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The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)
Stephen King
Signet, 1991
Insane, epic and brilliant
+ One of his crowning achievements
+ outstanding vision
+ One of the longest (and greatest!) books you'll read...
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Native Tongue
Carl Hiaasen
Grand Central Publishing, 2005
preposterous fun
+ Great Summer Read!
+ I smell a rat!
+ Preserving the environment
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Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Holly Black
Simon Pulse, 2004
One of My ALL TIME Favorites
+ Amazing book, one of my favorites!
I received Tithe as a gift soon after its publication and was immediately sucked in. Many books are hard to get into, with a lot of back story clumped at the beginning - Tithe is not one of them. There is plenty of action, emotion, danger and intrigue to keep you reading and guessing. The humans ...
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Skin Tight
Carl Hiaasen
Grand Central Publishing, 2005
ONE OF HIAASEN'S BEST BOOKS... AS GOOD AS THE 1ST TIME I READ
+ Carl Hiaasen - Skin Tight - great
+ Fun Read
+ funny Floridian capers
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The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta)
Patricia Cornwell
Berkley, 2007
Descriptive Forensic Thriller...
+ A solid Scarpetta mystery
+ No surprises ... just a thoroughly enjoyable forensic procedural investigation!
+ An Old Killer
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Deliver Us from Evil
Allen Lee Harris
Bantam, 1988
Favorite horror novel ever
In the interest of full disclosure I must admit that I know and greatly admire the author. However, that does not mean I can not be objective. Mr. Harris wrote a novel that scared me like no other, and yet the structure and symbolism were more like that often seen in great and classical works ...
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Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
Holly Black
Simon Pulse, 2006
Unique, Amazing, Fascinating, Raw
+ Improves With Age
+ Amazing read and yet...
+ Valiant
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Neverland
Douglas Clegg
Pocket, 1991
Dark, Sweet, Terrifying, Touching
+ Clegg Taps Into A Magical Time When Anything Can Happen ...
+ A good supernatural thriller involing childhood
+ A wonderful 'Clegg experience!'
+ One of Clegg's best
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Thunderhead
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Grand Central Publishing, 2000
The first of many for me by these authors...
+ One of P&C's best
+ kinda late in reading thunderhead...
+ southwest anasazi archeological adventure
+ Definitely a page turner
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Stormy Weather
Carl Hiaasen
Grand Central Publishing, 2001
Skink for President!
+ Wacky and Captive
+ Tops among over the top Hiassen satires
+ A Great Intro to Hiassen and Why I Love Florida
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Swan Song
Robert McCammon
Pocket, 1987
Please read this review if you are sceptical!!!
+ ONE OF THE BEST EVER!
+ A Must Read
+ Great Book
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Gone South
Robert McCammon
Pocket, 1993
Going going gone
+ This Is Good From All Directions
+ A freakishly good yarn from a great storyteller
+ One of the Best
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Brother Juniper's Bread Book
Br. Peter Reinhart
Running Press, 2005
A spiritual approach to bread
+ Awesome recipes! ...wordy book :>)
+ Zen & the Art of Baking
+ Peter Reinhart fan
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Double Whammy
Carl Hiaasen
Grand Central Publishing, 2005
An Easy Read
+ Very entertaining
+ He's Done it Again
+ Wonderfully funny even if you don't like fishing
+ Definitely worth the read!
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Three Complete Novels - Dean R. Koontz - A New Collection (Shattered/Whispers/Watchers)
Dean Koontz
Wings, 1992
A good place to start
+ Great Book!
+ Dean Koontz books
+ Some of his best ever!!
+ I loved this book!!!
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