Matter50 reviews Iain M. Banks Orbit, 2008 A few responses to particularly dumb criticisms of Matter + Not quite up to the standard of his other books + Great story Critic: Its a long book. Isn't that a bad thing. Me: Boring is bad. Long is not. This isn't boring. Critic: It doesn't push the boundaries of sci-fi, therefore its lame. Me: Its interesting, creative, and intelligent. Thus by definition its pushing the boundaries of sci-fi. ...             20th Century Ghosts45 reviews Joe Hill William Morrow, 2007 Genetics? + 20th Centry Ghosts Joe Hill + Also a great audiobook The last story in this collection, called "Voluntary Committal", is of the kind that I never get tired of - alternate universes juxtaposed with the normal harsh realities of everyday. Redemption and loss possible in every paragraph. If this story appeared in a Stephen King collection I would only ...             The Good Guy184 reviews Dean Koontz Bantam, 2007 THIS IS A GREAT BOOK + The Good Guy might just be a little too "goodie goodie" I have not read any Koontz for a while. This one caught my eye so I decided to order it. I have the hard copy. I couldn't put this book down. I loved the characters, the plot, the story and most of all the hero. From cover to cover i could not put this book down. By far one one of the best ...             The Outlaw Demon Wails (Rachel Morgan, Book 6)112 reviews Kim Harrison Eos, 2008 Loved it - and I almost gave up on Rachel before Book 6 + Interesting Twists + Hey! No Spoilers! (Beware new readers!) + Best book in the series yet!             No Dominion: A Novel25 reviews Charlie Huston Del Rey, 2006 Smart, sharp and gritty fun. + vampyre fan!! + Gritty and great! + The new drug in town + Wow...             Faces of Fear: A Novel21 reviews John Saul Ballantine Books, 2008 Faces of Fear by John Saul + Scary, But Could Have Been a Little Better + THE ENDING LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED! + Good Reading             Bloodline: A Repairman Jack Novel (Repairman Jack)37 reviews F. Paul Wilson Forge Books, 2007 One of the best in the series... + Solid Repairman Jack Novel + Series Just Keeps Getting Better Wilson is still going strong in his latest Repairman Jack book. If you like supernatural thrillers, like the X-files, you will love Repairman Jack. Not quite as much action as some of Wilsons other books, but the story more than makes up for this. It is a very hard book to put down.             The Dreaming Void (The Void Trilogy, Book 1)35 reviews Peter F. Hamilton Del Rey, 2008 Read the Dreams First + An epic saga of galactic proportions The Dreaming Void is actually 3 books under 1 cover. Book ONE continues with characters from the previous Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained series which takes place in our future -- which is about 1,000 years in their past. Book TWO is about the second dreamer who is unnamed but self-evident as ...             The Wheel of Darkness (Special Agent Pendergast)165 reviews Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing, 2007 Pendergast Saves the Human Race + Very interesting read. + Fantastic!! + Hard core - don't miss it!             Odd Thomas476 reviews Dean Koontz Bantam, 2006 What an interesting protagonist Odd is! + Koontz' best character + Excellent as always Book 1 is my favorite Odd Thomas book, to-date. Awesome story with a memorable character. I thought about Odd long after I put the book down, and it definitely made me want to read more. I started on Forever Odd (book 2) the same evening. Dean Koontz has created a very interesting character and ...             Firefly Rain (Discoveries)11 reviews Richard Dansky Wizards of the Coast Discoveries, 2008 Rural NC at its finest + Good Old Fashioned Ghost Story! + Haunting I think my favorite parts were the descriptions of the small town, Maryfield, and the people in it. Dansky really captures rural North Carolina in flux between encroaching technology and homogenization with its traditional (and quirky) community roots. The narrator is caught somewhere in between, ...             The Dark River (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 2)62 reviews John Twelve Hawks Doubleday, 2007 love this book + Keeps reader interested... Full of action + Love this book I loved this book, just like the first. Definitely amongst my all time favorites. Wake up people!             Night Witch30 reviews Jack Priest Bootleg Press, 2003 A Thrilling and Very Enjoyable Experience + Read the back cover first to get the proper context for what's going to happen... + A Priest of Horror + Spine Chilling Good             Thirteen76 reviews Richard K. Morgan Del Rey, 2007 Show me, don't tell me Very exciting premise here - in the not so distant future America has split along conservative and liberal lines into 2 separate countries and genetic experimentation has created a race of "super men" called 13's (genetic variation #13) who have either been locked up or exiled to the Mars colony. ...             Your Heart Belongs to Me Dean Koontz Bantam, 2008 From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all… At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry ...             Halting State55 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2007 Believable Near Future + Good Extrapolation about the Future This is what real SciFi is all about (believable futures). If a writer can convince me what they are writing about can really happen, I am hooked. I am going read more of Charles Stross.             In Odd We Trust56 reviews Queenie Chan, Dean Koontz Del Rey, 2008 IN ODD WE TRUST is not the best introduction to the characters of Pico Mundo + In Odd We Trust Dean Koontz's thoroughly enjoyable and readable Odd Thomas series gets the graphic novel treatment in the paperback IN ODD WE TRUST. The series has been a bestseller for Koontz for years, and here he fills in some of the missing details of Odd's life. IN ODD WE TRUST is a prequel, an original story ...             The Host: A Novel684 reviews Stephenie Meyer Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Beautiful Host + Suspense, love, and betrayal... + Interspecies Stockholm Syndrome No vampires appear in Meyer's latest novel, instead an alien species invades our planet and eventually the bodies of the human population. In the end most of these host lose their personality but not all. Such is the case of the young human female Melanie. She fights to keep her own identity in ...             The Dangerous Days of Daniel X77 reviews James Patterson Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Daniel X I found Daniel to me an exciting and page turning book. Very enjoyable and well worth it.             The Terror: A Novel223 reviews Dan Simmons Little, Brown and Company, 2007 an all-time favorite + Pretty good. + Fantastic story, and much of it true The funny part about this, is that I hesitated buying the book. The only book I had read from Dan Simmons was Darwin's blade, and I didnt like it at all. But after reading a positive review in USA Today I thought I'd give him another shot. Am I ever glad I did! Quite simply, maybe the best book ...