© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-craigsbookclub Recent reviews written by member craigsbookclub en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_297876491908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - "Don't give me this crap about I don't deserve nothin' because I only been working a year or so.... You might as well try to tell me the guy that's been in the Army longest oughta be Chief of Staff, or the guy's been in politics longest oughta be... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~297876491908 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:30:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_297876491908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_296287768196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - I am as tired as anyone of average, garden-variety vampire novels. But anyone who has read Richard Laymon knows that he never writes anything average. Whether each novel is below- or above-average is certainly up for debate (and there are glimpses of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~296287768196 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:13:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_296287768196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_296276823684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Before the announcement of his career-spanning short story collection Madman Stan and Other Stories, I had never heard of the late author Richard Laymon. But the minimal research I did after that informed me that he was one to look out for, especially... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~296276823684 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:07:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_296276823684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_296276233860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - "He pulled the straight shooter from his lips, torturing himself with anticipation as he watched a tiny tendril of crack smoke waver from the mouth end of the pipe. The scent of it excited him more than the sight of a naked woman as he watched the crack... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~296276233860 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:01:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_296276233860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_292781592196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - "Baroque: Elaborately or grotesquely ornate; whimsical, bizarre." -- Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Fifth Edition Yeah, I really had to look it up. Prior to the trial by fire that was my exposure to author Steve Beard's Meat Puppet Cabaret, I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~292781592196 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:20:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_292781592196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_292331753092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - If anyone was going to get me to read a sword-and-sorcery tale about a vampire -- two subgenres that I feel have just about been beaten to death -- it would be Douglas Clegg. Ever since reading his short story collection, The Nightmare Chronicles... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~292331753092 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:14:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_292331753092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_292314386052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - The Necromancer (also available in paperback as a bonus with The Attraction) is a terrific prequel to author Douglas Clegg's Harrow House series. In it, Justin Gravesend (who built the house and is the source of its bad energy) tells in his own words the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~292314386052 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:09:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_292314386052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_292313730692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - The year is 1926, and Ethan Gravesend has just inherited Harrow House -- the Watch Point, New York, home of his grandfather Justin Gravesend (who tells the story of his own early years in The Necromancer). Called Nightmare House by the local newspapers... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~292313730692 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:02:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_292313730692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_287833886340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - This story of a husband's retribution toward his wife's rapist doesn't get the recognition it deserves. With nonintrusive direction from Otto Preminger that puts you right in the courtroom; a jazzy piano- and trumpet-based score from Duke Ellington (who... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~287833886340 Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:40:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_287833886340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_287833624196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Damara Ruschmann has a strange and wondrous power: the ability to make people's thoughts real. When she was younger, it was less powerful and just seemed to affect her family (though she carries the guilt of her brother's death and her father's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~287833624196 Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:34:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_287833624196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_287833427588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - This eighth entry of the series of historical mysteries where Max Allan Collins places his private eye Nathan Heller within real-life cases is the first one that I haven't loved. That is not to say that Damned in Paradise is not good; it is just not as... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~287833427588 Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:30:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_287833427588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_287832641156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Kids want a savior and don't need a fake. I want to be elected. We're all gonna rock to the rules that I make. I want to be elected. --Alice Cooper, "Elected" "Maybe you don't know your friends as well as you think you do," Betsy said. Patrick... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~287832641156 Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:25:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_287832641156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280769891972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Poetry is subjective. It is probably the most subjective form of creative expression. It is nearly impossible to predict what poem an individual will appreciate, even if you know their past likes, just because poetry affects each person in a particular... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280769891972 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:14:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280769891972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280755605124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - "Every story was different, and they were all, to his ears, improbable. But not like the Grave Descend. That was not merely improbable; it was weird. Even the name of the ship was weird." -- from Grave Descend Author John Lange is actually the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280755605124 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:09:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280755605124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280755342980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - "The Thirteen Match game ... is one of the simplest and most effective swindles in existence. The mark can't ever wins unless you want him to. You throw thirteen matches ... on the table. Then you and the john take turns extracting one, two, or three... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280755342980 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:05:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280755342980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280754884228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - "Listen carefully and no one gets hurt.... I've always thought an oft-repeated phrase contains more power than an ordinary 'or I will hurt you'.... There is a gun aimed at your head, a gun that I purchased for the singular purpose of making you do... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280754884228 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:01:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280754884228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280754753156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Since 2002, horror author Scott Nicholson has released a book each year through Pinnacle Books, and has quickly become one of the genre's "writers to watch." His debut novel, The Red Church was even nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280754753156 Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:56:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280754753156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_265250377348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Andrew Mayhem seems to have learned his lesson. He has stopped taking money from strange women in coffee shops to do vague odd jobs, has resolved to be more responsible, and has even gotten a (gasp!) real job. After the adventures chronicled in his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~265250377348 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:17:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_265250377348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_262250598020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Some people have a rougher time ending a relationship than others. When his girlfriend, Olivia, walks out on him, Elliot Newton runs off to his grandfather's cottage, gets drunk, and paints up a frenzy, filling up canvas after canvas with creatures the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~262250598020 Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:52:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_262250598020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_261770284676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Thirty years ago, author Max Allan Collins created the first hired-assassin series character in Quarry, the protagonist of his novel, The Broker (later republished simply as Quarry). Quarry appeared in four more novels, ending with 1986's Primary Target,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~261770284676 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:04:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_261770284676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_261770153604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - "I remember when I lost my mind ... Yeah, I was out of touch / But it wasn't because I didn't know enough / I just knew too much / Does that make me crazy? ... Probably." -- Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy" In just his second novel, author Matthew Warner has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~261770153604 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:59:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_261770153604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_261769760388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Author Hugh B. Cave, English-born Englishman but raised in the United States, first made his name in the pulps. Later "graduating" to the more "respectable" slicks, he eventually published over 1000 short stories during his 90+ years. He also wrote... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~261769760388 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:55:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_261769760388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_261769498244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - I have never been one to follow the ongoing political and religious difficulties among the different factions of Ireland. Everything I know about the IRA, I learned from the books of Daniel Silva and Frederick Forsyth, and the films of Jim Sheridan and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~261769498244 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:51:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_261769498244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_261768646276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - I've been a huge fan of actor / writer / director Orson Welles ever since the first time I saw his terrific, groundbreaking debut film, Citizen Kane and heard him on old-time radio as The Shadow. After I'd watched all his films I could find, and listened... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~261768646276 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:42:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_261768646276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_261768449668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author craigsbookclub - Imagine awakening to a 300-pound marlin stuck in your front door. A sign of animosity perhaps? Steve Solomon thinks so, and he knows who it is from: Pop psychologist / radio host William Kreeger (a.k.a. "Dr. Bill") is the only client whose case Steve... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~261768449668 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:33:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_261768449668?linkin_id=8003929