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Well worth the re-read

World's End (Age of Misrule, Book 1) by Mark Chadbourn

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I first read The Age of Misrule trilogy decades ago and seem to remember thinking it was only OK, but since then I’ve found my mind often returning to some of its scenes and ideas and so decided it was high time for a re-read. Based on the first book, so far my re-read has discovered that, while it has its flaws, my younger self was far too scathing in my initial assessment. In World’s End, we meet five strangers drawn together to try and avert an apocalypse. The Age of Reason is over, and creatures from legend are starting […]

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12/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:80 |

I love cheesy 90s YA horror

The Boxes by William Sleator

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First, this book was great, and I’m reminded of my oft-forgotten intention to find more Sleator.  If you like Stine, but want a slightly older and more sci-fi bent, then you’ll love his books.  I read Singularity years ago and kept an eye out for my own copy to buy ever since, which I picked up just recently.  I found THE BOXES in a Shoprite used book sale-I think the money goes towards food kitchens-and immediately grabbed it. Second, I should mention that, for those of us who were around for the whole development of the home computer as a […]

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11/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

Childhood favorite

Stonewords: A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad

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I’m not sure how old I was when I first read this book, but I do remember that it was a favorite.  Some parts of this have stuck with me for over twenty years, influencing how I think ghost stories should work.  Having been born in 1986, I still definitely feel like we 90s kids got the best ghost stories.  We had a lot of authors that we still pass on to younger generations today.  I’m honestly horrified when I meet a young reader-especially of fantasy-who doesn’t know Vivian Vande Velde or Patricia Wrede.  But it’s easy to remember and […]

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11/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

No, really, it’s a comedy

Tick Tock by Dean Koontz

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This one is a reread for me, but it’s been about a decade, so there were a few things I’d forgotten.  Not a lot, though.  I don’t know how many of you are Dean Koontz fans, but this is another one of his that is basically a normal good guy versus a supernatural evil creature.  Of course, there’s the requisite side characters and side-kicks, and, in this case, a decent portrayal of first generation American angst. One thing I definitely have to say about him is that, unlike a lot of thriller novels or films, his female characters are not […]

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11/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Guess the inspiration!

Shivers: The Locked Room by M. D. Spenser

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I think I read this one before THE ANIMAL REBELLION, but that one was so irritating, the review was much easier.  THE LOCKED ROOM wasn’t half as bad, so this may actually take some thought. I don’t remember the main character’s name at all, but she, her younger brother, and her mother have just moved across the country to live with her mother’s new husband after a whirlwind romance.  The protagonist misses her father and home, but they’re actually back in her mother’s hometown, so her favorite aunt and uncle live nearby. As with a lot of cheesy children’s novels […]

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11/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

Not Animal Farm

Shivers: The Animal Rebellion by M. D. Spenser

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I found a small pile of miscellaneous SHIVERS books at that Shoprite book sale, so, since I loved any horror as a kid and vaguely remembered a couple of these, I picked them up.  They’re short books; this one had about 115 pages.  The funny part is that after reading a couple of them, I can see where the ideas came from.  The sources include fairy tales, but also, in the case of THE ANIMAL REBELLION, I can definitely see at least a couple scenes from Animal Farm. The stories themselves aren’t anything too deep, even for children’s horror.  As […]

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11/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

Madness, Illness, Grief, and The Haunting of Hill House

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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Beware of mild spoilers … I recently finished watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix. But it is still with me. It was at times an uncomfortable watch, but it also may be one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. It can’t really be called an adaptation of the immortal Shirley Jackson novel. That classic book could be considered more of a jumping-off point for this, an original, deeply-felt horror story. The original novel, first published in 1959, concerns a group of disparate people who have come together to study a house with a bad, […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

How dare you sport thus with life

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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CBR10 BINGO:  This Old Thing (BINGO!) I wanted to title this one “Victor Frankenstein was a real d-bag” but I didn’t want to malign a 200-year-old classic like that. I know that I’m supposed to appreciate this book but I don’t. I tried several times over the years to read this and bailed early on.  Aside from Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, I tend to not like Gothic or Gothic adjacent fiction. It just makes me roll my eyes. In the interest of securing that last BINGO square during the season for spookery , I choked this one down. So, now I have to write […]

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10/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:53 |


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