more reading crap--right there with you. I'm in the book business (Borders), and we are so up against it with our new corporate structure and [anti]philosophy that when I'm not at work I just want to read one thriller after another.

But it's better than drugs for the health, and a little more cost effective.

Talk to you in the group!

Becky

publicado por BeckyJG às 11:29 am (EST) em Sep 15, 2009

PS Just read a handful of your reviews, as well. Nice work!

publicado por BeckyJG às 1:13 pm (EST) em Sep 13, 2009

Hi there!

Dropped by because I'm thinking of joining the 2010 Flavor of the Month group read, and you're the guy who posted the list.

Love your profile comments--I think we may be reading soulmates after a fashion, because I feel the same way about the Great Works/crap dichotomy, as well as the justification for the crap. Hey, it's all good in one way or another.

Anyway, hope to chat over at Constant Readers now and again.

Happy reading (and collecting!).

Becky

publicado por BeckyJG às 1:03 pm (EST) em Sep 13, 2009

I understand completely. The book is available on Amazon.com for about $10, but since I’m hoping for a review, I didn’t feel it was appropriate to expect you to buy a copy :)

publicado por cmtusa às 11:12 pm (EST) em Sep 3, 2009

Noticed you liked Out by Natsuo Kirino, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here, as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also gritty, a bit violent, and a bit dark :) I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the novel before you commit.

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

publicado por cmtusa às 9:21 pm (EST) em Sep 3, 2009

Thanks!

publicado por KentAllard1 às 3:18 am (EST) em Aug 25, 2009

Thanks for commenting on my review, and picking up that typo - I've been making a hell of a lot of them since I was exiled to this wretched country and have to use a tiny netbook for all my writing.

publicado por edgeworth às 1:51 am (EST) em Aug 23, 2009

> I just wanted to say that Reviews Reviewed is quickly becoming one of my favorite groups. Thanks for starting it.

Praise is always welcome, of course :) but I don't deserve all the credit, I wouldn't have done it without encouragement. I floated the idea for a group of this sort here in Go Review That Book and a few others made suggestions and gave the necessary encouragement. Until recently, after I'd been on LT for a while, I hadn't tried to write reviews, so I reckon I need some help and RR is where I get it.

publicado por jimroberts às 4:40 pm (EST) em Aug 11, 2009

Hi, jseger! Thanks for your note. I have a beautiful picture of one of my sons sitting (what looks to me to be) too close to the edge. And as he goes back to the Grand Canyon whenever he gets the chance, I'm afraid to ever look at that book. Right now, he is in Alaska, backpacking at Denali, swimming in the Arctic Ocean, and who knows what other mother-worrying activities. I just always breathe a sigh of relief when he's back at school!

Hope you're having a great vacation!

countrylife

(For continuity) you said:

Hey, I'm on vacation and went to Sedona today. I saw a book very similar to the one you reviewed. It was called 'Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon'.

Not sure if you are really all that interested in a second book dealing with death at a national park, but it reminded me of your review.

publicado por countrylife às 3:48 pm (EST) em Aug 11, 2009

The Longarms are, I gather, variable in quality. The ones by James Reasoner, though, are supposed to be very good.

(I usually only check this profile when I mirror a review from my LJ here -- sorry I haven't responded earlier!)

publicado por Pulpfan às 1:56 am (EST) em Jul 4, 2009

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