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mark monday rated a book 2 of 5 stars
When True Night Falls by C.S. Friedman
mark monday rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
by Kami Garcia (Goodreads Author)
read in August, 2010
MOVIE UPDATE

so i just watched the movie adaptation last night and i liked it! certainly superior to the book, and way better than the Twilight adaptations. i wonder why the movie was so unpopular? it was cute, the effects were good, the sets for the...more
mark monday rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Mountains Of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
i'm getting old - i'm 42! that is definitely old to a lot of people. happily, i've always felt i was born old so getting older doesn't really bother me. but what does bother me is the idea that in a couple decades my viewpoint may have become so infl...more
mark monday rated a book 1 of 5 stars
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
Crooked Little Vein
by Warren Ellis (Goodreads Author)
read in June, 2013
and shit and shitting and porn and godzilla and bukkake and godzilla bukkake and saline-injected testicles and shit and rats and dirt and grubby porn theatres and shit and tantric ostrich sex and date rape drugs and tantric ostrich sex via date rape...more
mark monday marked as unread-forever
A Throne of Bones by Vox Day
read the racist screed that this scumbag spewed out in response to a recent Guest of Honor speech made by non-white author N.K. Jemisin at Continuum in Australia:

"Jemisin has it wrong; it is not that I, and others, do not view her as human, (although...more
mark monday rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Martyrs and Monsters by Robert Dunbar
Martyrs and Monsters
by Robert Dunbar (Goodreads Author)
in this excellent collection of short stories, Dunbar mines both horror tropes and, more interestingly, the inevitable degradation of self within a varied range of vividly depicted and toxic closed circles. the breadth of these stories - from tenemen...more
mark monday rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Shibumi by Trevanian
Shibumi
by Trevanian
read in June, 2013
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5! Senses Working Overtime!

SEE the assassin in his youth! see him as a child in war-torn Shanghai, as a young Go-Master in Japan, as a dutiful son and as a tortured prisoner, as an expert caver in Basque Spain, as an equally expert St...more
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mark monday rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
fairly enjoyable overall and the period details are particularly fascinating. or maybe i just have a thing for the specific era on display. unfortunately something left me cold about this novel. perhaps it was the lack of old-fashioned adventure in w...more
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