Recently Read: Dungeon Quest: Book One, by Joe Daly

I’m a big RPG nerd (surprise!)  I’ve always loved RPGs in any form:  Tabletop D&D (nerd wife actually has a D&D tattoo, lol – ok, it’s supposed to be my initials PD, but it looks kinda like DD), console RPGs (Japanese, western, strategy), MMORPG (I’ve played most of them).  There’s something about the questing and [...]

Recently Read: “Marked!” by Bob Bristow, or Rape and the Virgin Male

“He’d made one mistake – a big one – and it involved a woman  . . .” So reads the teaser text on “Marked!”, a 1961 Dell First Edition by Bob Bristow.  I read this on my recent business trip while the plane was taxiing and landing and I couldn’t use my Kindle (which is [...]

Recently Read: Shadow of the Wind

This is probably my favorite novel of all time.  I mean this without a hint of hyperbole.  It’s been so long since I’ve contemplated a statement like this that I am nervous about expressing it, but I believe it is true. Don’t even read this review just go out and get this book.  Don’t wait [...]

Recently Read: Pleasure Model

Wow.  Haven’t finished a book in awhile where I felt so conflicted afterwards.  Pleasure Model by Christopher Rowley is the first book to be published by Tor in their Heavy Metal Pulp line.  For those unfamiliar, the line is based off of the Heavy Metal graphic magazine that was the influence for a number of [...]

Recently Read: Expiration Date

I love Duane Swierczynski.  Not the man, I’ve never met him (although I hope to at a con sometime in the future).  No, I love his writing.  I’ve read just about every piece of fiction he’s written, from his crime novels to his comics.  And I think things just keep getting better. His newest is [...]

Recent Reads: Deadhouse Gates

I compare this favorably with my two favorite fantasy authors – George R.R. Martin and Scott Bakker. In fact, I think with the exception of Tolkein and Martin, I don’t think you can find such a richly developed fantasy world. This being my second reading, and the first time I read it back to back with the first volume, Gardens of the Moon, I can definitely say I got more out of it.