Well, that was kind of a let-down. After finding Bimbos of the Death Sun, the first volume in this two-book set, offensive and terrible, the second part was just kind of…blah. Zombies of the Gene Pool finds the professorial couple of the first book, Jay and Marion, at the scene of another mysterious death in a hotel. This time, they’re there for a reunion of science fiction authors and the unearthing of a time capsule. An unexpected guest shows up, gets half a page of […]
A highly enjoyable holiday from hell
I thoroughly enjoyed Straub’s debut novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and feel we should gloss over the embarrassingly long time it took me to clock that she is daughter of Peter Straub. So when The Vacationers came along and seemed to be setting itself up to be everything Seating Arrangements should have been but wasn’t, I was sold. The blurb tells you it’s “an irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca” […]
Goosebumps, Adult Goosebumps (Stephen King), and Other Assorted Mediocrity
#137: Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown: 2 stars. #138: Blockade Billy by Stephen King: 1 star. #139-141: Let’s Get Invisible, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, and Say Cheese and Die by R.L. Stine: 1 star each. #142-3: Phantom of the Auditorium and The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine: 1 star each. #144: The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz: 2 stars.
Quadruple Rainbow
#132-6: Attachments, Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, and Landline by Rainbow Rowell: 5 stars each.
Surprise, bitch. I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me.
#129: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe: 4 stars. #130: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie : 2 stars. #131: Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O’Brien: 5 stars.
I did not like The Red Book. I didn’t like the parents who tolerated their preteen sons watching hardcore pornography at the family dinner table. I hated the woman who had children in spite of her husband’s wishes. I hated her deadbeat husband who ignored his wife and children. I despised the woman who came to the conclusion that her emotional and physical absence during her mother’s slow, painful death from cancer justified her partner’s fling with a young woman. I loathed the woman who […]
's CBR6 Review No:18 ·
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Tags: #CBR6, Deborah Kopaken Cogan, doombiscuits, Fiction ·
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