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Literature has taken various shapes during the last few years and has morphed brilliantly. Although excellent pieces of literary art can be traced through the ages, over the last years thought-provoking and reflective works have emerged and captured the attention of readers around the globe, changing the way people think.
2009 was another year full [...]
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Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
Broken Angels takes place in a future where the concept of “re-sleeving” your consciousness means that lifetimes stretch on for centuries, and bodies can be manufactured to accommodate any function. Kovacs has been around a long time – as an Envoy he was part of a particularly brutal special military [...]
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Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A pair of time travelers, Shel and Dave, travel to past eras looking for Shel's father.
MY REVIEW:
PROS: Skillful storytelling; engaging story; showcases cool uses of a time travel device.
CONS: The tendency of the characters to show advanced technology in past centuries undermines the respect they're supposed to [...]
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Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon
In this third installment of his Matthew Corbett series (after Speaks the Nightbird and The Queen of Bedlam), McCammon delivers a twisted tale of pure evil. In 1702 New York City, Matthew and his colleague Hudson Greathouse agree to take on the assignment of transporting evil mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from [...]
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Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon
To be published late 2009 by Subterranean Press.
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The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightbird and continued in The Queen of Bedlam, Mister [...]
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There is no shortage for the information and knowledge resources in this modern world. Among these resources, however only some of the resources are giving the correct information to people. In these, there is no better and perfect choice than books as they are maintaining their consistency in providing accurate information to their readers from [...]
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The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
With homage to Stoker from the modernizing the classic ship scene to Abraham and the Count, Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan provide a super vampire thriller in a current day setting. Ironically this is a throwback to the days when [...]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) by P.D. James
The Private Patient takes a while to get going, as P.D.James takes her time setting her stage — here essentially Cheverell Manor (“regarded as one of the loveliest Tudor manor houses in England”), a property where plastic surgeon Chandler-Powell treats some of his patients. There is not [...]
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Black Cathedral by L.H. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims
Six managerial types, on a week long course, disappear days after taking up residence in a manor house on a remote Scottish island. If this wasn’t bad enough, the helicopter (and pilot) assigned to pick them up disappears as well. In fact, the island has a history of [...]
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Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
If Bernard Cornwell was born to write one book, this is it. No other historical novelist has acquired such a mastery of the minutiae of warfare in centuries past. No one else could hope to take Shakespeare’s Henry V, strip it of its rhetoric and tell the unvarnished truth about the Battle [...]
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