I've had such a streak of good books lately. Usually I don't love, love, love everything I read, but...

You know what? Just read this.

( Watch as I rave. )

It's official: Braunbeck has a new fan. I loved this book! This is something I don't usually say about horror stories, so take that to mean that the writing was especially good in this one ( Read more... )

This was a re-read, but you wouldn't have known it by looking at the contents of my brain, because after about fifteen years, I hardly remembered anything about the book. I knew it was something about Byron, Shelley, Keats, a woman with multiple personalities, and the most unusual spin on the vampire concept that I'd ever seen, but none of the ( Read more... )

Okay, understand that I'm not attempting to write a real book report that says anything deep about what I've read, eh? Because I know what that looks like, and this is not it.

The individual books in this trilogy are called Hammered, Scardown, and Worldwired. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone who likes science fiction. They have cool ( Read more... )

It seems that this is a whole summer about horror fiction for me, so when I saw How to Write Horror Fiction at the library, I acted as if I needed more books to read, and borrowed it. The book is only 122 pages long, before the appendix and index, and the reading went quickly. IMO, this book is a great one for beginning writers. It covers the ( Read more... )

This is a hard book to write about. It's non-fiction, subtitled "Horror as a way of life;" it's about horror films and books, Braunbeck's own life, and writing, pretty much in that order. I have honestly not read many accounts of a person having more terrible, tragic things happen to him, throughout a lifetime, than the one written here. Braunbeck ( Read more... )

*Obligatory "no spoilers" notation*

All I'm going to say about the story is that I'm satisfied. :)

ETA: spoilers in comments, beware!

This was my treat book between "homework" books, and may I please squee? And hope ever to write something as complicated and funny and full of Awesome as the Company novels? This was the last one, and I think I'm more sad about this series ending than that other series that just ended, but to be part of the cultural phenomenon I will next read That ( Read more... )

I'll start with the good news: this book had a great premise. Here's a line from the back cover about the main character, Damara, who "has the ability to make other people's dreams, fears, and fantasies all too real." That idea has a lot of potential. I would have loved to have read a fantasy novel about this character, but Pandora Drive is ( Read more... )

(I've actually read a couple of other books since mid-May, but they were two-thirds of a trilogy, and I'm going to post about all three after I read the third ( Read more... )