On this blog’s sister site, the official Pandora’s Children website, I have posted 2 new posts, one on the books I am currently reading, one on the books I just bought.  I’ll be doing a weekly update on what’s new in the world of books for me, so if you are interested, head over to Pandora’s Children and check it out.  This week… Stephen King, Jim Butcher, Simon Green, a couple of Dragonlance and Forgotten [...]

I never thought I would use any sort of electronic reader to read books on a regular basis.  And I still don’t,  and never will, unless paper books go the way of the dodo.  My wife, father and mother all have Sony eReaders, but I will never give up my paper and ink books.  The feel of a book, the smell of a new book, being able to dog ear pages… they are part of [...]

We will never see another Stephen King in our lifetime. But in a world lacking in quality horror, his son is doing an admirable job of writing good, easy and enjoyable to read horror. I’m only 1/3 of the way through Horns, but it is an excellent read.  It flows.  it rarely hangs up.  It is engaging.  And while not a “page turner” because it is not a mystery or thriller “who done it”, though there are [...]

Clive Barker is one of my favorite authors, right up there with Stephen King and Neil Gaiman.  I haven’t read everything he has written, but most of his works.  Weaveworld and The Damnation Game rank up there with Gaiman’s American Gods and King’s It as some of my favorite books. nd I have read Barker’s Books of blood volumes 1-3, as well as volumes 4-6, which were released under other names (In the Flesh, The [...]

WARNING: Spoilers below.  Sorry, can’t be helped.  But while I will ruin some of the surprises, I will not reveal the ultimate ending.  Star Wars: Legacy of the Force is a nine part series set several years after the last major trilogy, New Jedi Order.  It is written by three authors, each penning three of the novels.  The authors include, in no particular order, Aaron Allston, Karen Traviss and Troy Denning.  Denning is the most [...]

Disclaimer: No spoilers below Just finished the Dark Disciple trilogy (otherwise known as the amber trilogy), and I will admit that i was disappointed.  I don’t know what i was expecting, but something more than this, especially coming from one of the two Dragonlance paragons, Margaret Weis.  Any time Weis or Hickman do a Dragonlance story, I guess i expect something… epic.  Or funny.  Cause I loved the Doom Brigade Books. This trilogy just lacked [...]

I just finished reading stephen King’s latest novel, Duma Key Ever since Bag of Bones, I have been less enthusiastic about King’s new novels, and often wait several years to read them.  Don’t gte me wrong, I go out and buy them as soon as they are released, but I let them fester on my bookshelf while I attend to shorter paperbacks.  I did them same thing with Cell and with From a Buick 8. [...]