Upon a recommendation from Mr. Scott Mosier (not directly, obviously), I decided to embrace the culture of Sweden and pick up Stieg Larsson’s blockbuster, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Before this book, my three biggest exposures to Sweden were Mats Sundin, the Swedish Chef from The Muppets and Drew Barrymore’s character from Wayne’s World…
A navy supply ship is downed in the Persian Gulf and members of Britain’s Covert Operations and Surveillance Team, or C.O.A.S.T for short, are sent to retrieve the four thermonuclear warheads it had been carrying. However, when they’re ambushed, questions arise about a possible mole in the organization. When the investigation leads them to a…
School shootings. When events like this happen, you can’t turn a blind eye to it. Why? Because it’s everywhere. It’s unavoidable. I believe in almost all school shootings (and I’m no expert, folks), the shooter rarely survives the ordeal – so, we’re left with the question: why did so-and-so commit these atrocities? Unfortunately, investigative reporters…
As you all know, I reviewed the first Dark Tower entry, The Gunslinger, in a favorable light. After I read the final page – I immediately wanted more. The problem was, I had a stack of books to read and no where within was the sequel. 3 books later, I cracked open “The Drawing Of…
I don’t really know what to think of this book. I’ll try to form some sort of..review.I really dreaded writing this because I wasn’t really sure how to put my thoughts on this into a review. Whenever I feel negative or just..weird..about a book, the review seems a lot harder to do than when I…
The setting moves to sleazy 1970s Hollywood where Jo is living the life of a rich recluse. As we’ve grown to know, Josephine is never far from controversy and when a B-list actor and his butchered friend nearly fall into her lap, Jo must try to avoid all the violence that they inadvertently bring with…
Stephen King’s Wizard and Glass Picking up where The Wastelands left off, the Wizard and Glass takes us back to the ka-tet’s excruciating marathon riddle session with Blaine the Mono. Shortly thereafter, Eddie, Suzannah and Jake are told a crucial story of Roland’s youth during his formative years as a young gunslinger.This was a really…
Will Christopher Baer’s Penny Dreadful As much as I really liked Kiss Me, Judas, I loved Penny Dreadful that much more. To steal an overused cliché, this book was a “tour de force” (which I’m not really even sure what that means other than perhaps, tour of force?). Either way, overused descriptions aside, this book is in a…
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