books about: darkness

books about: darkness

books:

Darkness

Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole)

Robert Crais

Simon & Schuster, 2008

must read
This is easily Robert Crais best book to date. Elvis and Pike are at their best throughout. I found it near impossible to put down and now eagerly await Robert Crais next book.

Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)

Joseph Conrad

Dover Publications, 1990

An excellent piece of epistemology!
On page 3, the narrator (not Marlow) tells us that "Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a ...

Touch of Darkness (Darkness Chosen, Book 2)

Christina Dodd

Signet, 2007

Action, Suspense, Supernatural Shape-shifting and Romance...
Over a thousand years past, a man sells his soul and that of his descendants to the Devil in exchange for the ability to shape-change into a predator and gain power and wealth. The family, the Varinskis, based in the Ukraine, are now assassins and thugs for hire. One ...

The Wheel of Darkness

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Vision, 2008

`Fraid the boogie man might git 'cha?
`Fraid the boogie man might git 'cha? Then don't read this book. It might open up Pandora's Box, bust the edges of your world as you know it and it just might wake you up. There are more realities than we acknowledge. This book delves into other realms; pushes the ...

Into the Flame (Darkness Chosen, Book 4)

Christina Dodd

Signet, 2008

FANTASTIC END!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loved it. It's the perfect end of a great story. Action, battles and of course love and passion make this book extraordinary. It was great to see so much of the rest of the brothers and their wives. The interaction between them and the dialogue makes you feel like you ...

Into the Shadow (Darkness Chosen, Book 3)

Christina Dodd

Signet, 2008

Wickedly delicious!
Christina Dodd's characters are strong, stubborn, interesting, and fun. Some romances have rather cardboard male leads, but hers, thankfully, do not. The background plot regarding the Varinski and Wilder families, the pact with the devil, and the prophecy to redeem ...

Scent of Darkness (Darkness Chosen, Book 1)

Christina Dodd

Signet, 2007

Loved this one!
I have read all three of the series and am secretly waiting for the last one but I would have to say this was my favorite. The wolf was sooo intriguing that it had my hair standing up. The fact that he could smell her mood swings or sense her LOVE for him was ...

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Prestwick House Inc., 2004

No fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil. Inconsequential story by another Marlow (Charlie)
I was motivated to re-visit Conrad's early masterpiece by Sebald's Walk in Suffolk, which contains a bio chapter on Conrad with emphasis on his Congo experience, which was a traumatic one. Conrad had taken up the job of a skipper of a river steamboat, but he quit after ...

Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)

Joseph Conrad

W. W. Norton, 2005

"Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works
I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Buy this edition, it is the best with great critical essays. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. ...

Swallowing Darkness (Meredith Gentry, Book 7)
Laurell K. Hamilton

Ballantine Books, 2008

When Darkness Comes (Guardians of Eternity, Book 1)

Alexandra Ivy

Zebra, 2007

This is a great book
This book is amazing. Is a "dark" story, with vampires, witches and what-not, but it also has a nice sense of humor and irony, coming from the mouths of the two main characters, Abby and Dante. I also like Viper, a very prominent secondary character (who's going to be ...

Embrace The Darkness (Guardians of Eternity, Book 2)

Alexandra Ivy

Zebra, 2007

Embrace the Darkness
Another great Guardians of Eternity book.. picked up the first one at a used book store. Was I glad I did. All of her books so far have been worth the price you pay. Waiting for the next one is the hard part. Great action, great story line.

Darkness Everlasting (Guardians of Eternity, Book 3)

Alexandra Ivy

Zebra, 2008

The Best!
Last year I stumbled across this author by a friend loaning me her book. Wow. I've loved the two first books in this series. Ivy can actually combine humor (I actually laugh out loud once in awhile) with suspense. This book did not disappoint. I hope she continues this ...

A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch)

Michael Connelly

Vision, 2002

Connections, contrasts and darkness cloak the answers
(review is of the 2001 Warner Books edition) We re-visit a lot of old friends in this interesting mystery, full of twists and turns. Terry McCaleb (last seen in Blood Work), who is a retired FBI profiler, is contacted by Jay Winston for help on a case. She wants him ...

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

William Styron

Vintage, 1992

Taking A Scalpel To Depression
I'll admit it - the first few times I tried reading Darkness Visible was a disaster. That long, overdrawn anecdote about his trip to Paris was as dry as and enjoyable as sucking on cardboard. Then, I made (or skipped) it to chapter two. Bingo. From there Styron ...