You Suck: A Love Story132 reviews Christopher Moore William Morrow, 2007 Nosferattitude + Undead need a good laugh, too You Suck is the sequel to The Author Guy's foray into humorous, bizarro vamp-lit, and it's just as zany and enjoyable as its predecessor, Bloodsucking Fiends. I won't go too much into the story except to say that C. Thomas Flood is now forced to accept his newly acquired pale force, a first ...             A Dirty Job: A Novel57 reviews Christopher Moore HarperCollins, 2007 Someone has to do it + A Riot! + Best book I've read in a long time + Born-again Reader             9Tail Fox5 reviews Jon Courtenay Grimwood Night Shade Books, 2007 Letter to the Publisher + A Strange Alternate Reality, Near-Future Tale-- But Fascinating + Great Read Man. I traveled from Southern Arizona to Wash D.C. today and spent my time with Mr. Grimwood. Thankfully, I had a two hour layover in Dallas, where we sat and sweated on the tarmac. I say thankfully, because I had such a damn good book with me, I didn't even realize I was being held hostage by the ...             The Scarlet Plague4 reviews Jack London Echo Library, 2007 The Way We Were + A nostalgic memory + a child's great first science fiction story. Sixty years after a plague killed billions of people, an old man tries to convey to his three grandchildren what the world was once like so long ago. The cultured, civilized world of mass communication and technology abruptly gave way to a primitive, savage world of cruelty and barbarism. The ...             The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches)374 reviews Anne Rice Ballantine Books, 1993 Witches.......incredible book......rich tapestry + You will never forget "The Witching Hour" ! + Be-witching + Like Harry Potter but for adults + Pretty good.             The Inheritor ("Light")19 reviews Marion Zimmer Bradley Tor Books, 1997 the devil is in the details + Mysterious.. I love this book and can't believe the bad reviews it has received here. This is a modern gothic/dark romance, and perhaps not for everyone. If you like Barbara Michaels modern gothics, or Mary Stewart's Thornyhold, you'll like this. MZB builds on her knowledge of San Francisco, and puts a wealth ...             The City, Not Long After4 reviews Pat Murphy Puffin, 2006 The spirit of San Francisco lives on + Life changing book + How would artists fight a war? + A pick for any who missed this winner             Sarah Canary25 reviews Karen Joy Fowler Plume, 2004 WONDERFULLY WRITTEN STORY + A cypher. + Sarah Canary Its a story about a Chinese man named Chin Ah Kin who works in a Labor camp in the 1870s and a mysterious woman wanders into the Chinese labor camp and they befriend each other. She mysteriously disappears befriending people on the way. This is a wonderfully written story about cultural ...             Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book11 reviews Maxine Hong Kingston Vintage, 1990 Memoir of a Playwright Among Ghosts? + Fantastic + Some Gems, Lots of Murk. It is hard to believe that "Tripmaster Monkey: His ... Book" is by the same author who wrote "The Woman Warrior." Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" is her first "novel" (though by no means her first foray into fiction), and it is easy to see why there was a nine year gap between this book ...             Virtual Light67 reviews William Gibson Spectra, 1994 w0w + Bridge series + Very Satisfying Story If you are a science fiction fan or a futurist of any sort or just like fiction, you need to read this book. I could write a pious review of the book or praise the author to the heavens, both would be justified. However it's very simple, you need to read this book and see how many people have ...             The Very Bloody Marys4 reviews M. Christian Harrington Park Press, 2007 It's Not Easy Being Undead + Delightful and original + Off-beat vampire tale + Vespa Riding Vampires             Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ...19 reviews Philip K. Dick Library of America, 2007 A Great Introduction to the World of Philip K. Dick + Great Volume of Sci-Fi + Revernt treatment of science fiction classics + A "religious preoccupation" + Welcome to the dark, thrilling, paranoid world of PKD             Tea with the Black Dragon32 reviews R. A. MacAvoy e-reads.com, 2001 Oolong tea + "Dragons are not social by nature. (I am the exception.)" + Tea With the Black Dragon + Style without substance             Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-823322 reviews Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman Running Press Kids, 2006 Stewart/Weisman/Brigg's Book... From calling phone numbers to checking evidence, playing detective is the most fun of Cathy's Book. The reader becomes Emma, Cathy's best friend, who is left with a journal filled with numbers, evidence, and a story that will blow your mind!             Carlucci 3-in17 reviews Richard Paul Russo Ace Trade, 2003 Cyberpunk - the real thing + Great Police Books; So-So SciFi Books + I'll bet he was glad to get this out of his system. Cyberpunk genre has a lot of fantasy. This trio of books doesn't - it has a very probable reality. Grittier than any other cyberpunk you'll find (Gibson, Sterling, Stephenson) it doesn't pull punches to give you a warm fuzzy. What's going on in the real world now - this is a real outcome. Starts ...             Haunted San Francisco: Ghost Stories From the City's Past2 reviews Heritage House Publishers, 2004 Fascinating Compilation + Providing over two dozen spanning over 150 years While some may complain that HAUNTED SAN FRANCISCO is a misbegotten salmagundi, blending fact and fiction in a manner deleterious to them both, to me it is a splendid concordance of the ghosts which every sensible person will admit still haunt our city. Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Gelett Burgess, ...             All Tomorrow's Parties131 reviews William Gibson Berkley, 2003 Oddly Interesting Story + "And what shall she do with Thursday's rags / When Monday comes around" A very odd story. There are shifts of location that sort of take you by surprise and then there are the trips through a computer land. Eventually you understand that this is a future world. It is an odd jumble of events that create the interest. At first there is the odd character, Laney, who ...             Dark Ladies: 'Conjure Wife' and 'Our Lady of Darkness'9 reviews Fritz Leiber Orb Books, 1999 CONJURE WIFE REVIEW ONLY + Liked Conjure Wife better than Our Lady of Darkness + Two seminal horror classics for the price of one + Two Horror Classics             Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion8 reviews Richard Kadrey Night Shade Books, 2007 very interesting + Wow! + Not Free SF Reader + love it,             Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)208 reviews Richard K. Morgan Del Rey, 2006 Spectacularly good SF + Impressive first novel + Sci fi noir at its best + futuristic Chandler