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So many people have written about this book. There is no need to rehash things.
such is the case with books in print for 20 years and still gaining new fiends in cult reading circles.
This reading was still great, but especially more so as the copy i r...moreSo many people have written about this book. There is no need to rehash things.
such is the case with books in print for 20 years and still gaining new fiends in cult reading circles.
This reading was still great, but especially more so as the copy i read had authors notes totaling near twenty five pages. Neil and Terry talking about the writing process they went through.
Quick synopsis: Satan’s child is born into the world and inserted into the wrong family. What results is the ultimate experiment in nature vs nurture. When the end times come, will the son of the devil follow the evil in his genetics, or the standard well rounded human upbringing his mistaken life gave him.
In the book are devils, angels, witches, witch hunters, politicians, four horsemen of the apocalypse, nuns, satanists, paint ballers, soothsayers, aliens, etc.
Laugh out loud funny, but because of the varied styles in the dual authors, may not be easy for all readers to get into. Give it fifty pages before you decide though, would hate if you gave up too early, it would be a damn shame.
People who wrote more in depth and are worth reading:
Bonnie over at Blogcritic has a great POV.
“Good Omens uses the pre-Apocalyptic circumstances to explore the idea of what it means to be good, evil and, most of all, human.”
Review Link… http://gryffindorkk.tumblr.com/post/2153...
Gryffindorkk/EighteenDown -
“a proof of how versatile and flexible both authors can be. The two just fed off into each others’ abilities that the synergy between them had produced a novel of this high caliber”
Review Link… http://blogcritics.org/books/article/boo...
Side note - Perfumes based around the Good Omens Characters and places.
These sound stinking amazing. proceeds go to good causes, authors are down for the use of the names and idea.. all around awesomeness.
http://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/goodom...
The Buggre Alle this Bible and Famine sound amazing…
-- FNORDinc
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Zombies are everywhere these days. They show up in movies, books, standard TV, on the t-shirts of infants.. They have become pervasive in all aspects of our global social-cultural circles.
It is strange because back when I was in school, Zombies were ...moreZombies are everywhere these days. They show up in movies, books, standard TV, on the t-shirts of infants.. They have become pervasive in all aspects of our global social-cultural circles.
It is strange because back when I was in school, Zombies were still a sub-culture. I do not know if this is purely an artifact of the internet culture, or if people have finally become desensitized to a point where flash mobs of gore covered faux-corpses is just a norm; Where a life with out zombie-fear, zombie escape plans, and everyone trying to top each other with anti-zombie paraphernalia would be passe.
Like Death Troopers before it, Night of the Living Trekkies (NotLT) is a geek smorgasbord. NotLT is exactly how it sounds. A novel of “Unofficial, Unimaginable, Unbelievable” proportions. I have to admit, I like living in a world where books like this can exist. Where geeks, instead of being avoided while reading them, can be approached by people asking if it is worth reading and whether the red shirts die first.
To appease people like the asian man on the train who stared at me for fifteen minutes before asking a stranger questions.. Seriously.. The title alone should have gotten you to pick this up and read it. If not the title, then perhaps the awesome art on the cover. I was very entertained by all of these things. Very very entertained…
Quick summing up: In Texas, the largest Gulf region trek convention is just ramping up for the year. Folks are signing into their rooms, prepping for the feasting on Klingon blood worms, and giant “to-scale” cake models of alien warships. Combat Veteran (and hotel assistant manager) Jim is being harrassed by his pesky spidey sense though. Something is not right, the expected capacity of the hotel is not being met, people keep calling in sick, some kid is annoying guests with a play ray gun, and a mime (of all things) just started biting the security personnel… Something is going down, but he cannot seem to put his finger on it. Please note the status of “Combat Veteran”.
If that doesn’t do it for you though, take my word that if you get a kick out of internet photoshops of Picard juggling spoons, making people angry by talking about Kirk and Spock kissing, or want a “Wreath of Khan” for xmas next year, then you are gonna love this.
Oh yeah, Princess Leia makes an appearance :)
Seeing this come from Quirk, was a treat. I am tried of all the rewriting of classic novels to add zombies, demons, vampires etc into them. Quirk publishing has played that out and annoyed me to the point of wanting to scream.. They turned novelty into tripe.. Congrats on that. However, having a cross cultural mashup instead of relying on dead authors and some tired wit was great. – Kudos to Kevin Anderson and Sam Stall.. Great work here guys.
-- FNORDinc
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The Ice Dragon is a nice companion story to the standard Song of Ice and Fire world. First published as a short story in a compendium titled Dragons of Light, this 1980′s tale was given a new treatment in the 2006 Tor rerelease.
Featuring illustration...moreThe Ice Dragon is a nice companion story to the standard Song of Ice and Fire world. First published as a short story in a compendium titled Dragons of Light, this 1980′s tale was given a new treatment in the 2006 Tor rerelease.
Featuring illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert, The Ice Dragon is the story of a young girl born in the winter of the cold north. She is emotionless and awkward. Her skin is as cold as her personality. She is very reminiscent of a wight from the core series, but alive and obviously human. She is frequently and secretly visited by an ice dragon, whose breath can freeze and kill in seconds, and who cannot be tamed or touched by humans.. Except for her.
Martin fans should take thirty minutes out to read this. It occurs in the years before the ice and fire series, and there is no mention of the ruling families or even of a wall to the north.. So how far in the past I couldn’t say, but far enough that there are armies of dragon riders in the war.
I would be curious after reading this how the wights fit in, are all of them truly undead or are they (similar to cold hands) something else, perhaps joyless emotionless humans like the girl in this tale.
I digress into theory though. This was excellent. Good for adults or children alike.
--FNORDinc
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"i broke into your house and stole it from your refrigerator.. went through your underwear drawer too. i dig the striped boxer briefs..."
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Mykle Hansen lives in Portland Oregon and I am pretty sure he has live feeds of the max trains which he monitors avidly for footage of people reading his books on mass transit. This is where I read the majority of this book and it was the most uncomf...moreMykle Hansen lives in Portland Oregon and I am pretty sure he has live feeds of the max trains which he monitors avidly for footage of people reading his books on mass transit. This is where I read the majority of this book and it was the most uncomfortable experience I have had in years. If he doesn’t have such a feed, he should chat with TriMet and work something out…
I would welcome a chance to interview him and dig into the crackpot lounge of his brain for cigarette butts.
I loved this book, and as my introduction to the splatterpunk genre, I do not think that I could have lucked out better. If you read the below summaries and find even vacant humor, you should check this book out. Not even vacant humor?… leave this one alone. The exclusion to this logic would be every IT admin in the world, as they should read this regardless of their opinion. Monster Cocks will make them chortle between sessions of slack jaw amazement.
‘Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere’ is broken out into three novelettes (the cover says novels), ordered as follows:
MONSTER COCKS: This is the tale of a man who finally succumbs to the spam advertising in his email box. In an effort to increase his penis size, and by proxy impress the woman he obsesses over, a man buys every penis enlargement gimmick on the market and then takes it all at once. Things fail to go as planned when his penis begins to take control of daily life.. and grows it’s own eyes..
Every chapter has a big penis drawing as the header. I found this to be both awesome and embarrassing. It all depended on if someone on the train was looking over my shoulder. In some cases it made people give me more room, allowing for more comfortable transit on the max. This chapter is a space maker as people give you room, unsure what kind of person would be reading it.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF AGNES CUDDLEBOTTOM: Scientists learn how to fold space allowing for matter to be shrunk to the nth degree. The only problem is that organic matter tends to explode once it reaches a certain point unless it is encased in like material. Tested on an 80 year old drug addicted prostitute, scientists learn that by shrinking the material and having it reside in the anus of a comatose whore, the explosions can be avoided. This is a journalistic interview piece with all the people who explored the uncharted territory of Agnes Cuddlebottom’s anus prior to the terrible catastrophe that the world never saw coming.
Every chapter has a big pair of ass cheeks. This was less troublesome on the train as when squinting, it would appear like a drawing of a peach.
CRAZY SHITTING PLANET: In a world drowning in the trash and fecal matter of a floating sky paradise, what is a boy to do with his days? Living every day ingesting trash and plastic, allowing the organisms in his body to assist in turning garbage to nutrients. When a boy and his best friend are caught in a tidal wave of liquid shit, they must struggle to survive and find a way to coexist with the ins and outs of day to day, floating in an ocean of poo on a very strange life raft… Oh yeah, there are pirates there too.
Every Chapter was headed with a steaming drawing of curly-que poo. This one was hard on the train. One particular day, a woman was standing over me while the train broke down. After forty minutes of her watching me turn pages, when we were finally moving again she would only make huffing noises at me and feign interest in the ceiling. Later someone else stopped me before departing the train. From 30 feet away, they saw the title and cover and had to.. HAD TO know what in the good goddamn I was reading and laughing over. The people sitting near this person were not as interested in the description I shared.
That’s it, go buy it if you want it. Then come back here and tell me what you thought of Lassie’s adventures.. I am interested in your opinions :)
-FNORDinc
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Already Gone
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John Rector (Goodreads Author)
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John Rector has brought a very strong novel to the table and put it down in front of you. You should be picking up what he is putting down.
Before picking up this novel, grab an industrial fan and place it in front of you facing away. When the noveliz...moreJohn Rector has brought a very strong novel to the table and put it down in front of you. You should be picking up what he is putting down.
Before picking up this novel, grab an industrial fan and place it in front of you facing away. When the novelized shit hits it, you will minimize the blow-back you experience.
Within five pages of the opening, the ring finger of Jake Reese has been forcibly removed by a pressure instrument that is not intended to be used for surgery. Bolt cutters, normally tasked to leveraging solid metal into separate pieces, had no trouble going through the bone and flesh of Jake’s finger. Jake goes home to his wife, with his wallet intact, and his pride scuffed, and in a terrible amount of confused pain. What the heck just happened, why was it “Nothing personal” as the attacker stated while walking away.
Rector’s “Already Gone” just gets better from there. I will not summarize anything further, in fear I could introduce spoilers.
What I can advise is that I was kept rabidly interested, a captive audience from cover to cover. Mystery/Thrillers of this kind have a high risk of coming off as heavy handed; they risk a big opening and poor closing; they risk formulaic story lines. This book has surpassed all the risk and achieved all of the reward that a hard hitting story aspires to. It is solid beginning to end.
I doubt that this book will become a best seller immediately, heck, there are so many books on the market that it could never achieve this status. I have high hopes though and I believe this is going to be a sleeper hit. Get in on the ground floor and read it early. Ensure that you are one of the cool people on the cutting edge of excellent fiction. After all, reading is a popularity game, right? You want to be cool…
Highly suggested!
-- FNORDinc.com
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Dove Season
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Johnny Shaw (Goodreads Author)
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In the first of (and hopefully a grip of) the “Jimmy Veeder Fiasco’s”, Jimmy is called back to his home town when his father announces he has terminal cancer and no further options. He travels back to the 100+ degree heat to spend time with “Pop” and...moreIn the first of (and hopefully a grip of) the “Jimmy Veeder Fiasco’s”, Jimmy is called back to his home town when his father announces he has terminal cancer and no further options. He travels back to the 100+ degree heat to spend time with “Pop” and help get things in order.
Jimmy has been away from the Imperial Valley of California over a decade. He went to college, traveled the world, and planned no further into the future than a week. He was generically content with his life, even if he was not what people would call happy. It doesn’t matter though. Desert folk can move to a city, travel the world , or settle down with a chica up north, but will always have the desert inside them.
Jimmy finds out very quickly that nothing has changed since he left El Centro and the Imperial area. The border is still malleable, Mexicali is still someplace that should cause a grown man to stay out of the shadows, and even though he thought he left his life behind, it was waiting or him when he came back.
As described on the back of the book, things get a bit upside down when Pop asks Jimmy to locate him a Mexicali prostitute by the name of Yolanda. Respecting his privacy on the issue, Veeder does not ask questions. Instead he enlists the help of long time friend Bobby to head south of the boarder and track down Yolanda.. If a dying man wants a prostitute found, you find her, regardless of the specifics… Regardless of the lengths a person must go to or the consequences of ones actions…
Johnny Shaw’s title for this book is fantastically metaphoric. Dove Season is the time of year when small game hunters break out the guns en-masse and kill the universally recognized “bird of peace” by the tens of thousands. Peace is sometimes more like a flying rodent than an innocent (and often naive) ideal. This novel chronicles Veeder’s own “Dove Season” as he re-immerses in desert life and puts the hurt on his inner peace (and a few assholes) for the betterment of himself and everyone he knows.
People who enjoy excellent fight scenes, a reasonable amount of manly introspection, and booze should check this out. It is like being sucker punched in the tentative tequila-queasy stomach while you sit on the back porch having one of those alcohol driven “honest talks” with a best friend.
-- FNORDinc.com
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i got this book for free.. the ftc douche-bags say i am supposed o point this out.(less)
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Published in the US as ‘Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir’, I apparently bought a UK import version with an alternate title/cover.
The only way to properly talk about this memoir is to begin by paraphrasing Mustaine’s book regarding the stuff that everyo...morePublished in the US as ‘Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir’, I apparently bought a UK import version with an alternate title/cover.
The only way to properly talk about this memoir is to begin by paraphrasing Mustaine’s book regarding the stuff that everyone expects:
“I was in Metallica until they kicked me out. I am so sad and bitter. I started a new band, Megadeth, which is pretty kick ass and is a metal force to be recognized. Twelve stepping is good so long as you are not to drunk to walk. Even through all my success, I continue to whine about Metallica until I have annoyed even myself…Oh look, there’s Jesus! What’s he doing here? I should ask him if he wants to jam with me..”
Dave Mustaine, druggie fist-fighting front-man for metal band Megadeth. Self-titled “Mustaine” covered his mid-teen years to current, his descent into alcoholism and drug abuse, greater than ten stints in various rehab facilities. It doesn’t focus solely on the negative, instead calling out the many positive things his career has brought forth.
My previous summary does not do true justice to the autobiography. Mustaine brings the book from a solidly honest perspective. Nothing is more evident than his desire to level with fans, and critics alike in a straightforward and honest conversation.
His memoir was actually pretty interesting to read. The repetitive nature of his dislike for previous bands/Megadeth members was almost overwhelming at points, as was his need to tell readers about conflicts he has had over the years which have resulted in the co-conflictor becoming a good friend. It was good though. Anyone who has followed Mustaine’s work over the years has had questions, and this book has a number of the answers.
Fans of metal should check this out. It was far from terrible, but I cannot say it was great. Pick up a copy if you can find it on the cheap side, just make sure you don’t may cover price.
-- FNORDinc.com
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The war between man and machine begins, but you don’t need to wait till the apocalypse to rock to your favorite jams.
As not-seen-on-tv, Harper Entertainment presents a special 2002 throwback collection: all the greatest hits of the Terminator saga al...moreThe war between man and machine begins, but you don’t need to wait till the apocalypse to rock to your favorite jams.
As not-seen-on-tv, Harper Entertainment presents a special 2002 throwback collection: all the greatest hits of the Terminator saga all in one place! T2: Rising Storm features the best in contemporary junk sci-fi with hits from S.M. Stirling, and homage paid back to James Cameron and William Wisher, key-masters of the Terminator universe!
Bringing back hits from the 80′s and 90′s, T2: Rising Storm includes classics such as:
* No fate but that we make.
* You sent your dad from the Future to save your mom and impregnate her before dying so you can be born so you can send your dad back into the past to impregnate your mom….. how does that work again?
* Run Run Run Run Run, Locate bigger firepower! Run Run….
* Your face is blown halfway off, and I can see your metal skull
* Life is like a dark highway..
Also included are new and improved Terminator universe hits, remastered and returned to the public in high definition:
* Your voice sounds like someone I know but I shouldn’t trust you because you might be a robot.
* My mother’s in a psych-ward and I’m chillin’ with Conan the Barbarian.
* I hang out with my mom a lot not because I want to but because I don’t have any friends.
But that’s not all. There’s more! New material is available. New, never before released and right at your finger tips in this collected masterwork:
* John Connor gets a girlfriend and Mom doesn’t like her.
* Oh NOES! Robot controlled killer seals!
* And more!
Don’t pass this deal by!
Order now while supplies last! The first five hundred orders will include a home Terminator in your choice of three different colors. (Introductory participation plan expires in 2002, Check local laws and statutes regarding ownership of future robotic hunter/killer devices.
-- FNORDinc.com
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