Category Archives: Novel

24
Feb

Page 170 of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot

Continuing A clear Romans-like trajectory has been revealed (from the secret thoughts of a priest, no less).  The banality and universality of small evil will be “solved” by the appearance of Real and Pure Evil which can be dealt with … Continue reading →

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23
Feb

So far, reading Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot

I’m surprised I’ve never heard King compared to Ray Bradbury It is refreshing to see a more Bram Stoker approach (so far) then the “vampires as enemy bike gang” approach which I have loved since watching The Lost Boys and … Continue reading →

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26
Mar

The Telegraph posts an excellent review of and introduction to the great writer of “hard boiled” detective fiction,” Raymond Chandler

When Raymond Chandler began to write for pulp magazines in the Thirties, he planned from the first to smuggle something like literature into them. Most of these magazines hooked their readers with a mixture of sex and violence – “they … Continue reading →

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17
May

100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson

I doubt there is much need for me to describe this book.  If you like Stephen King or Dean Koontz, if you like C. S. Lewis (especially The Magician’s Nephew), if you like Tim Powers or James Blaylock (and you really … Continue reading →

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27
Mar

Awakening (#1 of Chasing Yesterday)

I can’t vouch for all of the writer’s other series–just in case anyone searches Amazon or uses some other search engine (I’ve decided to stop using Google as a verb). I’m also hoping the next two books in the trilogy … Continue reading →

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