THE MATILDA MURDER HUNTER
This was the tenth novel by Harry Stephen Keeler, and the second longest
GOING PLACES
It’s a rare novel that contains a perfect opening sentence, but this one, in the line “We’re real fuckheads,” does
THE SHADOW AND OTHER STRANGE TALES
A short single author anthology that appears to have been aimed at children
STRANGE OBJECTS
In the midst of near-universal adulation I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I didn’t much care for this novel
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
This, the premiere work of prose fiction by Quentin Tarantino, is in many respects just like his films
THE WATCHER
Yet another example of a book done in, commercially speaking, by poor packaging
THE DAY THE GODS DIED
A third party companion-piece to CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, and a dispatch from an era in which allegedly true revelations of incredible events were popular
BRAINSTORM
A YA novel that has a number of agreeable elements, but is done in by a simplistic treatment.
THE SPECIALIST
Here we have the fictional equivalent of those Nazi-sploitation movies prevalent in the 1970s
THE LIONESS
A threefer: a historical drama, a bodice ripper and a supernatural thriller