I don’t know if this is a good book or not. It’s pretty silly at times…for example, there’s a part in which someone gives Lestat a VHS copy of the Judge Reinhold/Fred Savage movie Vice Versa…a body switching movie from the 80s that I saw about 50 times as a kid. But in the same moments, this person also gives Lestat copies of a HP Lovecraft story…and I do really like the trope of using real-life books and stories about vamapires and the undead and […]
Episode 1-21: Wither, Blister, Burn, and Peel
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/06/04/episode-1-21-wither-blister-burn-and-peel/ Wherein I review: 77. A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter 78. Think of a Number (Dave Gurney #1) by John Verdon 79. Weaveworld by Clive Barker 80. Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney #2) by John Verdon 81. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware 82. Mean Business on North Ganson Street by S. Craig Zahler 83. Human Acts by Han Kang 84. Let The Devil Sleep (Dave Gurney #3) by John Verdon That’ll teach me to take a week off. […]
I really wanted to like this, but…
So this book was suggested to me by someone (I think here in one of my other zombie book reviews, or maybe over on Pajiba). I bought the audiobook from Amazon, and started listening to it a few weeks ago when my carpool partner was away for two weeks. Like I said in my title – I really wanted to like it. Unfortunately, it never really grabbed me. The idea was solid, and I don’t know if it was just the writing style, or the […]
Demons and Diversity…Out West
It’s going to be hard for me to describe this book, let alone review it. I really liked it! But it’s hard to put a pin in. First, I’ll say that it took me awhile to finally get to this book. I bought it when it was on sale through a BookBub email and I saw it had very good reviews, but then every time I’d look at my Kindle and read the description I’d lose interest because I really don’t read westerns. And this […]
An amazing but ultimately explicable act of legerdemain?
Texas Dracula. But also a murder mystery and police procedural. So the new Stephen King is pretty much the old Stephen King in terms of subject-matter, the plot and narrative, and even a recurring character (whose cameo I was not so sure about…but it turned out ok). And the result of familiarity mixed with 2018’s general sense of things (there’s an AIR of Trump in this novel, but not that much)…and the significant change of setting makes this is a solid book in general. It’s […]
Well, this was a book.
I’ve owned this book in hardcover since it was first published in 2006. Every once in a while over the last twelve years or so, I’ve looked at it and thought, oh I should read that, and then proceeded to not do that. This was in my college years, when I bought books a) Just because they were pretty, b) When I couldn’t afford them, and c) Indiscriminately, without doing any research about them. I had not read any Stephen King yet, at all, either, so yeah, let’s buy this […]
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