Under My Roof (Soft Skull ShortLit)4 reviews Nick Mamatas Soft Skull Press, 2007 More Fun Than A Barrel Of Monkeys + Coming of age/nuclear standoff + Fantastic Coming-of-Age Story + The Full Monty would've been so much better with a nuclear gnome.             V. (Perennial Classics)76 reviews Thomas Pynchon Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 Thank God for the last chapter + An excellent first novel I like this book. After I read the last chapter I loved the thing. It's not the most compelling read as you're going through, and half of the time I was asking myself "why keep reading?"... Then I finished the book (more importantly the last chapter) and it was as if a switch had been flipped in ...             Inferno (Modern Library Classics)106 reviews Dante Modern Library, 2003 A powerful translation of a masterpiece + Nice balance + One of the Best Translations + Mandelbaum for beauty, Hollander for notes, Esolen for arguments + Sets the bar high for future B&N Classics             Dark Cities Underground17 reviews Lisa Goldstein Tor Books, 2000 Urban fantasy by a master storyteller. + What's going on under the ground?? + Tim Powers light + Take a subway ride through childhood mythic adventure...             Cthulhu Senryu1 review Nick Mamatas Prime Books, 2006 I am the first one/to review! Praise Cthulhu!/Pass the Azathoth! Nick Mamatas, Cthulhu Senryu (Prime, 2006) how shall I review this autograph collection from Move Under Ground? Buy it, or the Great Black Goat with a Thousand Young will devour your soul. *** ½             Kabbalah Month by Month: A Year of Spiritual Practice and Personal Transformation2 reviews Mindy Ribner Jossey-Bass, 2002 Enter the World of Kabbalah - Month by Month + A great monthly guide to Jewish multi dimensional practice Here you have an extraordinary priveledge to share the unique insights and perspective of Miriam Ribner's teachings. She offers her own perspective from her years as a therapist and as a student of Jewish mysticism from one of the 20th century's great teachers. You enter into each month learning ...             The Ivy Chronicles100 reviews Karen Quinn Viking Adult, 2005 Skip it. It's been a long time since I've disliked a protagonist as much as I hated Ivy Ames. While the premise of the book was intriguing (an insider's view into the cut-throat world of the Manhattan elite), my antipathy for Ivy overroad any hopes of my giving this book a good review. She continually ...             Oh Shit ! It's Jesus2 reviews Steve Hughes BookSurge Publishing, 2008 Refreshing! Highly recommended! + loved it The subtitle says it perfectly - "the relevance of Jesus without all the religious crap." This is a fascinating book, very easy and quick to read, and hard to put down. It feels like you're having a friendly conversation in a coffee shop... or maybe hiking with a friend on a trail... talking ...             Jack Haringa Must Die! Merricat Publications, 2008 Jack Haringa. The very name strikes fear in the hearts of the grammatically challenged. But fear not semicolon abusers and malapropists! The tables are turned in Jack Haringa Must Die!, which collects the very best Haringa death scenes and tales from... Jack Ketchum Christopher Golden Brian Keene Craig Shaw Gardner James A. Moore Laird Barron Nick Mamatas Mary SanGiovanni Lee ...             Diary as Fiction: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Turgenev's "Diary of a Superfluous Man" Jessica M. Natale Dissertation.com, 2000             Road From Hell1 review Gerard Houarner Necro Publications, 2007 And another good thing fades away... All things pass, but I'm sad to see Max go this way. Having had the ultimate makeover, he's now a hot young emo guy. The beast has been neutered, or at least tamed. Lee's reformed or retired. Max now has a mission from God, or rather Goddess, so there won't be any more recreational Maxification of ...             Dry: A Memoir253 reviews Augusten Burroughs Picador, 2004 Excellent story telling + One of his best + Very nice + Astounding + Every emotion under the martini glass!             Dry Spell: Tales of Thirst and Longing2 reviews Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers RMFW Press, 2004 Top notch anthology of excellent writers + Excellent collection! Eleven stories by eleven different writers capture this title perfectly. Everything from humor to horror to romance and irony can be found here, along with achingly bittersweet slices of life. If you like excellent writing, this one is recommended.             Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre6 reviews Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2005 I edited it. + A BIZARRE BUT THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE ANTHOLOGY + Stories of the strange and unusual + No cannibalism, but lots of great stories + An Admirable Effort from the New Master of the Grotesque             Rashi2 reviews Maurice Liber Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2006 Buy the Dybbuk Press Version Ok I have published Rashi and Merely Mary Ann at the same time, because I'll be publishing Michael Boatman's horror anthology and The Big Bow Mystery later this year and I want to devote as much time as possible to promotion of those books. In writing a review, I know that I have essentially ...             Queen of the Country dgk Goldberg Prime, 2008 This isn't your daddy's collection of dark fiction. In fact, it's your mama's. From the suicide bombers of Palestine to the whooping fans of NASCAR, Kelly Goldberg was the queen of the country where pink drinks were sacraments and everyone slept till noon. Read along with her tour, and find out the secrets behind the melungeon moon, the fate of Princess Di, and what it feels like to wake up next ...             The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible395 reviews A. J. Jacobs Simon & Schuster, 2007 insightful and fun + The Worlds Best "Non-Biblical" Bible Study Book Ever! + An awesome 1 year journey i bought this book, well after the buzz about it had subsided, because i'd heard such good things about it. and i was not disappointed. it was one of the more fun and thought-provoking non-fiction works i've read this year. the author is a self-described secular jew, and has lived his whole life ...             Mainspring26 reviews Jay Lake Tor Books, 2007 Epic journey in amazing world, but a major flaw + Overall: Wonderful Lake has created quite a world with Mainspring, and for the most part it works very well. I didn't find the 2nd half of the book NEARLY as tedious, slow, or aimless as some of the reviewers here. I was still interested and even engrossed all the way to the end. The conflict between Rational ...             Naked Lunch: The Restored Text239 reviews William S. Burroughs Grove Press, 2004 huh? + Beyond Good & Evil + "The man is never on time." + Brilliant             No Shit! There I Was (No Shit Series)2 reviews Michael Hodgson Globe Pequot, 1998 Made me laugh out loud + Tales of death and woe I guess it's because I know so many people like the ones in this book and because I've got my own stories like these that I found it a great read. Some of the pieces, like the story about the trip down the Cal Salmon, had me laughing out loud. People get worked, pulverised, and abused and they ...