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[zombiemutts]

[urlhttp://www.amazon.com/Magazine-First-Written-Zombies-Winter/dp/B006V4UXB0/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328724275&sr=1-5] Z Magazine[/url] winter edition. 

[Lord Anubis]

I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in my Keene dislike.  Nothing against the guy, but I just think his books are ehhh and his endings are awful.  

I picked up The Rising year ago at Borders and hated it.  The one cool idea was revealed less than 25% into the book, the rest was every bad zombie cliche out there.  And I thought the end was an incredibly lame cop-out.

A few months ago a friend of mine gave me The Conquerer Worms and I figured I shouldn't judge Keene off one book.  So now I'm judging him off two.  The idea was really neat, but the further I got into it the more the book felt meandering and unfocused.  It was another lame, cop-out ending that accomplished nothing.

There will be no third book.  

[Bobbie]

Hah!  I thought I was alone, too, Peter and Rakie.  I'm glad to see others cropping out of the wood work!

I remembering liking The Rising--didn't love it.   It got me through a few nights, entertained me to a point and I took it for what it was.  But sitting here right now, I can't remember one damned thing about the book.

[Rakie]

my big dislike about his books is the overriding sense of DOOM.  I still stand by my comment that doom is all well and good, but sometimes you need a teeny bit of happy to break up the unrelenting futility of pointless existence, otherwise it all gets a bit samey.  Even shit sometimes has peanuts in it. 

[Matthew]

Even shit sometimes has peanuts in it. 

I may have to use this as a sig file!

[dgsutter]

The Final Detail by Harlan Coben. My least favorite of the Myron Bolitar series yet.

[Thom Brannan]

Z Magazine winter edition.

fixed.

[zombiemutts]

Z Magazine winter edition.

fixed.

hey thank you!

[Rakie]

Even shit sometimes has peanuts in it. 

I may have to use this as a sig file!

  I've no idea who said it originally, i sure it was someone far smarter than me. 

[heavens2kadonka]

Collectivist Economic Planing With F.A. Hayek, L.V. Mises, N.G. Pierson, George Halm and Enrico Barone.

The shining star in this collection was N.G. Pierson, whose essay on value in a socialist community (1902) was exceptional: being accessible and even entertaining while presenting his ideas. 

For the rest: Hayek was so-so, Halm was a snore, and Barone was mathematical to a fault. 

Van

[Lord Anubis]

Dracula Unbound by Brian Aldiss

An interesting take on some decidedly non-sparkly vampires.  For a book written in the early nineties (or late eighties, I suppose) it has a very seventies feel to it.  The technology, the people, the relations between men and women, the attitudes toward sex, science, and religion. 

Interesting, but it's tough to call it a good book.  Not bad, but despite numerous elements (including a relativistic time train that I couldn't help but picture like Doc Brown's at the end of Back to the Future III) it just kind of sits there.   

[Lane Adamson]

Dracula Unbound by Brian Aldiss

For a book written in the early nineties (or late eighties, I suppose) it has a very seventies feel to it.

This was a follow-up to his Frankenstein Unbound, most definitely a 70s book in both attitudes and time of publication (1973).  FU is one of those books that seems generally to be either loved or hated; there's very little apathy toward it.  (Although my own personal opinion was more "meh" than anything.)

[Lord Anubis]

Yep.  I read Frankenstein Unbound after seeing the Corman movie (which I have an odd fondness for--mostly because of the scenes between Raul Julia and John Hurt) and picked up Dracula Unbound when I saw it in the bookstore.

And I agree with you, Lane, they're both very much... ummm, books.  On paper.

[Lord Anubis]

Frankenstein Unbound, because we were just talking about.

The weirdest thing about this is the number of improvements Roger Corman made when he adapted it.  I'm not sure how Aldiss missed some of the obvious parallels, and I'd love to know if he stole them from Corman for Dracula Unbound or if Corman saw DU and stole them for this story.

The other thing is how ahead of its time this book is.  Not the idea so much as the writing, the style, the characters.  Which is doubly odd since Dracula is so retro... 

[Strat333%]

The Demon Dead by Arthur M Wyatt. It has 3 different kinds of zombies plus a little humor. It's a different take on the zombie story. Great book with really good character development. Something that is missing in most books of the genre. I actually stumbled on it by accident and I can't find anything else by this author.

http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Dead-Arthur-M-Wyatt/dp/1466265515/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329786932&sr=1-1

Now reading Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry