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I found this very much to be a "Heart of Darkness" type story. Very enjoyable and the pictures Mr. Ballard paints of submerged London should have very few rivals in a dystopian world. An interesting tale about a possible end of days and the effect this has on different members of society. Well worth reading!

What a Great Story! I first came across it when I found the movie on TV and saw it was set in Finland. As our family has connections to there I saved it and it has since become a favourite. In it we follow young Oskari on the eve of his 13th birthday being sent out to prove himself a man by shooting a game animal with his villages ancient bow. Before his is even a few hours along a huge fireball comes crashing out of the sky almost on top of him and the Big Game is afoot! This is an awesome rite of passage story and one that will keep you looking at the next page until there are no more!

A very interesting and insightful treatise on firearms ownership in America. Mr. Baum takes us across the country visiting gun shops, shooting ranges, national groups for and against firearms, individuals who use them for recreation and those who have used them for more nefarious purposes. The book explores why certain people like guns for certain reasons and why others do not as well as looking into the political aspect of ownership. This would be a good read for both firearm owners and those who don't.

Another Great Thriller by Matthew Reilly! Jack West Jr. is back and teamed up with Scarecrow and Mother in a never-ending ride of impossible escapes from the minions of Hell!

This book is the prequel to A Flash Of Red and A Whisper Of Black and as such fills us in on a little bit of the back history of Tyler Vance. It is a good action packed read that helps fill out the main character a little further and continues in the vein as the other two books. We meet Ty as a young man growing up learning to hunt and shoot with good buddy Dave. Getting into trouble with a local by means of his never walk away from trouble attitude the two join the army and Dave ends up in Vietnam and Tyler in Korea. The story takes on a new twist when Dave is awarded his third purple heart and Ty realizes he has had enough of being a run and gun sniper in the DMZ. The two arrive back home only to find their previous trouble has only festered and become even worse and then all hell breaks loose!

What to say! Another story of the Oregon and Cabrillo and crew! A fast and entertaining story that takes place in Antarctica. The perfect one to while away a few hours!

Another classic Matthew Reilly! The second appearance of Captain Shane Schofield delivers everything as expected from his first appearance in Ice Station! Mr. Reilly gives us runaway roller coaster action, non-stop thrills and endless surprizes all wrapped up so you just have to keep reading! The President as he arrives at top secret Area 7 is ambushed and captured by rogue element of a dissatisfied air force. After his secret service watchdogs are decimated only a handful of his Marine Honor Guard is left to carry the day. And what a long day it turns out to be.

This is a book I read every few years and it holds its' own special place on the shelf with the few books I have left dealing with military history. At one time I had over three hundred volumes dealing just with the Vietnam War. Why this one and only a few others have remained, I cannot really say except for the fact that it stays in my memory as one of the milestones of that conflict. It tells the story of a few groups of ANZAC soldiers out on a routine patrol in the area of the Long Tan rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province in South Vietnam. What should have been a walk in the jungle with little expectation of meeting the enemy turned into a meeting of Main Force North Vietnamese Army regulars and an intense battle for their very lives. One hundred Australian soldiers, many who had never been in combat, stumbled into a force 250 times their size and fought for hours with most of their compliment surviving. It is a story of training, dedication to fellow soldiers, camaraderie and the will to survive. It is also the story of their fellow ANZACs back at base who led the fire support missions for the big guns and the pilots who flew resupply into a very hot area of operations. Mr. McAulay does a very good work of personalizing the very human soldiers involved and turns this book into something special. This was not the first incident of Main Force NVA meeting with Allied Forces but it was also very early into the war and seems all the more poignant with the lesser amount of back up and reinforcement that the Australians had at their disposal. Well worth the read and then to be read again.

This was a different Grisham for me. All of his books I've read have been fast paced, intense legal thrillers that tend to go very fast. This was a delightful read! Still a thriller but much more low key and it seems to me very much tongue-in-cheek! AND the bad guy gets to win!!!

This volume celebrates some of the history of the Wildstorm comics brand before the were absorbed by DC. Lots of work by their original artists, J. Scott Campbell being my favourite! Some of the stories celebrated are Wildcats, Gen 13, The Authority and Ex Machina to drop a few names. Some old stories revisited and some new with lots of extra goodies dropped in for the true fan. An excellent rememberall or a true introduction and an excellent read for anyone!

A great book of classic science fiction stories about initial contact with alien beings. Stories all guaranteed to make you think a little on this subject, even more so when you realize they were all written over five decades ago!

An interesting take on time travel, driving up and down a never-ending road and taking the right turnoff to your time. This is an enjoyable story with interesting characters and a twisted ending that you never saw coming!

The cover said "Classic SF adventure reminiscent of Heinlien at his best" so I had to have a look. After all I've been reading and rereading those stories for the past fifty years! Shockrockets did not disappoint! This is a great classic story of an adept young tinkerer growing up during war in the next century who just happens to fall into the cockpit of an elite fighting machine and helps carry the day. The fact that this is a graphic novel which has superb artwork and colours to pair with the story is an awesome bonus!

A very well written book about the beginnings of the development and use of helicopters in combat. From the wisp of an idea to full fledged fighting in the Ia Drang Mr. Coleman writes an engaging and fascinating history of the Garry Owens'.

The first Jesse Stone and a great introduction to the character who has become one of my favourites. We meet Jesse down and out after a shattering divorce looking to get as far away from LA as possible and still have a job. After looking, talking and smelling like a lush he manages to get hired as police chief in Paradise. Coply instincts kick in as the town experiences a rash of murders and those who were looking for a pasty police chief find themselves being hunted. A great story and an excellent series!

One of my favourite ERB stories, so similar in form to many of his books but also quite different. Set in the future after the last great war divided the world into the East and West where neither half knew much if any of the other and the West has prospered into a great civilization. Our hero, Jefferson Turck, through mishap crosses the forbidden boundary of 30 degrees West Longitude. There he discovers a shattered Great Britain populated by savages and great beasts as well as the surviving Queen of Grabritten. Beautifully written in a style we all know well and enough to keep any Burroughs' fan entertained for a few hours!

Classic Alistair Maclean! The adventures of Mallory, Andrea, Miller, Brown and company never get old. This book is almost as old as I am but the story never fails to keep the pages turning as fast as you can, no matter how often you have read it. An excellent WWII suspense thriller that will not let you down!

In another time and another war these little snapshots of soldiers lives would be classed as trench art. The little Zippo lighter which has been around for almost 90 years is showcased in this book as a canvas for the dreams, loves and lives of the men involved in the Vietnam war. The many pictures tell the story. A very nice compilation of these now mementoes of conflict.

A great little story from the Stainless Steel Rat! This is very much a Seventies story but it is one that somehow makes you want and need to keep turning pages. Characters that you can get along with, good science and just enough bravado to keep things interesting. If you can find a copy and like some of the hard science in science fiction then you will enjoy this book.

This was a great story and makes me want to find and read the first instalment, Flood. Earth is doomed by rising flood waters that when this story opens have covered all but the highest areas of the world. The first part of the story is taken by the selection of the candidates who will be chosen to fly the ark and the building of the ark itself. Afterwards the launch and the fourty or so years journey to get to a New Earth. This one will make you want to keep turning pages.

Jesse Stone.............Through all the books and especially after the death of Robert B Parker, Mr. Coleman has continued this much loved series to a greater climax! A Stone fan owns every book and looks back fondly when mention is made to a previous happenstance. We also expect new forms of death and several intertwined circumstances which should lead to every important character in the story with suspicious bent. The Hangmans' Sonnet fulfills everything a Stone fan needs! Thank You for this latest installment and please give us more!

This was a much cuter and more enjoyable book that I had first thought. It got me engaged right from the get-go and didn't let me down. The premise, dealing with AI run amok is not new by any means but the authors' blatant tongue-in-cheek attitude makes this story pop! Several times I found myself bursting out with a laugh and having to go back and re-read the lines and chuckle all over again! The characters are engaging and easy to believe in the context of the story line. AND the descriptions of Droid-Fu are not to be missed! Enjoy!

A very nice collection of all the Sunday Tarzan strips that Burne Hogarth drew. His artwork brought something unique and dangerous to Tarzan. Reading them for the timeless stories one cannot help but be drawn right into the panels, right into the picture. This collection is a beautiful return to the golden age of Sunday Funnies!

This was a Good Book. Not only did it continue on the story of King Kong we all saw in the Jack Black movie, but it did so in a vastly entertaining and logical way. Filling in some gaps and carrying the story onward with the grandson of the late Carl Denham this novel rapidly becomes a page turner. If you love the story of the Great Ape, you will not be disappointed!

This was an astonishing book. Chronicling the women who were the first computers and their part in the fledgling Jet Propulsion Laboratory from the 1940's right through to today. These are the women who did the calculations and later wrote the programs to put a man on the moon, take him off again and explore the fringes of our planetary system. It is simply an amazing story and Ms. Holt has written it in such a way that keeps you reading right to the last page!

Ryan Cawdor and Friends! For good escapist, after the end of all things as we know them fiction with lots of bangs and booms, the Deathlands series is right there at the top of the list. Solid dependable stories that entertain and while away a few hours. Now I have to scrounge through the old bookstores to see if I can find the second in this mini series!

I'd forgotten just how much fun it was to read Agatha Christie! An easy page turner with clues tossed about like candy at a parade but even then it's amazing just how many you miss! That is until Hercule Poirot lists them back for you and then it all becomes clear! Another excellent story!

James Gibbores' personal history of his enlistment and time in Vietnam starts off and reads like so many others. Starting with a troubled youth/bad boy past into recruitment and training and then moving in country. To be sure he landed in Cam Ranh Bay in 1970 in the later years of a bad war. What makes his story so interesting is just how good a soldier he became even with all the partying, drinking and drugs that seemed so prolific in those years there. From cherry to team leader and keeping most of his people alive was a great accomplishment. His struggle after being invalided out and return home to work through years of public disapproval and PTSD and to return to society so many years later is another great accomplishment. I am fortunate to have been able to follow his story!

I have always loved the graphic stories, aka, comic books. Here I am well into my sixth decade and still reading comic books. While there is a wealth of really good books out there today, I must say I'm stuck in my time from the 50's, 60's and 70's. Storylines haven't changed a whole lot but the artwork. It's hard to find artists today who can invoke such immediate involvement into the story (at least for me) as some of those early pencilers. Wally Wood with his horror, fantasy and science fiction stories is one of the best from that era. Tales From The Crypt, Creepy, Tales Of The Incredible and not to forget the first four issues of The M.A.R.S. Patrol in the early sixties for me are stories I can read over and over. Timeless. Finding this compilation of stories by Wood, I am all over again enthralled by the skill and artistry that blends story and pictures into an endgame. If you can find a copy of this book, please read it for the stories, then look at it for the artwork and once more for the whole picture. You will not be disappointed!

Some days when you are ploughing through books you just want to stop and have a little break! Then I bookmark the current one and pull down an old favourite. This is one of those books. Probably read this more than a dozen times but the premise and characters always make me sit up and take notice. This stuff just does not get any better!

Stephanie Plum, Lula, Grandma, Morelli, Ranger and so many more! It just doesn't get any better. The latest Plum adventure will have you shaking your head, laughing and crying (from laughing)! Immensely satisfying and a perfect chance to while away a few hours in and around Trenton, New Jersey!

This was a very interesting book. Not one but two biographies. The one of outlaw motorhead Tommy Arney and the other a 1957 Chevrolet four-door wagon and how these two lives became intertwined. Tracing Arneys' tumultuous life from a nowhere, nothing kid to millionaire and back to next to nothing as well as following the Chevy from first buyer progressing through the stages of it's life and owners to near death and then rebirth. A very well researched story that is fascinating and very hard to put down!

When I saw this book, I had to buy it. Haunted Snohomish proves to be an interesting little history of the picturesque Washington state city. With ghosts! The author takes us back to the late 1800's and the beginnings of the town and up through to the present day. She has many pictures of the city from log cabins to the charming First Street that we know today. Many buildings present today are recognizable in photos from the 1920's. It's going to be interesting knowing that the next time I'm in the Oxford saloon that I'll be looking up above the bar where the scary little doll used to sit and wondering if she still moves by herself. Or if that spirit who likes to grab at people in the downstairs of Fred's Alehouse is still around. Ms. Cuyle details dozens of interesting spirit stories with first person accounts from the people who encountered them. Well worth the read, especially if you have an interest in the Pacific Northwest!

Hondo Lane, survivor of the desert, scout for the US Cavalry and a hard man to cross. Classic Louis L'Amour. Action, drama in a story that won't let you put it down which also contains little nuggets of wisdom and knowledge about the American West. Another old favourite.

This was a pretty good book. I admit to picking it up on the cheap table mainly because of the catchy title and then after reading the dust jacket, taking it home. It starts out as an interesting story about small town life but quickly the pages start turning faster and faster. Small town Maine, newspaper owner Simon finds life average until the postcards start arriving. Innocuous at first and growing into veiled threats he finds his everyday life quickly turned upside down and falling into a forgotten past. One mans' life and another's horror devolving into murder! An excellent story!

I hate to be one of those readers who say, "I really enjoyed those articles and books by your father" but here I am. As I was growing up and not so very much older than Bart Skelton, I discovered Skeeter in the pages of Shooting Times and Guns & Ammo. What can I say, I'm a shooter. Competitive, recreational, hunter and am fortunate enough to sell firearms to like minded citizens for a part time living. I've missed Skeeter but in this book of "Down On The Border" stories, Bart Skelton has carried on the tradition and made it his own. Interesting and informative short stories about life in the southern border states and what it is to be a lawman and a citizen in that country. Every story is entertaining and filled with the author's memories making you feel like you were almost there at the time. This book holds an honoured place on the first bookshelf right beside Skeeter's and Sally Jim's books. I can only hope he pens another!

Yet another fast paced adventure thriller from the Alex Archer team! Good strong characters and interesting plot lines that probably have more reality in there than we credit! Good Stories.

This is a second excellent book by Jody Mitic. His first, Unflinching, showed us his great personal courage and resolute will to fight back from devastating combat wounds. An amazing story. Everyday Heroes takes us into the service lives of average Canadians who joined up to serve and help protect people around the world, from World War 2 up and into Afghanistan. The candid stories from these twenty-one everyday Canadians are both poignant and touching. Every one of them came back with damage from their conflict and managed to somehow work their way to what could be called normal. A very personal look into the lives of those who Stand On Guard for the rest of us.

This is an exceptionally fast paced action thriller. The premise and events, even though it was written twenty years ago, could still be plausible in todays world. Strong, enigmatic mercenaries who don't exist, power crazed dictators, rogue CIA operatives and biological nightmare weapons all roll logically together in a save-the-world adventure you will not want to put down. Walter Wager has another stunning thriller.

This was for me, a book that grabbed your attention from the get go! We've all heard stories of lost cities of gold in Africa and South America but for some reason Honduras doesn't spring to mind. Not sure why? Mr. Stewart has put together a remarkable account of Theodore Mordes' 1940 expedition into the jungle of La Mosquitia. Perhaps due to his extensive research the authors' account of that expedition reads like he was there. But he also, almost 70 years later retraced the same route that Morde took to find the Lost White City. Not only one but two expeditions separated only by the rift of time. All the trials and dangers of 1940 were still there in 2008 and to read about the two expeditions side by side is fascinating.

This was an excellent action thriller! It's full of everything Gun Guys love to see in their books! Crusty Gunnys, accurately described hardware being used in reasonably accurate ways. Tough bad guys and even tougher heroes, it just doesn't get much better! Sgt. Ray Cruz is sent on a mission in the 'Stan, becomes compromised and manages to turn the tables on the bad guys uncovering collusion at the very highest levels of the agencies sworn to protect America. Characters that we can invest and believe in while being well written and enjoyable!

The Rogue Angel stories are an excellent way to while away time while enjoying a rollicking good read. It is easy to believe in the characters and allow one to be drawn into the story. There are always interesting villains, interesting plots, great battles and tidbits of archaeology in the mix! The stories are similar but different and that is part of the charm. Good reliable fiction!

This was an interesting and very readable book. The story takes place over hundreds of years and characters are introduced and done away with as time goes by. There is never any real protagonist that one can identify up front. However it's a very good story where a fading civilization is given a monstrous task to create a seven mile long starship destined to take several hundred years. The pages turn readily despite or maybe because of the ever changing cast. I'm still puzzling over the final pages when the fellow who started the whole endeavour showed up and destroyed everything. The cover blurb asks "Who Was The Real Master of the Starship Victory"? Was he a God or a Demon??

This graphic novel (read that comic book) rendition of one of my favourite sci-fi novels is very, very well done! The team of Haldeman and Marvano beautifully capture the essence of the story in pictures and words. I usually read the book once a year and the tale of reluctant UNEF soldier William Mandella who, once in can never get out of the service and with battles fought hundreds of years apart in both time and space show how futile war can actually be.

While this was an interesting and mild thriller, I suppose I expected a little more due to my familiarity with firearms. However it is a well written story with a good (that more citizens than you realize are thinking about) premise and one you will want to read through to the end quickly. The characters are plausible. At least the Homeowner, I can't claim any knowledge of gang members. This is a great little story which kept me turning pages and has found a home on the shelves to be read again later!

A very good final book to the series. I enjoyed the continuing development of the characters, the little twists and upsets in the storyline and the bit of the surprize near the end. A very fitting close to the trials of the Mockingjay! This series has earned a spot on the shelf to be read again somewhere down the road.

This was a very good sequel! Even with the installation of the Second Hunger Game, Ms Collins changed things up just enough to more than keep my interest and her new round of disasters more than made up for any deficiency I might have thought I detected. Indeed, while writing a good stand alone story she has set movements in place for the next book. (Which I am now halfway through!). This was also an awesome book with the added benefit of a growth in knowledge about the characters. More than worth the read!

I had wanted to read these books ever since watching the first show. Ms. Collins did not disappoint. A very good story with strong characters and a style that makes you want to keep turning pages. The book also fills in more subtle detail which is often not available in a feature film. I'm looking forward to the next two books!

I enjoyed this book! Browsing the back cover I was expecting a mild sci-fi story and that's part of what I got. Set in a not too distant future where climate has changed most of the U.S. into a desert wasteland and people have shifted into northern Canada to survive. But this story is also full of First Nations spirituality and Cree myth. Most interesting and compelling. A story you will not want to put down.

This has been an interesting book of essays on one of my favourite subjects, Comic Books. I've been reading them for over fifty years. Why or how I started is long lost in time but I've enjoyed reading, collecting and re-reading for a lifetime. It is interesting and even gratifying to see into others take on the why and how and quirkiness of their persuasion. Even more so when some of our interests collide. This neat little book has earned a spot on my shelves and is earmarked to be read again.

I picked this book up because the title caught my eye and then after reading the jacket synopsis I thought I might enjoy it. I totally did. Even though I discovered that it was the fourth book in a series and there had obviously been a lot more goings on in the past, this book rapidly became a page turner. The non stop action related in the first person narrative certainly keeps your attention and the dark past/personas of the characters makes you want to know them. I was more than able and willing to buy into the premise of invasion of the homeland and the attempt to insert back into the fray because of higher orders. I shall have to look for the other books in this series and reacquaint myself with the characters!

What is there to say? Douglas Reeman writes excellent war novels which usually turn out to be a mild love story as well. For realistic action in circumstances we can only imagine his books abound with the sights, sounds and feel of the sea. In The Destroyers an aging flotilla of ships go forth in desperation to do battle with much more modern forces. A great story and one you will not want to put down!

I confess I bought this book mainly because of the title and a quick read of the cover blurb. However after the first few chapters I didn't want to put it down. The author has created a believable world that is interesting and frightening at the same time. Following the lives of Lake, Emiko, Jaidee, Kanya and Hock Seng for this short time draws you in and keeps you reading. Calorie Men, White Shirts, Gene Rippers, New People all in their own quest for survival, profit and power set in a dystopian Old Thailand with elements of steampunk. I enjoyed this story and will be looking for some more books by Mr. Bacigalupi.

One of those page turning, post apocalyptic novels that took me far too long to read. All my own fault really. Once you start you don't want to put it down unless life interferes. It also makes me want to read Directive 51, the precursor to this novel. Civilization has broken down. The moon is lobbing EMP bombs at surviving radio stations. Daybreak is near...Told in a vast series of quick moving vignettes through the eyes of multiple characters, you never really get a chance to catch up until it's over. Certainly a very good read!

This is a great flying story with an usual twist. Mr. Forsyth captures the emotions and feelings that run through the head of an RAF pilot on his way home over the North Sea on Christmas Eve. The twist is that he is about to run out of fuel in an airplane with no working navigation instruments. Oh, and in dense fog as well. Watching the pilot go from black despair back to the business of seat-of-the-pants flying and a final rescue from an airplane that disappeared fourty years earlier is an uplifting story. This one should be in everyones library!

The Forever War is very good Space Opera. Fun to read, fast paced with believable characters. Watching Private Mandella grow from a raw recruit into the old salt and hero of the war makes for a very enjoyable read. Even though it takes him 1200 years to do it! This is a great book to spend a long afternoon or a couple of evenings with.