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My favorite collection of Mythos stories yet! Lumley gets down to the nitty-gritty of Lovecraftian fiction with his shorts from the 70's and later. Gripping and raw, these stories reawakened my love for the craft.
Grisly, macabre, and semi-erotic. This piece pulls you in, makes you sweat, and leaves you gasping for breath at the end. I could not put this book down.
Highly recommended for Cthulhu Mythos fans; get the inside peak at the development of a monster.
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Aqualusa weaves a tale of relaxed subterfuge and false identity, with the dream states of a household gecko. The reader can kick back with Felix Bendito, an Albino who creates pasts for his customers. These customers in turn pay him a good sum for his services. The dreams of the household gecko are neither frightening nor dull, but full of colors and imagery of things past and present. This is a very colorful and easy to read novel that is both short, sweet, and tinged with mystery.
On the negative, the book was full of blank pages that could have been filled or consolidated making me feel as if the publisher was attempting to fatten the book for sales.
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Toni Morrison is an extremely educated author, and weaves a complex story about African-American heritage and its historic plight. Deep and full of dark grooves, Paradise shows us the underbelly of racism in the deep South. Puzzles abound for the reader, and when it starts "They shot the white girl first...", we are taken on a journey to discover who the white girl is amongst all the African-American women.
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Lumley presents some of his standard barbarian material is this collection of short stories. The good - it's a continuous saga of Tarra Khash a barbarian from the steppes. The bad - the stories are a bit Conan The Barbarian - ish, so if you don't like Conan you may not like these. I would love to see this collection grown into more detail. The ideas are fantastic, and the writing is pretty good. I'm a huge HP Lovecraft fan, so the references to Cthulhu are outstanding! Nothing compares with his Necroscope books I II and III. Some great easy reading material I'd say.
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Best Mythos Tales: The Taint and other Novellas, Haggopian and other Stories
Trevor Donaldson, May 14, 2009
My favorite collection of Mythos stories yet! Lumley gets down to the nitty-gritty of Lovecraftian fiction with his shorts from the 70's and later. Gripping and raw, these stories reawakened my love for the craft.Dagon by Fred Chappell
Trevor Donaldson, May 14, 2009
Grisly, macabre, and semi-erotic. This piece pulls you in, makes you sweat, and leaves you gasping for breath at the end. I could not put this book down.Highly recommended for Cthulhu Mythos fans; get the inside peak at the development of a monster.
(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Trevor Donaldson, March 10, 2009
Aqualusa weaves a tale of relaxed subterfuge and false identity, with the dream states of a household gecko. The reader can kick back with Felix Bendito, an Albino who creates pasts for his customers. These customers in turn pay him a good sum for his services. The dreams of the household gecko are neither frightening nor dull, but full of colors and imagery of things past and present. This is a very colorful and easy to read novel that is both short, sweet, and tinged with mystery.On the negative, the book was full of blank pages that could have been filled or consolidated making me feel as if the publisher was attempting to fatten the book for sales.
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Paradise by Toni Morrison
Trevor Donaldson, January 1, 2009
Toni Morrison is an extremely educated author, and weaves a complex story about African-American heritage and its historic plight. Deep and full of dark grooves, Paradise shows us the underbelly of racism in the deep South. Puzzles abound for the reader, and when it starts "They shot the white girl first...", we are taken on a journey to discover who the white girl is amongst all the African-American women.(0 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
Tarra Khash: Hrossak!: Tales of the Primal Land by Brian Lumley
Trevor Donaldson, December 24, 2008
Lumley presents some of his standard barbarian material is this collection of short stories. The good - it's a continuous saga of Tarra Khash a barbarian from the steppes. The bad - the stories are a bit Conan The Barbarian - ish, so if you don't like Conan you may not like these. I would love to see this collection grown into more detail. The ideas are fantastic, and the writing is pretty good. I'm a huge HP Lovecraft fan, so the references to Cthulhu are outstanding! Nothing compares with his Necroscope books I II and III. Some great easy reading material I'd say.(0 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
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