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BADASS HORROR 8 reviews
Gerard Brennan, Garry Kilworth, ...
Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2006
Delicious Horror
+ Awesome!!!
+ Badass Horror
+ Another solid anthology from Dybbuk Press
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Golem 100 5 reviews
Alfred Bester
Simon & Schuster, 1980
Senseeing and Seesensing
+ Good, but too stylistic for the sake of it..
+ Dark, twisted foray into the world of the subconcious
This old book doesn't quite have the immortal greatness of Bester's two masterpieces, The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man. Those two classics deserve to be rediscovered due to their sheer relentless weirdness and Bester's very strange and vivid imagination. After one has digested those ...
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ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist ... 3 reviews
Omnidawn Publishing, 2006
Mayra Calvani - The Bloomsbury Review
+ Tales of weirdness and wonder
In the United States, most published fiction falls under two categories: "genre fiction" and "literary fiction."
According to Ken Keegan, editor at Omnidawn Publishing, genre fiction, which accounts for about 90% of all fiction published, is often defined as "escapist," usually follows a ...
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Wiseguy113 reviews
Nicholas Pileggi
Pocket, 1990
Fantastic Book About the life of Henry Hill
+ Entertaining read made into a great film
+ Just as good or almost better than the movie
+ A True Look at the 'Mob'
+ MOB (Many Overdressed Bums)
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Complete English Poems: Everyman's Library (Everyman's Classics)1 review
John Milton
Everyman Paperbacks, 1991
A Milton biographer's edition of Milton's poems
I once said in another review that the number of editions of Milton's poetry could make choosing which one to purchase a tedious process. Gordon Campbell, who revised William Riley Parker's beautifully written biography of Milton, introduces the poems of this Everyman edition with a nice essay ...
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The Fall of Never 7 reviews
Ronald, Damien Malfi
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2004
Fall of Never Highly Recommended
+ Modern gothic-style horror by talented new writer
+ A highly original modern gothic
+ loved it immensely
+ Great book by a first time novelist
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The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring33 reviews
Larry Niven
Del Rey, 2003
Fairness all around, average Niven
Better than expected, judging from the cover. Having read most of Niven's sci-fi novels, I expect a huge idea to be brought out within the pages followed by a cast of so-so characters. Nevertheless, Niven follows in his own footsteps to create Integral Trees. A key part of this novel is the ...
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Little Scarlet (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)51 reviews
Walter Mosley
Hachette Audio, 2004
Easy Rawlins During the Watts Riots
+ A portrayal of both inner and outer torment
+ Little Scarlet
+ He can do no wrong..
+ Series' Best
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court51 reviews
Alison Weir
Ballantine Books, 2002
Henry lives again
+ Impressive
+ Quintessential Alison Weir - detailed yet an interesting read
+ Something Different
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Brick175 reviews
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emilie De Ravin
Universal Studios, 2006
only my fav movie
+ Hard-Boiled High School
what can i say its my fav movie i can watch it 100 times. it has the feel of an inde film with the art style and more
moose
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Empires - The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance31 reviews
Ross King, Mario Biagioli
PBS Paramount, 2005
EXCELLENT
+ ...from ArtsyFartsy News, November 2008
+ Beautiful
+ "PBS Scores Again!"
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The Bad Popes (Sutton History Classics)12 reviews
Russell Chamberlin
Sutton Publishing, 2003
The "dark side" of the Papacy
+ How did sheep survive among such wolves?
+ Nothing spiritual about the papacy
+ Enjoyable, Engrossing and Informative
+ "We cannot serve God & Mammon at the same time"---de' Mussi
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Lunar Park124 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis
Random House Audio, 2005
Ellis delivers again
+ Lunar Park - Ellis Doesn't Disappoint
+ Good, but not as good as it could be
+ Good deal!
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Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas3 reviews
Annette Aronowicz
Indiana University Press, 1994
Brings a fresh approach to both Talmud study and Philosophy
+ When philosophy meets Talmud
+ A Philosopher Reads The Talmud
This is the book that's noted for the famous quote about how we might be able to forgive some Nazis but never Heidigger. And while that's a great line, it's even more profound in the context of a story about a rabbi that didn't begin teaching again for the last late student - a seemingly inocuous ...
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The Nature of Monsters5 reviews
Ronald Damien Malfi
5 Story Walkup, 2006
Beautiful, Unsettling, Important ...
+ An amazing departure
+ Best New Fiction I Have Read in a While
+ A Genuine Good Read
+ "The Nature of Malfi"
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Hustle & Flow (Widescreen Edition)117 reviews
Terrence Howard, Ludacris
Paramount, 2006
Hustle&Flow
+ Hustle & Flow
+ Great movie, a must have for anyone interested in hip-hop culture
+ Hustle and Flow
+ Worth Watching
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Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (Ackroyd's Brief Lives (Audio))3 reviews
Peter Ackroyd
Tantor Media, 2005
A wonderfully concise biography...
+ A great thing in a little package
+ Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
... and history of the late 14th century. Ackroyd is more than just an excellent writer and distiller of information. He is clearly well-versed in the significance of Chaucer's writings and impact upon English literature. I am one who greatly appreciates the fact that many lives can be elegantly ...
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Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre6 reviews
Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2005
I edited it.
+ A BIZARRE BUT THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE ANTHOLOGY
+ Stories of the strange and unusual
+ No cannibalism, but lots of great stories
+ An Admirable Effort from the New Master of the Grotesque
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Bank Shot12 reviews
Donald E. Westlake
Simon & Schuster, 1972
Wonderful Comic Crime Novel
+ Take a Shot, Pick Up a Westlake Novel, You Won't Be Disappointed!
+ Fantastic Follow Up
+ Stealing a Bank - Everyone's Dream
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Lucrezia Borgia (Phoenix Press)4 reviews
Maria Bellonci
Phoenix Press, 2003
The Portrait Tells the Story
+ An Italian Masterpiece
+ kind sweet woman trap family from hell!
There are few portraits as sharply drawn as that depicting (or considered to depict) Lucretia Borgia: smart, beautiful, edgy and dangerous. The illegitimate daughter of Roderigo Borgia, who reigned as the most notorious Spaniard of the High Renaissance, Pope Alexander VI, she spent her most adult ...
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