EdGosney

OK, so I succumbed to the pressure and read the Hunger Games trilogy on my Kindle Paperwhite (I need to post about my experience with it in the future – love it!). I’ve always enjoyed young adult literature, and I’m a sucker for dystopian and apocalyptic stories, so those were positive marks to start with. […]

Yes! Wow! Yippee! How many ways can I show my excitement for A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones?  Well, I’m not going to go all Elizabeth Barrett Browning here and count the ways, but geez louise was this a wonderful gift to lovers of all things scary. Jones pulled out some heavy hitters […]

The Wizard of Oz as American Myth, by Alissa Burger, is definitely not for the casual Oz fan, or even for the casual fan of any type of mythology. Burger goes deep into seven of the incantations of the Oz story, covering L. Frank Baum’s novel, the movie classic, The Whiz, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, the […]

Ted Kosmatka’s new novel The Games is an entertaining ride into the future world of genetics, morality, and good old Japanese giant monster movies. Coming into this book never having read a word Kosmatka had previously written, I immediately enjoyed his prose style and the way he pulled me into the story, giving me reason […]

When it comes to Media Tie-Ins, I’m typically not much of a fan. I had read the Revenge of the Sith novel before the movie came out, and actually enjoyed it more than the movie. In the 70’s, I read a number of Planet of the Apes novels, and a few of the Alan Dean […]