When Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," she could have been talking about China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. The novel's publication met with a burst of extravagant...
Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star...
Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but for the "blood god," the wounds of the heart sometimes stay open and raw for...
Dieser Text bezieht sich auf die Buchausgabe des Titels. Einen robusten Magen sollten Sie schon haben, wenn Sie von Hannibal "Der Kannibal", des "Pièce de Résistance", das aus drei Gängen...
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait,...
While technically the fourth book in the Preacher series, Ancient History isn't part of the main Preacher story line and doesn't even use any of the main characters (Reverend Jesse Custer, his...
Arnie ist ein geborener Verlierer, der von Mädchen nicht beachtet wird. Ein Außenseiter, der nur in seinem Hobby, als Mechaniker an Autos zu basteln Bestätigung findet. So ist seine große Liebe...
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookshops and beg them not to buy it. The Stand is like...
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