I am a huge fan of Nick Harkaway – all of his novels have a flow and a magic to them that’s difficult to quantify, but once you start you can’t put it down. One is never quite sure where it’s all going, but it’s such a good read, you figure it will all sort itself out at the end. Prior to starting Tigerman I was reading another book – which I will review in another post – but suffice it to say that […]
Without the horribleness, she’s just boring. I think I understand insult comics now.
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.