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I thought he went to the gun show.

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

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Newest collection of stories by Joe Hill, including two previously published and co-written stories with Stephe King “In the Tall Grass” and “Throttle”. “Throttle” is a remix of the Richard Matheson short story “Duel” and “In the Tall Grass” has recently been made into a Netflix original film. So, this collection covers about 10 years of story writing, and this kind of disparate path is indicative of a variable quality of these stories. A few of them are great. I thought “Faun” in which a Narnia-like portal is exploited by big game hunters and used to hunt mythical/fantasy creatures is […]

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10/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:593 |

A violent, sad, but very satisfying ending (Triple Bingo)

Locke & Key, vol 6: Alpha & Omega by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

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#CBR11 Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (horror) (Would also work for Illustrated) Spoiler warning! This is the sixth and final volume in the Locke and Key series. It is absolutely NOT the place to start. This review will probably contain spoilers both for earlier and this collection, so don’t read it unless you’re completely caught up. The first volume is Welcome to Lovecraft.  In this final volume, the Locke kids have to confront the evil that has been haunting their family for over a generation. If there was any doubt that it was going to have a heavy cost, even the first few pages dispels that […]

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10/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:74 |

A mystery, a thriller, and two collections

The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne #2) by Anthony Horowitz

I'll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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(4 stars) The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne #2) by Anthony Horowitz I really like Anthony Horowitz. His mystery novels are such incredible homages to the larger concept of A Mystery Novel. He manages to poke fun at the genre while simultaneously improving it with his writing. The Sentence is Death, his second novel in a series about a curmudgeonly ex-police officer named Hawthorne, was fantastic. Once again, a fictional version of Horowitz (Anthony) acts as the main character and narrator, and the entire novel is deliciously meta. In this novel, Hawthorne shows up at Anthony’s door after a celebrity divorce […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:204 |

If Uncle Stevie’s name is on it, odds are I’m going to read it.

Flight or Fright by Stephen King, Bev Vincent

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CBR11bingo #TheCollection Its no secret that I am not a huge fan of flying. I understand that it is the safest way to travel. But I usually choose to drive if I can. I like to be able to choose my own route, to leave when I want to leave, to stop when I want to stop. I like to be in control of my journey. I think the lack of that control in an airplane is part of what makes me uneasy. Oh, and the fact that I’m in a metal tube shooting across the sky is another part. […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

Ain’t no sunshine (The Collection)

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

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Try and contain your shock, but a book by Joe Hill is dark. I’m used to the horror author writing books that have a macabre bent, but this was less “skeleton and ghost dark” and more “I’m gonna curl up on the couch and remind myself that this is fiction dark.” The collection is four novellas connected loosely by abnormal weather – lightning storms in “Snapshot,” a firestorm in “Loaded,” an unusual cloud in “Aloft” and fulgurite rain in “Rain.” But the darkest part of each of the stories is the people, not the supernatural elements.  “Snapshot,” “Aloft,” and “Rain” were […]

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7/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:57 |

Nobody wears this much armor unless it has been hurt by someone who had no reason to hurt him.

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

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This book presents the same interesting challenge that I like in a book: how to deal with an absolutely bad protagonist. I don’t mean uncompelling, but a bad dude. And not actually one super interested in redemption. He kind of is by the end, but only because of the costs he incurs throughout the book. Jude is a semi-retired heavy metal rock star. He’s got a young girlfriend he calls Georgia, from where she’s from. He’s also recently broken up with another similar girlfriend named Florida. You get it. At the beginning of the book he is contacted by a […]

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5/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:276 |

NOS4A2

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

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What a journey I had with this novel. I am, at least in name, a member of a horror book club that one of my pals put together. This was the selection, so, like a dutiful book club member I picked it up. The waitlist was forever long for the novel but eventually, the audio was available and I dug in. I was positively delighted to discover that the narrator was Kate Mulgrew, aka Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager and Red from Orange is the New Black. She is a powerhouse of a woman, with a wonderfully gravelly voice […]

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2/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Episode 1-08: I Always Thought That’d I See You Again

The Fireman, The Way of Kings, The Stainless Steel Rat Sings The Blues, The Prince of Mist by Joe Hill, Brandon Sanderson, Harry Harrison, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/02/26/episode-1-08-i-always-thought-that-id-see-you-again/ Wherein I Review: 22. The Fireman by Joe Hill 23. The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive #1) by Brandon Sanderson 24. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings The Blues (Stainless Steel Rat #3) by Harry Harrison 25. The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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2/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:25 |


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