![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Audio: Stephen Briggs is the best person for the Discworld novels - his wonderful and distinct accents for every single character means you can follow the story very easily because you immediately know who is speaking. This is Vimes at his best and is the very definition of why he is the perfect person to head the City's Watch - justice is what matters, not politics, and he will follow a case to the ends of the Earth to solve it, with the help of his ever loyal team. In typical Vimes fashion, he charges through the political quagmire like a bull in a china shop and many key players watch his progress with interest, either subtly helping his efforts or outright trying to sabotage him. Vimes must sort through a mountain of facts and evidence, even reconstructing the events of the original battle itself to find answers, and the pieces falling into place through the story results in one of the most compelling mystery books I've ever read period. A complex murder mystery tied to an ancient and world-changing battle that still causes chaos today. This is a somewhat more serious book than his usual style and it works wonderfully. The Night's Watch storyline literally spans decades and at this point, the story has been filled out so richly that the characters are old friends and all of that history just adds so much to this book. ![]()
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He was the spawn of nightmares, after all and he had been toughened by a life of terror.ĭuring the afternoon, napping in his simple cell, he dreamed that a surgeon opened his abdomen to insert a mysterious, squirming mass. 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Billingsley (Well Wished) imagines a fascinating subterranean world and infuses a strong feminist theme into this poetically wrought tale featuring a 15-year-old orphan. ![]() ![]() The rather fine body belonging to Special Agent John Starkweather, Strategic Paranormal Entity Control, aka SPECTR. So not alone, but also without the other body he’d expected to find. Oh sure, you’re the 5,000 year old demon-eating vampire, but I’m the one who’s strange. " You are sometimes very strange," Gray observed. The temporary roommate in his head had become permanent. He’d passed up the last chance to be rid of Gray, the entity who’d accidentally possessed him exactly forty-one days ago. Alone wasn’t something he’d ever be again. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Ĭaleb opened his eyes and found himself alone in bed. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() Summoner of Storms (SPECTR #6) © 2014 Jordan L. ![]() ![]() ![]() And she pronounces their last name, Salvatore, as 'Salvatoray'. She comes across as a whiny stuck up tween who over-dramatizes every sentence. However, if you LISTEN to this, none of that will come through. The actual writing, though, yes it is a YA novel, is very mature. ![]() You have to read/listen with an open mind. Please don't go into this expecting them to feel the same. So fans of the show may be extremely disappointed. Jeremy doesn't exist and is a 5 year old sister, instead. For one thing, Elena is blonde, Bonnie is a fair skinned red-headed and Meredith Fell is a forth friend. Other than that, the people and places contrast majorly. Really, you almost can't compare the two save for some of the names and the fact that Elena' s caught between the brothers. As far as TVD, the show is much different than the books. Not only did it not follow the written narrative, but the characters and storyline they chose to go with did nothing to make up for it. So when I first heard they were coming out with a TV show for both, I had major reserves. Twenty years later I still have copies with the original cover art. These, together with The Secret Circle followed with the Night World series made up half of my 'must keep' books. I originally read this series in the mid-nineties after it first came out. ![]() ![]() Mason finds a web of greed and treachery among the heirs, and has to put up with a most repulsive attorney who represents some of them. What is at stake in this one isn’t just whether a cat can stay in a house, there’s more: a million dollars in cash and some diamonds. I get a kick out of playing a no-limit game.” ![]() All that really counts is a man’s ability to live, to get the most out of it as he goes through it. Mason’s reply is “A man only has a lease on life. On a whim, Perry Mason takes the case, against the advice of his assistant and his secretary, Della Street. But Laxter’s grandson Sam says the deal doesn’t include the caretaker’s cat. ![]() In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live for life. This, the seventh of Gardner’s Perry Mason novels, has possibly the most convoluted plot of the books in the series so far. ![]() The 42nd in my series of Forgotten Books. ![]() By Erle Stanley Gardner, © 1935, edition read: Pocket Books, 1962 paperback – Perry Mason # 7 ![]() ![]() Hard Times is the perfect introduction to Terkel's work for new readers, as well as a beautiful new addition to any Terkel library. Interspersed throughout the text of Hard Times, these breathtaking photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Jack Delano, and others expand the human scope of the voices captured in the book, adding a new dimension to Terkel's incomparable volume. Now, in a handsome new illustrated edition, a selection of Studs's unforgettable interviews are complemented by images from another rich documentary trove of the Depression experience: Farm Security Administration photographs from the Library of Congress. With his trademark grace and compassion, Terkel evokes a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were destitute: politicians, businessmen, artists and writers, racketeers, speakeasy operators, strikers, impoverished farmers, people who were just kids, and those who remember losing a fortune. ![]() ![]() First published in 1970, Studs Terkel's bestselling Hard Times has been called "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit" (Saturday Review) and "an invaluable record" (The New York Times). ![]() ![]() “Red Sorghum is so unlike any other piece of contemporary Chinese literature that, were it not so clearly set in China, one might imagine it to be a product of another place and time. . . . With this work Mo Yan has helped his country find a new and powerfully convincing literary voice.” Red Sorghum fixes our attention on a series of exquisite images . . . he paints his pictures of a world in chaos, where every day is a struggle to preserve life, if not honor, and there is no safety even in death.” I am convinced this book will successfully leap over the international boundaries that many translated works face. . . . This is an important work from an important writer.” ![]() It is unlike anything I’ve read coming out of China in past or recent times. His imagery is astounding, sensual and visceral. ![]() “Having read Red Sorghum, I believe Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature. This historical tale has a remarkable sense of immediacy and an impressive scope.” “ style is vibrant, alternating between lyrical passages and an oddly conversational tone. “Red Sorghum creates the backdrop for mythic heroism and primitivist vitality through the exotically portrayed setting of Shandong’s lush sorghum fields.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once you're aloft, that's when you discover there's no parachute, no eject button, and the pilot makes Murdock from The A-Team look like the poster child for mental fitness. Laymon's writing is what it is, aspiring to no literary pretension, often taking off like a Navy fighter jet catapulted off a carrier over open water and never slowing down. He brings the creeps, he brings the humor, he brings the bumbling immaturity of the direct-to-video B-grade horror film to life in his prose, and he does so without apology or expectation that you'll treat it as anything less than what it is. What's more, if you're a Laymon fan, then no other writer comes close to what he offers. People can argue the merits of Barker, Campbell, Herbert, and Simmons, some of the most literary horror authors the genre has birthed, until the cows come home, but Laymon brooks no debate - he was the literal incarnation of the guy you either love to death or you cannot stand, and I fall unashamedly in the first camp. Laymon's been a polarizing force in the world of horror since the publication of this book in 1980. ![]() |