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		<title>Assassin&#8217;s Creed:  Renaissance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy video games.  Some of the movies based on video games, not so much.  I think the only good Resident Evil movie was the last one.  I don&#8217;t like those old Mortal Kombat movies.  I liked the Silent Hill  movie.  There is a considerable number of people out there in the world, both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mania</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a killer loose on the streets of Seattle, dubbed, gruesomely enough, the Street Butcher.  The Street Butcher seems to strike at random.  For newspaper photographer Nick Wilder, it hits close to home.  He never expected he would be the one to make headlines, but that is just what happens when someone attacks him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legend of the Jade Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legend of the Jade Dragonis the second book in Yasmine Galenorn&#8217;s Chintz &#8216;n China series, and, believe it or not, it&#8217;s actually better than the first.
Emerald O&#8217;Brien is having an ordinary, run-of-the-mill day at her business, the Chintz &#8216;n China Tea Room.  Ordinary, that is, until a man named Daniel enters the shop.  Daniel looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost of a Chance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Note From the_novacula-  Last year I read the book A Harvest of Bones by Yasmine Galenorn, part of her Chintz &#8216;n China series.  I didn&#8217;t care too much for it.  Here&#8217;s my review of it.  Well, Chatty Kathy read it, and she liked it.  She liked it so much, she read the entire series.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All About &#8220;The Wolfman&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me make a couple recommendations.  Three, to be precise.
Just a few days ago I stretched out and watched my DVD of The Wolfman.  The unrated director&#8217;s cut of the film, yo yo yo.  If you will allow me, don&#8217;t watch the director&#8217;s cut.  I was hoping, as in some cases (e.g. Rob Zombie&#8217;s Halloween [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monster Hunter International</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of Larry Correia&#8217;s Monster Hunter International, monsters are real.  Just as real as you, me, and the monsters in all the other stories and movies about monsters and the dedicated men and women who devote their lives to hunting them so that you and I don&#8217;t have to.  It&#8217;s better to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darkness On The Edge of Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 20:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One unassuming, ordinary, morning, the people of Walden, Virginia wake up and discover their town has been plunged into darkness.  The electricity is down, cell phones have no signals, and the televisions and radios have no reception, only dead air.  And as dark as the town is, it is nothing compared to the absolute black that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predator:  South China Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Khmer Rouge Rath Preap has built a hunting lodge on an isolated island in the South China Sea.  It is a vacation spot for the rich, primarily for the rich and criminal.  It is also an Earthly vacation spot for the Predator.  Luckily, Rath doesn&#8217;t own the island, he just rents it.
On this particular hunting trip, Rath&#8217;s high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Latitudes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 01:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t read a lot of love for Michael Crichton&#8217;s first posthumous release, Pirate Latitudes, but don&#8217;t let that discourage you from reading it.  It&#8217;s actually pretty good, a rollicking good time in fact, and I think more than Crichton fans will cling to it.  Yeah, it feels a little underdone, but it&#8217;s far from half-baked.
When the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prison Ship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacob Steiner is a military commander aboard the United Star Systems Valiant battlecruiser.  They are given orders by Admiral Ralph Jamison that is meant to lead them to their deaths at the hands of the Seperatists.  Steiner is one of the few survivors of the battle.  He intends to avenge the death of Captain McKillip, leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignatius Perrish wakes up one morning with a hangover to discover he has horns growing from his forehead.  He can remember doing some terrible things, like taking a leak on a Virgin Mary figurine, but the booze has muddled and fuzzed his mind.  He is pretty sure that to wake up with the Devil&#8217;s horns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Tell A Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You want a good time?  Buy this book, sit down, drink some tea, and read it.  Hallie Ephron&#8217;s Never Tell a Lie isn&#8217;t big on surprises, and the twists aren&#8217;t too twisty and shocking, but it&#8217;s such good fun and Ephron writes with such joy, it doesn&#8217;t matter.  And it doesn&#8217;t keep the story from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Alienist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All right, Caleb Carr&#8217;s The Alienist came out way back in 1994.  I wasn&#8217;t going to review it here, just put it under the Buried Treasures and Guilty Pleasures category, but, for me, it doesn&#8217;t belong there.  So, since it took me so long to finish the damn thing, I thought I would rate it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audrey&#8217;s Door</title>
		<link>http://www.literalremains.com/audreys-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Langan is not a horror author for every horror fan.  She is in an advanced class all her own.  She is an acquired taste, and what a taste she is:  delicate, deep, and wrenching.  Langan&#8217;s latest novel, Audrey&#8217;s Door, is by far her best.  And that&#8217;s saying a lot considering her previous efforts, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damnable</title>
		<link>http://www.literalremains.com/damnable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jake Hatcher is locked up in a military prison as the fall guy for a dirty job that had to be done.  No one else could do it, so it fell to him.  He was a Special Forces brand interrogation expert.  That one particular interrogation got wild, he ended up in the clink.  Lucky for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Symbol</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to try to phrase this properly.  Give me a second.  Okay, I admire and appreciate Dan Brown&#8217;s Robert Langdon novels more than I actually like them.  That makes sense, doesn&#8217;t it?  I admire the author for the research that goes into these things, because it is fascinating.  Something gets lost between thought and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mule skinner wandered into the mining town of Abandon on Christmas Day, 1893.  There wasn&#8217;t a soul to be found.  Every man, woman, and child had disappeared, even the gold secured in the town went missing.  The mystery of what happened remains to the present day.
June and Emmett are paranormal investigators.  They hire Lawrence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Harvest of Bones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerald O&#8217;Brien is a single mother of two, has a good relationship going with a younger guy, and owns her own business, the Chintz &#8216;n China Tea Room, in Chiqetaw, Washington.  Emerald also happens to be considered the town witch.  She sees ghosts, communes with her dead grandmother, and has a penchant for finding trouble, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frankenstein, Book One:  Prodigal Son</title>
		<link>http://www.literalremains.com/frankenstein-book-one-prodigal-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stir together Dr. Frankenstein, his most famous monster, a serial killer, a sideshow freak, two homicide detectives, and the mad doctor&#8217;s new race of creatures that he hopes will replace us regular humans and what do you get?  Dean Koontz&#8217;s Frankenstein Book One:  Prodigal Son.  Whew.  That&#8217;s a helluva title right there, Sonny Jim.  Too bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaks the Nightbird</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fount Royal, a small, newly formed, town in the Carolinas of 1699 has a few problems:  two murders, disastrous crops, fleeing citizens, and random arson.  Luckily, especially for Robert Bidwell, the founder, who hopes to make it a port city, the cause of all the problems is in the jail awaiting trial.  The problem is Rachel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shutter Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of people, I guess, I&#8217;ve seen the trailer for the upcoming Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island, an adaptation of the 2003 Dennis Lehane novel, and I thought it looked interesting.  So, as is the case most of the time, I wanted to read the book before I ventured to see the film.
In the Fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Gothic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember where I read it or heard it, but I can distinctly remember Wes Craven being described as a good director who has made some bad movies.  That can be said for a lot of artists, no matter the medium (David Bowie had Tonight, Stephen King had Insomnia, and David Lee Roth had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Castaways</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contestants on a reality survival show are stranded on an isolated tropical island with bloodthirsty, hungry, monsters.  They aren&#8217;t playing for money anymore, they&#8217;re playing for their lives.
The last couple of Brian Keene novels I read, Dead Sea and Dark Hollow, left me with a bad taste in my mouth.  It seemed as if Mr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Year Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it&#8217;s July 29th already!  It&#8217;s almost friggin&#8217; August!  Christmas will be here before we know it.  Do you ever get cravings for eggnog?  That boiled custard stuff is the bee&#8217;s knees.
I intended to do a middle of the year wrap up last month, since June is technically the half way point, but if you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like a good ghost story.  Old dark houses, apparitions, spectral bangs and chains clanging on stormy nights.  William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist and Legion, has delivered a ghostly, twisty, tidy little tale in the form of his new short novel Elsewhere.
Joan Freeboard, realtor extraordinaire, has been called upon to do what many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo</title>
		<link>http://www.literalremains.com/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1966, sixteen year old Harriet Vanger goes missing from Hedeby Island, just a bridge over from the town of Hedestad.  Harriet is a member of the prominent Swedish industrialist Vanger family.  The day she disappeared, the Vangers were meeting for a family business council; she wanted to tell her Uncle Henrik, whom she lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1880 a riverboat captain is delivering a shipment to the Jewish town of Lowensport.  His Jewish Czech crew of two discover they are carrying barrels of clay from their native Czechoslovakia.  They kill the captain, an earthquake hits, the river is rerouted, and the boat is swallowed by the mud and lost.
Before that happens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and shuts down.  It goes deathly quiet and dark.  The shades are drawn on all the windows and the crew does not respond to air traffic control.  Police arrive and they eventually board the plane to discover the passengers dead.  A special branch of the CDC, the Canary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Loch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zachary Wallace is a marine  biologist hunting for giant squid in the Sargasso Sea.  He and his team find the giant squid, plus a little something extra, and their sub is torn apart and he nearly doesn&#8217;t survive the drowning.  This is Zachary&#8217;s time drowning, the first time was seventeen years early in Loch Ness; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afraid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Safe Haven, Wisconsin, is a little town in the middle of nowhere with one road leading in and out of it.  Blink and you&#8217;ve missed the place.  One night a helicopter carrying special forces soldiers crashes in the woods just outside of town.  As Safe Haven&#8217;s sheriff and the other townsfolk learn, the crash was no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child 44</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A child, Arkady, is found dead by the railroad tracks.  It is officially found to be an accident.  From the details of the body, the incident is being called a murder by the family.  The father&#8217;s supervisor from work visits the home.  The supervisor informs Fyodor, Arkady&#8217;s dad, for his own safety, for his remaining family&#8217;s safety, stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a raid, Baltimore detective Joe Ledger, assigned to a counter-terrorism force, kills Javad Mustapha on a Monday.  On Wednesday, as part of his recruitment to the super-secret Department of Military Science (DMS), Ledger kills Mustapha again.  A terrorist group has a new biological weapon that not only kills, but it also reanimates the corpses.  The terrorists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World War Z</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written as a series of interviews, World War Z by Max Brooks, dubbed An Oral History of the Zombie War, tells the story of humanity’s fight against the living dead. There has been a lot of hype around this book, and critics have loved it. Even horror fans have been singing its praises from some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Mining Corporation (IMC) have made a mysterious discovery in the jungles of the Congo that could world altering, and shattering, consequences. Satellite imagery has detected the presence of a circle buried deep beneath the jungle floor. Twenty thousand feet deep to be precise.
Oh, brother, here we go again. At least that&#8217;s what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m having a hard time writing this review.  I just finished reading this book, and I can&#8217;t quite find the right words to describe it.  It&#8217;s that good.
 
Drood is a living, breathing, twisting novel.  The best thing is that Drood goes beyond categorization, beyond a single genre.  It is enlightening, entertaining, thrilling, and beguiling.  Epic.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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I like horror.  Horror books, horror movies, horror sounds, Marilyn Manson, Barry Manilow and the Carpenters.  I like splatter punk, psychological horror, ghosts, monsters, vampires, and werewolves, OH MY!  (Sorry, I couldn&#8217;t resist; rainy days and Mondays always bring me down.)  I like fast paced, balls to the wall, four on the floor action, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underground</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven high school friends, all considered outcasts in one way or another, calling themselves The Underground, gather for a last senior year send-off. They decide to party at the foreboding plantation mansion of the one rich outcast. Ready to kick it with sex, drugs, and rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll, a fight breaks out among them, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows In The Mist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack &#8220;Grim Reaper&#8221; Chambers lost his platoon in the Hurtgen Forest during WW II. What really happened there is a mystery that has haunted Jack for over sixty years, and as he comes to the end of his life, he wants the truth to be known.
Incapacitated by bad health, Jack entrusts his grandson, Sean, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rising and City of the Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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In Brian Keene&#8217;s The Rising, and its sequel City of the Dead, the dead are coming back to life.  But these are not ordinary, brain lunching, flesh munching, zombies.  An interdimensional divide has opened involving experiments with particle accelerators and black holes, allowing demons to invade our reality.  These demons escape the distant depths and slip into the bodies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Red</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Blood Red is Ravenous with vampires and none of the bite. Kealan Patrick Burke described Blood Red as &#8220;Brutal and scary&#8221;. I read all three hundred and ninety-six pages of this damn novel, and I&#8217;m still looking for the brutal and scary parts. I would have quit reading it at three or four different points, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloodstone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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A man running from his past kidnaps a woman and they stop in a small town. Not by accident. DUM-DUM DUM-DUM. Bloodstone was a finalist for a Bram Stoker award. Apparently, the people at the Horror Writers Association have lowered their standards in recent years. How come nobody told me?
Somewhere, underneath all the banality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debut novel by Joe McKinney has zombies tearing up Texas. Five devastating hurricanes have whipped the Texas Gulf Coast in three weeks. There are thousands dead or dying, and from this disaster a virus emerges that reanimates the dead. Of course, they are hungry for human flesh. Police officer Eddie Hudson soon learns that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ravenous</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the author bio, Garton&#8217;s novel Live Girls is considered a classic in the vampire genre. I&#8217;ve never read it.   Ravenous is my first taste of Ray Garton&#8217;s work, and I bought it because it was a werewolf story. I love a good werewolf tale.  And even if I didn&#8217;t like the lycanthropes, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghoul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timmy Graco and his friends hope to spend the summer of 1984 as they usually occupy their time:  in their secret dugout in the cemetery.  After a personal tragedy strikes Timmy&#8217;s family, he really wants the down time with his friends, time just being a kid.  Unfortunately, someone, or something has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Keeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Langan&#8217;s debut novel centers around the small town of Bedford, Maine.  Many of its citizens consider Bedford to be cursed.  The Clott Paper Mill, long the beating, polluted, heart of the town has closed, forcing the majority of the citizens into unemployment and even harder means of survival.  The mill closes [...]]]></description>
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