It took me forever to finish this one.

This is mostly due to the fact that it was my "lunchtime" book, and during this span of time I stopped going out to lunch every day.  Instead, days like today, I eat at my desk, saving money and time.

It's also because of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" which almost made me stop reading it.  I just couldn't ( Read more... )

I've said it before and I'll say it again.  It's all thanks to
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Haven't hit on any Harry Turtledove lately, have I?  Have I?  I DON'T KNOW!  LET ME CHECK...

Nope.  He had the one story in Armageddon and I lumped all of his Timeline-191 stories (from How Few Remain through the three Great War books through the three American Empire books through the three currently released Settling Accounts books) into one entry ( Read more... )

(Last post tonight, I promise!)

Realizing that I was nearly bereft of actual Lovecraft stories - I know I had a collection at one point, but it disappeared along with Confederacy of the Dead and a few other books - I kept meaning to buy new ones, but was never quite certain which ones to get.

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This is the sequel to Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

In the wake of the results of the first book, Dexter's having to take a little time away from his Dark Passenger, as Sergeant Doakes has been using more and more of his time to follow Dexter around.  Soon a horrific discovery is found, and it brings in elements of Doakes' past, and has repercussions for ( Read more... )

Before I'd read the books, on
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I've been a bit remiss lately what with all the hijinks going on around these parts lately - beautiful women, beautiful weather, eye searing blasts of intense energy - and, honestly, while I need to finish up some GamersInfo stuff, I was up entirely too late drinking entirely too much because I can't help but stress out, at times, about things that ( Read more... )

At one point while reading the second novel in this omnibus, Ragnar's Claw, I bemoaned the fact that it seems like Chaos is always the enemy in these books.  Sure, the Ultramarines Omnibus had the Tyranids in one part, but the great majority of that one, and pretty much the entirety of the Souldrinkers Omnibus and Eisenhorn featured Chaos as the ( Read more... )

For some reason I expect people to say something like "he's reviewing burned bread?!"

But I'm not.  Instead, I'm reviewing a collection of Charles Stross' short stories - some of which are a bit old.

Dated, in fact.

Not so engaging.

Particularly when you're used to his writing style being so cutting edge.

But I get ahead of my stuff.  As per usual with ( Read more... )

Here's one of the things about anthologies, at least to me, that I've come to realize.  I don't like just "random" anthologies of stories by random writers unless there's some kind of explanation to it.  A theme helps, of course, but I much prefer having the editors of the anthology write a few pages about why they chose what they did, what ( Read more... )