Scott Lynch is a talented wordsmith. His writing is exceptionally vivid, which he uses to significant effect in his debut novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora. That being said, his characters lack depth, and the plot takes a while to get going, and when it does, it is relatively straightforward. The Lies of Lock Lamora... Continue Reading →
It's finally here!!! When I received this proof from Amazon, I was quite literally blown away. This new cover truly pops! The colors are vivid, the interior images are solid, and the overall feel of the binding is just oh-so-professional. If you're a fan of Aenya or fine books in general, you'll want to add... Continue Reading →
In today's double-whammy podcast, I discuss Stephen King's novella, The Mist—one of King's best and most gripping yarns, IMO—I then don my monocle to shift gears into high-brow territory as my special guest (my wife) and I delve into the equally terrifying (jk) tale that is Kazuo Ishiguro's Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Remains of the Day. My hormone-fueled... Continue Reading →
A whopping thirty-six years after first releasing The Shining (from 1977 to 2013), Stephen King finally gets around to giving us a sequel, Doctor Sleep. That almost makes the wait for Winds of Winter reasonable! Of course, The Shining was in no need of a sequel. There were no loose plot threads to tie up nor... Continue Reading →
Unless you've been living underground awaiting the coming apocalypse, or maybe you just don't like movies, you've probably seen the famous scene with Charlton Heston and the Statue of Liberty. Or perhaps you're a lot younger than me, and you watched the newer series with James Franco and the CGI apes. There is even a... Continue Reading →
"Is he . . . writing?" "Yes. Yes, he is." I heard my nurses saying this, the ones who'd been taking care of me for over the month of May as I was getting treated for acute myeloid leukemia. Now let me just say, chemotherapy is a real bitch. It's straight-up poison they pump directly... Continue Reading →
Am I really doing this? Yep. This guy (me), who grew up on a steady diet of He-Man and D&D, an author known for action, adventure, and monsters bleeding out across the pages of his own books, chose to pick up and read the most chic-flickiest of books ever written, and you know what? I... Continue Reading →
Parts Terminator, parts Spielberg's A.I. (Philip K. Dick's Supertoys Last All Summer Long), parts Pinocchio, T.J. Klune's In The Lives of Puppets is a dystopian Sci-Fi adventure lacking in thrills and imagination. The plot revolves around Victor, the young protagonist and the last human child on Earth, built by a robot father. While this device... Continue Reading →
Pet Sematary is unquestionably Stephen King's darkest novel. In the introduction to my copy, he admits he wasn't sure he wanted to put this one out there. While there are plenty of supernatural aspects to the novel, particularly in the later segments, Sematary stands apart from King's other works by delving into real-life tragedy and... Continue Reading →
The worst possible book you could be reading when you're in the hospital being treated for cancer, and you're seriously contemplating your mortality, is Stephen King's Pet Sematary. King even admits he almost didn't publish Sematary due to its bleak subject matter, so why he would begin to write such a thing is beyond me.... Continue Reading →
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