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The first half of this book is excellent, the second half a little less so.

The Outsider by Stephen King

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So I did the audio on this one, and I definitely think that affected my reading, for the better. Will Patton is a good narrator (he’s the same one who narrated the Bill Hodges trilogy). Sometimes books are significantly affected by a good or bad audiobook narrator, so I just wanted to say up front that I think that is going on here for me, and I think you should know that going in. I probably would have been less forgiving without the audio. Some slight spoilers below, but if you’ve read the blurb, you’ll probably be fine. This book was […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:79 |

…and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him

Desperation by Stephen King

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Out on a lonely stretch of desert highway, there’s a cop. This cop is not the sort you’d ever want to meet, let alone so far from civilisation, but a bunch of unrelated travellers – a family, a couple, a writer and his road trip manager – are about to do so anyway, and find themselves entering a living nightmare in the aptly named town of Desperation. A lot of this book feels incredibly cinematic, with the images of the open door of the abandoned RV, overturned bicycles, flashes of metal in the hot sun and the gathering carrion eaters […]

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7/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

Murky and Dim

Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber

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This Fritz Leiber novel, published in 1977, seems both of and outside of its time. It appeared after The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, and Carrie, three books that reinvigorated the genre, but it reaches back to earlier traditions. The slim but still overly long novel tells of Franz Westen, a San Francisco resident who catches sight, through his binoculars, of a strange form. After some scene-setting, he sets off to track the creature down. Looking back at his apartment through those same binoculars, he’s startled to see it looking back through Westen’s own window. What follows is too much occult goofiness […]

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6/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

Killer Queen

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

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  I honest to the heavens thought I’d reviewed this one. The short version is: True crime fans/Murderinos will probably enjoy this one. I’m not sure anyone else will; the subject matter is pretty grim and the person in question warped like HH Holmes. Lizzie Borden may have killed her father and stepmother with an axe, but Belle Gunness killed a hell of a lot more, including her own children.

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6/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Well, this was a book.

Lisey's Story by Stephen King

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I’ve owned this book in hardcover since it was first published in 2006. Every once in a while over the last twelve years or so, I’ve looked at it and thought, oh I should read that, and then proceeded to not do that. This was in my college years, when I bought books a) Just because they were pretty, b) When I couldn’t afford them, and c) Indiscriminately, without doing any research about them. I had not read any Stephen King yet, at all, either, so yeah, let’s buy this expensive book (not even on sale!) and then not touch it for years. Good plan. […]

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5/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:63 |

Down the Rabbit Hole with Ira Levin

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

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My latest writing project is of a spooky nature, so I thought I might get a little inspiration from one of my favorite horror movies, Rosemary’s Baby. It didn’t disappoint and holds up after many viewings. Mia Farrow is having a tough trimester in Rosemary’s Baby After the umpteenth time of watching poor Mia Farrow find out what was really behind her linen closet, I got to wondering about the source material. A trip to the library resulted in a bag full of Ira Levin thrillers: Rosemary’s Baby (1967) While reading this thriller I was surprised to discover that pages of word-for-word dialogue made its […]

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3/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Finally a Book I Could Attach Myself To…

Final Girls by Riley Sager

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Quincy Carpenter is a Final Girl. If you watch horror or slasher movies, you know that the Final Girl is the one who manages to survive against the odds while all of her friends die horrific deaths.  Quincy became one after all of her friends were slaughtered on what should’ve been a fun break from college at a mountain house in the Poconos.  Ten years later, Quincy has stayed out of the public eye, fallen in love and achieved success as a baker.  The almost anonymity disappears when one of the other two final girls from the past 15 years […]

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3/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

There’s a formula to it. A very simple formula! EVERYBODY’S A SUSPECT!

Final Girls by Riley Sager

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I have a confession to make. Though I don’t know if confession is the right word. Confession hints at something one has been hiding for fear of punishment. Or SHAME. And this is nothing to be ashamed of. When I was younger, I read 100 million RL Stine books. I started with Goosebumps and then quickly moved on to Fear Street. I then graduated to Christopher Pike, and started dabbling in Stephen King at WAY WAY too young of an age. I loved RL Stine because of the formula. Guy or girl (usually young, nubile girl who is SUPER POPULAR […]

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3/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |


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