Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2011

Pure Distraction



Pure Distraction
Carolina Barbour | 2008-01-01 00:00:00 | Siren Publishing | 212 | Fiction
Ms. Barbour has written what is classified as an erotic futuristic romance but I would also like to point out that there are a few suspenseful twists and turns, and a "whodunit" flavor to this erotic offering. Pure Distraction is just that, a huge distraction if you want to get anything else done while reading it. I found that Ms. Barbour did a great job in not only setting up this alternate society but also showing both how it was supposed to work and how it changed. Readers should note that there are also a few M/M encounters as part of the storyline. Overall, I found the world Ms. Barbour created to be intriguing and I hope she hopes to use it in future adventures. Pure Distraction is a great summer read, but make sure you have time to sit and read it all, as you will find you keep going back to it until you finish it.
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Madmans Dance



Madmans Dance
Jana G. Oliver | 2008-10-01 00:00:00 | Dragon Moon Press | 352 | Fiction
History is melting down, courtesy of a multi-century plot to bring the Transitive shape-shifters to power. Only Time Rover Jacynda Lassiter can set things back on course, but that will be difficult. She’s been abandoned in a Victorian insane asylum with no memory of who she is.
Her two Victorian friends are facing equal difficulties: Dr. Alastair Montrose is caught between his duty to uncover the truth and powerful foes who wish it buried. Once lauded as a hero, Detective-Sergeant Jonathon Keats is on the run, framed for a woman’s heinous murder. Keats’ arch enemy, Desmond Flaherty, can prove him innocent, but the Fenian isn’t about to come forward, not with the life of his only daughter on the line.
If the anarchist’s cache of explosives ignites the biggest conflagration since the Great Fire of 1666, the future will change. There will be no sanctuary from the Madman’s Dance.
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The Ray Bradbury Chronicles Volume 5



The Ray Bradbury Chronicles Volume 5
Ray Bradbury | 2002-01-01 00:00:00 | | 34 | Fiction
Ray Bradbury, the galaxy's master storyteller, presents a collection of his fantasy, science fiction, and horror tales, each adapted by one of today's top graphic story illustrators. This fifth volume includes A Piece of Wood, adapted by Mark Chiarello, The Aqueduct, by Bruce Jensen, plus the classic adaptation of The Flying Machine by Bernard Krigstein.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Legacy



Legacy
Jeanne C. Stein | 2008-01-01 00:00:00 | Ace | 304 | Fiction
Anna has struggled to adapt to her supernatural status while clinging to the vestiges of her humanity. Now she must deal with her legacy. The sinister vampire who transformed her is dead, and Anna is entitled to his vast fortune. But a predatory werewolf comes forward, claiming the inheritance as her own—and she’ll kill to get what she wants most: blood and money.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Sputnik Sweetheart



Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami | 2002-01-01 00:00:00 | | 240 | Fiction
Twenty two year old, Sumire is in love for the first time with a woman seventeen years her senior. But, whereas Miu is a glamorous and successful older woman with a taste for classical music and fine wine, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Jack Kerouac novel. Surprised that she might, after all, be a lesbian, Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend, K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire and should she ever tell Miu how she feels about her? K, a primary school teacher, is used to answering questions, but what he most wants to say to Sumire is "I love you." He consoles himself by having an affair with the mother of one of his pupils. But, when a desperate Miu calls him out of the blue from a sunny Greek island and asks for his help, he soon discovers that all is not as it seems and something very strange has happened to Sumire.
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The Case of the Fenced-in Woman


The Case of the Fenced-in Woman
Earl Stanley Gardner | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | | 1 | Fiction
The Case of the Fenced-in Woman
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Girls That Growl



Girls That Growl
Mari Mancusi | 2007-01-01 00:00:00 | Berkley Trade | 256 | Fiction
Third in Mancusi's hip, sassy vampire series, featuring the heroine of Stake That!

She's a vampire. She's also a vampire slayer. (It's a long story.) And now Rayne McDonald, Goth girl, has to carry out her most deviant mission yet: trying out for the cheerleading squad.

Rayne already has enough on her plate: her twin keeps whining about whether or not to go all the way; her mom's boyfriend is moving in; and her man, Jareth, who's now allowed out in the sun, has turned from a dark, brooding hottie vamp into a surfer dude.

But this vampire slayer is still on the clock, and she has a new assignment. A member of the football team has disappeared-and her bosses at Slayer Inc. think the cheerleaders had something to do with it. Now they want her to infiltrate the squad and get the dirt. But first, she'll need an extreme prep makeover. If only they'd let her wear fishnets under that revolting uniform.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Death into Life


Death into Life
Olaf Stapledon | 1946-01-01 00:00:00 | | 1 | Fiction
A bomber is killed in battle along with all of his companions; but something wakes in his dying, which is first a spirit bomber-crew, then the spirit of all those killed in battle, then the spirit of man, the cosmos and the Universal Spirit.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Q & A: A Novel; also published as Slumdog Millionaire



Q & A: A Novel; also published as Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup | 2005-07-26 00:00:00 | Scribner | 336 | Fiction
When Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphaned, uneducated waiter from Mumbai, wins a billion rupees on a quiz show, he finds himself thrown in jail. (Unable to pay out the prize, the program's producers bribed local authorities to declare Ram a cheater.) Enter attractive lawyer Smita Shah, to get Ram out of prison and listen to him explain, via flashbacks, how he knew the answers to all the show's questions. Indian diplomat Swarup's fanciful debut is based on a sound premise: you learn a lot about the world by living in it (Ram has survived abandonment, child abuse, murder). And just as the quiz show format is meant to distill his life story (each question prompts a separate flashback), Ram's life seems intended to distill the predicament of India's underclass in general. Rushdie's Midnight's Children may have been a model: Ram's brash yet innocent voice recalls that of Saleem Sinai, Rushdie's narrator, and the sheer number of Ram's near-death adventures represents the life of the underprivileged in India, just as Saleem wore a map of India, quite literally, on his face. But Swarup's prose is sometimes flat and the story's picaresque form turns predictable. Ram is a likable fellow, but this q&a with him, though clever, grows wearying.
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Friday, March 4, 2011

Conversion



Conversion
S.C. Stephens | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | S.C. Stephens | 387 | Fiction
Emma is happy. She's got a promising career in front of her, great friends, and a pretty amazing family. But her social life has been a little lacking lately. That's when fate stepped in, and crashed her into a tall, dark and handsome man. Sure, he has his secrets...don't we all, and, yeah, maybe his secrets are a little more unusual than most - like he's a partial vampire who can walk around during the day, but also enjoys a little plasma nightcap now and again - but to Emma, he's single, successful, and an extraordinary gentleman. That makes up for a lot. Of course, his condition is a bit more serious than he first lets on, and living a life with him will require some sacrifices that most just aren't willing to make. Will she? Is love enough to compensate for a life that will never be anywhere near the realm of normalcy? But then again...what's normal anyway?
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Vampirates 3: Blood Captain



Vampirates 3: Blood Captain
Justin Somper | 2008-01-01 00:00:00 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 576 | Fiction
As fans of the Vampirates series know, nothing is quite as it seems when Vampirates and pirates are involved, so twins Connor and Grace have to keep up their guards. But with every new challenge pulling them farther apart, it seems that the time has finally come for the twins to explore their separate fates.

Grace, unable to forget the blindness she caused her Vampirate friend Lorcan, chooses to journey with him to see if his sight can be restored. As for Connor, he must endure the latest addition to the Diablo crew: Captain Wrathe's awful nephew, who seems to dislike him from the very start. Will both twins find success, and what will it take to bring them back together?
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Michael Crichton. 13 books (PDF)


Michael Crichton. 13 books (PDF)
Michael Crichton | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | | 1 | Fiction
List:
Airframe.pdf
Congo.pdf
Disclosure.pdf
Eaters of the Dead.pdf
Jurassic Park.pdf
Prey.pdf
Rising Sun.pdf
Sphere.pdf
The Andromeda Strain.pdf
The Great Train Robbery.pdf
The Lost World.pdf
The Terminal Man.pdf
Timeline.pdf

John Michael Crichton (born October 23, 1942) is an American author, film producer, film director, and television producer. His best-known works are techno-thriller novels, films and television programs. His works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background.

Jurassic Park is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton that was published in 1990. Often considered a cautionary tale on unconsidered biological tinkering in the same spirit as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it uses the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its philosophical implications to explain the collapse of an amusement park showcasing certain genetically recreated dinosaur species. It was adapted into a film in 1993.

The Lost World is a techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, published in 1995 by Ballantine Books. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) was issued in New York in 1996. It is a sequel to his earlier novel Jurassic Park. Like Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name, Crichton's novel concerns an expedition to an isolated Central American location where dinosaurs roam - though in this case, the dinosaurs were recreated by genetic engineering, rather than surviving from antiquity.

Airframe is a novel by Michael Crichton, first published in hardback edition in 1996 and as a paperback edition in 1997 by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice-president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and fifty-six injured.
In Airframe as in most of his novels, Crichton uses the false document literary device, presenting numerous technical documents to create a sense of authenticity. Several real-life incidents are also explored; the accident itself is closely modeled on a 1993 accident aboard a McDonnell-Douglas MD-11.

Congo. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds in the dense rain forest of Congo.

Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, released in 1994. The novel is set in a fictional high tech company, just before the beginning of the dot-com economic boom. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders, and his battle against unfounded allegations of sexual harassment.

Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922 is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton. Crichton explains in an appendix that the book was based on two sources. The first three chapters are a retelling of Ibn Fadlan's personal account of his actual story journey northwards and his experiences with and observations of the Rus', the early Russian people. The remainder is based upon the story of Beowulf.

Prey is a techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton first published in hardback edition in November 2002 and as a paperback edition in November 2003 by Harper Collins. According to IMDB there will be a film adaptation due out in 2007; details are unavailable. Like Jurassic Park, the novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology. The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing.

Sphere is a science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1987. It was made into the film Sphere in 1998. The novel follows a psychologist named Norman Johnson, who is called upon by the U.S. Navy to join a team of scientists ass
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Dragon Wytch



Dragon Wytch
Yasmine Galenorn | 2008-07-01 00:00:00 | | 0 | Fiction
In Seattle half-fae half human Camille D'Artigo smells the pixie dust that suddenly floods the air inside her Indigo Crescent bookstore when a unicorn says hello to her; followed by a hostile goblin, Sawberry fae and bugbear who demand that Feddrah Dahns turn over the pixie or else. Camille fires bolts at the goblin and bugbear while Feddrah knocks out the fae. A car runs over the bugbear while the fae escapes and the goblin is tied up. Camille calls the boyfriend of her were-cat sister Delilah police detective Chase to clean up the mess; the goblin escapes.
When Camille's other sister Menolly the vampire joins them as well as Iris the priestess, Feddrah explains that his aide Mistletoe the pixie carried an item to deliver to her, but the three thugs interceded. Mistletoe regained the item, the powerful horn of the rare black unicorn. Meanwhile a Raksasas Persian Demon is apparently in town causing further havoc while Smoky the dragon arrives to remind Camille she owes him a week of sex, but has need for her to talk with Morgaine who has camped in his barrow before he makes the fae his lunch. Camille fears Morgaine might be trying to raise the former Seelie Queen Titania or the former Unseelie Queen Aeval for some purpose. Rounding out the visits is one of Camille's two lovers Trillian, but her other Morio remains missing. However, her ultimate fear is that the demon Shadow Wing will find the seals that keep the portals closed and be able to enter earthside and otherworld destroying both.
The various types of paranormal species seem genuine in the Seattle setting. The action never slows down for a moment and although the story line builds on threads from the previous "sisters of the moon" books, DRAGON WYTCH can stand alone. The climax is quite a shocker making the fascinating tale even more spellbinding even if readers need a scorecard to keep track of the myriad of key players supporting the prime star.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Tales Of Terror And Mystery



Tales Of Terror And Mystery
Arthur Conan Doyle | 1996-01-01 00:00:00 | | 204 | Fiction
The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humor, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imaginative of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned and tragic facts which reinforce the statement. Though the assertions contained in it are amazing and even monstrous, it is nonetheless forcing itself upon the general intelligence that they are true, and that we must readjust our ideas to the new situation. This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

1632



1632
Eric Flint | 2000-02-01 00:00:00 | Baen | 504 | Fiction
In Flint's novel of time travel and alternate history, a six-mile square of West Virginia is tossed back in time and space to Germany in 1632, at the height of the barbaric and devastating Thirty Years' War. Repelling marauding mercenaries and housing German refugees are only the first of many problems the citizens of the tiny new U.S. face, problems including determining who shall be a citizen. In between action scenes and descriptions of technological military hardware, Flint handles that problem and other serious ethical questions seriously and offers a double handful of memorable characters: a Sephardic Jewish family that establishes commercial and marital ties with the Americans, a cheerleader captain turned lethal master sniper, a schoolteacher and an African American doctor who provide indispensable common sense and skill, a German refugee who is her family's sole protector, and, not least, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Not, perhaps, as elegant as some time-traveling alternate histories, Flint's is an intelligent page-turner nevertheless
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Alice I Have Been: A Novel



Alice I Have Been: A Novel
Melanie Benjamin | 2010-01-12 00:00:00 | | 0 | Fiction
This was a wonderful, poignant, heart-breaking book that will surely mean something to anyone who read Lewis Carroll's works in their youth. The "real" story, largely documented, of Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves unfolds in a first-person perspective, targeting three significant moments in her long life--her childhood encounters with C.L. Dodgson (Carroll) at ages 7 to 11, her young adulthood and ill-fated royal romance, and her later years of great strength and personal tragedy during and after World War I. While the decades-long narrative jumps may seem jarring at first, Benjamin provides plenty of flashbacks to flesh out the narrative. This approach provides the reader with plenty of tantalizing mini-mysteries that are resolved as the story moves forward, piece by piece.
And what emerges is a beautiful, tragic portrait of a literary inspiration and her enigmatic creator. Dodgson, so often judged by modern moral standards, comes across quite well in this novel, and I was very pleased to see that, by focusing solely on Alice's recollections, he remains shrouded in mystery, at least until a partial revelation in the novel's final pages. Naturally, of course, a large portion of the novel is devoted to the genuine question of his feelings towards Alice, made even more difficult to interpret today thanks to missing pages in Dodgson's famous diary (though this is not mentioned in the novel). All in all, I greatly enjoyed this story and highly recommend it.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Simplicissimus, The German Adventurer



Simplicissimus, The German Adventurer
Hans Jakob Christof von Grimmelshausen | 2009-03-01 00:00:00 | Univ Tennessee Press; 1st Edition | 440 | Fiction
John C. Osborne’s hitherto unpublished translation, Simplicissimus , The German Adventurer, by Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, is now available to an English-speaking audience worldwide. A searing coming to terms with the Thirty Years’ War and the chaos that it drew in its wake, this early novel is arguably the most important German literary work of the seventeenth century.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet



The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
Arturo Perez-Reverte | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Putnam Adult | 384 | Fiction
The terrific Captain Diego Alatriste series continues with "The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet." For me, this was one of the best books in the string. Besides the expected informed commentary on the decline of the Spanish empire, 17th Century court politics and early Spanish literature, this novel has an unusually good plot, with enough uncertainty to keep the reader interested to the last page.

The Inigo Balboa narrator/character grows in voice and interest as his passion for one of Alatriste's arch enemies grows from puppy love to the real, carnal thing; and as he is accepted as a young adult by the rest of the cast of characters.

Author Perez-Reverte's great strength in these books (in my opinion) is his delivery of a range of characters that seem authentic, even in their extremes of heroism or villainy. The good guys are both principled and honorable (by their own standards) men and women, but have no compunction about killing or selling their virtue when duty, honor or upper mobility requires it. The black hats are also just acting according their own ends-justify-means standards.

"The Cavalaier in the Yellow Doublet" has plenty of snap and zing for any reader of action novels, and enough intelligence, wit and interesting social and political history to satisfy readers looking for something more complex. Excellent book. Recommended.
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Monday, February 14, 2011

Sullivan's Travels


Sullivan's Travels
David Murphy | 2006-05-28 00:00:00 | David Murphy | 449 | Fiction
When Jack Sullivan took on the end run to Mercury, he figured he was in for three of the longest, dullest months of his career as a merchant space hauler. He figured wrong. When his aging bucket of rust, the Bogart, strikes an alien vessel in deep space, it triggers a chain of events that will propel Sullivan out of his own universe and onto the magical plains of Elysium. Join Jack on the ride of his life, in a battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of an entire universe. From the skies above Elysium, to the barren plains of the Fold, Sullivan's Travels is an old-fashioned adventure story, full of action and romance. It combines traditional science-fiction with fantasy to deliver a cliff-hanging, page-turning read.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Thomas Harris. The Silence of the Lambs and other books (LIT, HTML)


Thomas Harris. The Silence of the Lambs and other books (LIT, HTML)
Thomas Harris | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | | 0 | Fiction
List:
Black Sunday.lit
Hannibal.lit
Red Dragon.lit
The Silence Of The Lambs.lit
hannibal.html
redragon.html
slambs.html

Thomas Harris (born 1940) is an American author of crime novels, most notably The Silence of the Lambs, which was made into a film of the same title starring Jodie Foster as trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins in an Oscar-winning portrayal of serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. As of 2007, Harris has published four novels featuring Lecter and one other. All of his novels have been adapted into a film, with six films being based of his books (Red Dragon has been adapted twice).

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature sociopathic psychiatrist and cannibal Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. In the novel, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is sent to see the imprisoned Lecter in order to ask his expert advice on catching a serial killer given the name Buffalo Bill, who is abducting women and skinning them.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character appearing in four novels by author Thomas Harris and their film adaptations. The American Film Institute calls Lecter (as portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins) the most memorable villain in film history. Lecter is a brilliant and cultured psychiatrist who is also a cannibalistic serial murderer. Even though Lecter is well known professionally by medical institutions and medical journalists, he is more commonly known by his nickname "Hannibal the Cannibal".

The first book of the Hannibal Lecter series, Red Dragon, was published in 1981. It was filmed in 1986 under the title Manhunter. A second adaptation was released in 2002 under the original title of Red Dragon. The sequel to Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, was published in 1988, and filmed in 1991. The next installment in the series, Hannibal, was published in 1999, and filmed in 2001. The latest in the series, Hannibal Rising, was published in 2006 and its film adaptation has just been released.

Lecter was played by Brian Cox in Manhunter (though he was named "Lecktor" in that film), by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon and Hannibal, and by Aaron Thomas and Gaspard Ulliel in the prequel Hannibal Rising.
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