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Okay, I don't think I can really convincingly explain this, but I just about think DeLillo's books are perfect books to me. Never a line out of place and always in a sort of a rhythm that keeps you reading. The characters seem ultra-real, certainly more than even King's sometimes, and they...

I love comics, and when Marvel decided to publish a Dark Tower comic to add to the canon of the source material I was thrilled. I have always felt Comics had the power to hold a reader in a visual way no other medium could as powerfully tell. I got into the superhero genre, the independent...

Oh wow, I saw the 20th Anniversary versions of this book and I just knew I had to get them. The new Scribner paperbacks have this nice sandy feel to it that make them feel really premium. I haven't seen the hardcover version but I think it looks just as nice. Is anyone else excited enough to...

I just started reading the Bachman Books, and I thought Rage was absolutely rubbish? It was unpolished, rude, offensive and yet tense at the same time, and I have no idea what to make of it. It made me feel ashamed that I liked a writer who wrote such appalling stuff. It was as if he...

There are few writers that can capture the imagination of their readers as well as Stephen King. Carrie is, as told by Stephen, a rough and raw novel written by a younger writer whose craft is taking form. But if books are judged by the level of visceral tenacity and wild idea-slinging, Carrie...

Hope you read a good book, as you enjoy your holidays... Bless you guys!

I just started reading Carrie, and although there are alot of teenage elements that I felt were very applicable to teenagers, especially the humiliation that could result from bullying and social exclusion, but I felt it was still a little hardcore in terms of the themes and implications of...