Books Read - 11/09
1. The Gates by John Connolly
This was a book I had to review for Amazon and holy shit was it hilarious. Demons are coming to Earth to destroy humanity…but things just don’t seem to go according to plan. One of the best books I’ve read this year. Seriously, pick this up as soon as you can. It’s like Douglas Adams doing the end of the world with demons rather than aliens.
PAGE COUNT: 296
2. Fade Out by Rachel Caine.
This is the 7th book in the Morganville Vampires series. I don’t know why I keep reading these. probably because they are only seven bucks and I know all the characters. The series turned to shit after the third book but it keeps having some decent moments. Living organic computer goes on a homicidal rampage and crazy goth chick tries to make a vampire reality tv show is not one of them.
PAGE COUNT: 239
3. The Merlot Murders by Ellen Crosby
The third book in this series, The Bourdeaux Betrayal was one of the first books Amazon had me review for them. I really enjoyed it and I finally had the chance to read the first in this series set in the Virigina Wine Country, which is only an hour so away from where I live. This book is a bit more convoluted and rough than the third but I still enjoyed it and seeing the origins of the characters. The book was about 100 pages too long and things were really drawn out with a lame ending and reason for the murder(s), but the author that would be realized in the third book. Eventually I’ll read the second to see how that fared. Call this a thumbs in the middle here.
PAGE COUNT: 340
4. What’s A Ghoul To Do? by Victoria Laurie
This was an awful mystery about a chick that can talk to ghosts and help them travel to THE OTHER SIDE. She also ends up solving a murder mystery by talking to the ghosts of dead people. It was like a very crappy Pushing Daisies. The worst part was this awful character who wasn’t from the US who the author decided to give the running gage of using the wrong word in a phrase on nearly every page. God this thing was a grueling mess.
PAGE COUNT: 281
Page Count for 11/10: 1156
Page Count Total for 2009 So Far: 15905
Barely made it this month, but that was due to a shitload of video games needing to be reviewed, a shitload of freelance writing and a lot of telling kids that Eddie Guerrero is probably in hell due to all that lying and cheating and stealing.
I’ll definitely beat the 2006 page count though.
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