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I have the blessing/curse of loving to read but being very picky about what I read. I really have trouble finding stuff I like. And once or twice a year, it seems, I get in a mood where I can't find anything to read and fall back on an old reliable - Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Like with...

What I found particularly interesting is that the new title picks up directly where Fleming left off, rather than doing like Gardner's and Benson's entries and having Bond stay around the same age through decades a la a comic book character. World's most famous spy, James Bond, back in book...

I recently read an excellent, excellent true crime book that I want to recommend. (I know it sounds like I'm gushing, but don't worry, I'm not related to the author nor do I own stock in the publisher. ;) ) The book is In Broad Daylight by Harry N. McLean. It tells the story of a rather...

As you can see above in my profile, I recently started Asimov's Nemesis. This is the second Asimov book I've started; a couple years ago I tried reading Nightfall, i.e. the novel he co-wrote with another fellow, not the short story that was the basis for the novel. I just couldn't get into it...

I haven't been on the board for a while but I just had to come back and ask this. Sometime back there was a thread asking when people have honestly been scared by something they read. (Actually maybe it wasn't on this board, but if not well why not start one here?) I ask because tonight...

This could be the Julian Lennon of the publishing world - at first everyone will like him cause of his dad's name, but eventually they may dislike him for the same reason. I hope not. Secret of horror writer's lineage broken PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Joe Hill knew it was only a matter of time...

The book I'm reading right now, Blood Farm by Sam Siciliano, has a rather interesting subtitle: An Iowa Gothic. Those are two words you don't see together very often. :confused: The book looks to be a fairly standard vampire novel. A guy drives his uncle's hearse to a remote farm in Iowa...

Being the horror enthusiast that I am, it isn't very often that I watch a horror movie that actually scares me. After a while, you just get conditioned to all of the little tricks, the rattles, the spooks that the filmmakers use to scare you - even if you don't want to, since being immune to the...

I got to talking with a guy on another forum about Stephen King's book On Writing, which I was actually about to go buy until this conversation. This guy recommended a book by Jack London instead. The point is this guy said "A lot of us think we can just sit down with pen and paper and write...

Hi folks. I've been registered on here a few months but haven't posted my intro until now... I'm Wisconsin born and raised, and despite my earlier dreams I've never lived anywhere else. But that's okay, not every bestselling book has to be set on the East Coast. ;) I'm a reader and an...

I know this may sound like blasphemy to most who enjoy horror fiction, but I've got to say it. I don't care that much for the work of H.P. Lovecraft. During the course of some reading I was doing today on Wikipedia I came across some entries referring to Lovecraft and how his work is so...

I've been a fan of SVU for a few years now, but watching this week's episode almost made me stop. Not because it was bad, but because its subject matter was disturbing. The plot revolved around a teenage boy who operated a website where pedophiles could pay to see him do things to himself, and...

I just finished Walter Greatshell's Xombies and was wondering if anyone else here has read it. I thought it started really strong but I didn't like the final third. That may just be because I prefer straightforward horror and this one ventures over into more sci-fi territory towards the end...

Two of my favorites, The Incredible Hulk and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., are having their first seasons released on DVD this summer. I've been waiting forever for The Hulk to come out; can't believe they waited this long. Some others I'd like to see on disc: Hawaii Five-O - Quite simply one...

Does anyone here know what's going on with the third printing of Brian Keene's The Rising? I ordered a copy of the book (most likely from the second printing) from an eBay merchant. However, it hasn't arrived and the seller is theorizing that the package got lost in the mail - so I may or...

I wanted to get some input on this before I go any further. How often do the rest of you give up on a book? I have a tendency to start reading and get bored with the book very fast, and then mope as to whether or not to continue it. At first I thought maybe I had ADD, but a professional I saw...