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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

August 30, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is funny, wise, and as close to a perfect novel as you’re likely to find. Protagonist Ignatius C. Reilly is a bloated buffoon, a man-baby who lives with his mother, has a troubled digestive valve that causes him to burp and fart with great frequency, and possesses […]

Filed Under: Bestsellers, Book Review, Literary Fiction, Novels, Personal Favorites Tagged With: A Confederacy of Dunces, book review, comedy, farce, funny, John Kennedy Toole, love story, mother vs son, perfect novel, Pulitzer Prize, sadness

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

August 6, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

The magic of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling lies in its combination of simplicity and familiarity. Like a three-chord pop song, Harry Potter sticks in your head, causing pleasant sensations as it bounces around your brain. We know this story; an unlikely hero with a regal destiny is sent on an […]

Filed Under: Bestsellers, Book Review, Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Novels, Series, Young Adult Tagged With: book review, Brothers Grimm, fantasy, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Mother Goose, myth, name game, Sorcerer's Stone

Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road by Edward Lee, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene, Bryan Smith, J. F. Gonzalez, Wrath James White, Nate Southard, Ryan Harding, and Shane McKenzie

June 5, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

 This is a good book written for a great cause; to help fund the medical bills of writer Tom Piccirilli. Pic’s colleagues in hardcore horror decided to pitch-in on a round robin novel to help support their friend. For that reason alone the book is worth buying. Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road is written by, and […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Horror Tagged With: book review, Brian Keene, Bryan Smith, Edward Lee, J. F. Gonzalez, Jack Ketchum, Nate Southard, Ryan Harding, Shane McKenzie, Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road, Wrath James White

Header and Creekers by Edward Lee

May 25, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

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There is something beautiful and poetic about  the splatterpunk redneck fiction on display in Edward Lee‘s novella Header (1995) and the long-form novel Creekers (1994). Lee’s redneck horror pays homage to Richard Laymon‘s novels of backwoods terror as well as James Dickey‘s classic, Deliverance. Lee’s work is violent and nasty, but his pacing and dialogue are […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Ebooks, Horror, Novellas, Novels, Personal Favorites, Supernatural Thriller Tagged With: book review, Creekers, Edward Lee, Header, redneck horror, splatter punk

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

May 25, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a slow literary slog. This 1967 novel, considered a landmark work of Latin American magical realist fiction, is a major drudge. It felt like it took me 100 years to read. I couldn’t find my way around the Buendia family tree and all its weird, gnarled branches. […]

Filed Under: Bestsellers, Literary Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels Tagged With: book review, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, history of Colombia, incest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, South America, surreal, weird

Our Great Abbess by C.L. Holmes

March 1, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

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In the interest of full disclosure, I was fortunate to read an early draft of C.L. Holmes’s Our Great Abbess, and I enjoyed it so much, I asked if I could publish it. Read more about Abbess below, or go get it here. Our Great Abbess blends historical fiction and religious horror to tell a […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Historical fiction, Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Religious horror Tagged With: Bad Hound Press, book review, C. L. Holmes, convent, debut novel, faith, historical fiction, nuns, Our Great Abbess, rape, religious horror, siege, starvation, torture, women's empowerment

A Widow’s Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates

February 21, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

“Give sorrow words,” William Shakespeare says. “The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” Joyce Carol Oates gives her sorrow words in A Widow’s Story: A Memoir, which chronicles the death of her longtime husband, Ontario Review editor, Ray Smith, and the first year of Oates’ widowhood. “Widowhood is […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Memoir, NonFiction Tagged With: A Memoir, A Widow’s Story, book review, grief, human frailty, Joyce Carol Oates, love story, recovery, sorrow

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron

January 6, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

Laird Barron writes weird. Barron is a good writer, but the stories contained in his collection, The Imago Sequence  and Other Stories, are sometimes hard to figure. You’ll need a dictionary, good map skills, and a working knowledge of mythology, world religions, philosophy, horror fiction, and crime pulps to make heads or tails of these […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Crime Fiction, Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Short Story Collection / Single Author, Supernatural Thriller Tagged With: book review, Crime fiction, Existence, Hardboiled crime, Henchmen, horror, Imago Sequence, James M. Cain, Jim Thompson, Laird Barron, Philosophy, Raymond Chandler, Religion, Tough guys

Ido in Autismland: Breaking Out of Autism’s Silent Prison

May 4, 2014 by Bob 2 Comments

Ido Kedar is angry — and it’s awesome! You can’t blame him. For the first 12 years of his life, Ido Kedar was stuck in an uncooperative body, unable to communicate. Even now, as a teenager, his communication is limited to pointing to letters on a keyboard. But don’t assume his lack of speech equals […]

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Book Review: I’m Not Sam by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee

May 23, 2013 by roberrera Leave a Comment

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I’m Not Sam by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee What if you awoke one morning to find your wife — your soulmate, the love of your life, the person you know better than anyone else — is no longer herself? Instead, she insists she’s a seven-year-old named Lily. This is the simple-yet-effective premise that drivesI’m […]

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Cheap Gas Is Great, But Where Are The Other Savings?

“Can I have $40 regular? Cash.” This used to get the gas tank on our SUV nearly full. But the other day something miraculous happened. The pump clicked to a stop after $29.50. “That fills it,” the gas station attendant said, seemingly as astonished as I was. “Here’s your change, sir.” Wow. I couldn’t have […]

New Short Story Collection! Songs In The Key Of Madness

My new collection of rock-n-roll horror stories, Songs In The Key Of Madness: New Variations on Hangman’s Jam, is out! Here’s what it’s about: Hangman’s Jam never dies! A song crawls through time, shredding holes between the dimensions, and spelling doom to all who fall under its undeniable sway. Throughout the ages, lovers and losers, the famous […]

The Two Sams by Glen Hirshberg

You won’t find any vampires, werewolves or other traditional monsters in Hirshberg’s horror fiction. You’ll barely even find horror in The Two Sams. What you will find are five stories laden with human sorrow and a palpable atmosphere of dread. These stories are not so much written as they are crafted. You can practically see […]

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