Abarat by Clive Barker (Abarat -- [bk. 1])
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by …
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dozens rated Firestarter: 2 stars
Firestarter by Stephen King
"Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge. The hair on his …
dozens reviewed House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in …
Review of 'House of Leaves' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
dozens rated William Faulkner, As I lay dying: 4 stars
dozens rated The Omnivore's Dilemma: 4 stars
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
What should we have for dinner? For omnivore's like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma: When you …
dozens rated Two classic volumes from Robert R. McCammon: 4 stars
dozens rated John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath: 4 stars
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into …
Review of "The Sound and the Fury (Everyman's Library Classics)" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I try not to shy away from books because they're "hard," but I've tried to read this one about four different times, starting in high school, and have just been unable to both comprehend and enjoy.
dozens reviewed Birth Of The Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom
Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people …
Review of 'Birth Of The Chess Queen' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
This book alternately irked and entertained me. There were interesting stories about the evolution of some regional "dialects" of the game, and I enjoyed the recounting of some folk lore in the game was a vehicle for romance and seduction.
The times in which the author droned on about role of the actual living, breathing queen, though, bored me almost to tears. In fact, it seems at times that there is more information about queens and powerful ladies in this book than there is about the game.
But then again, and I didn't know this before starting to read, but this is by the author of A History Of The Wife and A History Of The Breast, so a bit of feminism is to be expected after all.
The Two Towers : Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings / by J. R. R. Tolkien by J. R. R. Tolkien
In celebration of The Hobbit's fiftieth anniversary, the authoritative edition of its stirring sequel, The Lord of the Rings, is …
dozens reviewed Throwing the Elephant by Stanley Bing
What Would Machiavelli Do? and Throwing the Elephant. Fortune's Stanley Bing has written two very …
Review of 'Throwing the Elephant' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
10 year edit, 2017
Hey younger self! What'd this book do, insult your mother? Tone it down, man.
Original review, 2007
This book was rubbish and a waste of my time. The author was neither entertaining nor informative: he wrote nothing clever or insightful. I would recommend only to people I strongly dislike.
dozens rated From the corner of his eye: 2 stars
dozens rated The door to December: 2 stars
dozens rated By the light of the moon: 2 stars
By the light of the moon by Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as "America's most popular suspense novelist"(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most …
dozens rated The funhouse: 4 stars
The funhouse by Dean Koontz
Years after leaving the carnival, her hated first husband, and the child she could never love, Ellen has a new …