how is this?

i've read it before - remember :)

i remember it being ok (considering i'm not a fan of horror fiction)
so far - it's ok again ... nothing to write home about ..good for killing time while eating my morning cereal :)

Well, the menopausal brain forgot that you read it before! :D Hey, I could have gone on Who Wants to be a Superhero and been called "The Amazing Menopausal Brain"! :D

well, he suggested i buy it because it's his first novel (i bought this and one other from him)

i'm about 100 pages in and i have to say it's pretty impressive for a first work.

he does one thing i like - a lot .. he doesnt feel the need to provide every little detail to describe the characters .. he builds a framework via the actions of the characters and lets you fill in the blanks yourself.

he also avoids a lot of other cliches i see in horror fiction all the time .. painfully obvious forshadowing ... silly characters ...

so far its pretty good ..

just finished Ketchum's Off Season (the uncut version)

excellent writing considering that this is his first novel ..

it has the same feel and flow as Last House or I Spit ..
intense, brutal, no frills.

no cliches either .. impossible to know how this one will end at any time in the novel..

Handling and Restraint in Introduction to Veterinary Technology

interview with the vampire - anne rice

Clive Barker-The Hellbound Heart.
Great story. One of the few occasions where I like the story and the movie equally.

Im fighting my way through Treasure Island by Robert Lousis Stevenson.

I really dont like novels like this...normally I would have given up on it, but I have to read it for a stage version that Im in this fall. Our play is gonna rock, but God the book is boring.

Oh, if anyone is famiulliar with the book...Im Dr. Livesay:)

Dark Delicacies

it's a horror anthology that won the Stoker award this year - great shorts from Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Steve Niles, Whitlry Strieber, Richard Matheson and others.

also reading Education of a Felon by Edward Bunker