Mignola/Arcudi - BPRD: The Universal Machine De Hartog, Jan - The Peacable Kingdom Marshall, William L. - Yellowthread Street Cotterill, Col...

So I haven't written anything on this useless blog in several months. for what it's worth, since July, I've read 28 books and ...

While not a sequel to "Clockers", "Freedomland" , from 1998, is set in Richard Price's fictional New Jersey cities o...

One of the authors praised by Stanley Crouch in "the Artificial White Man" for examing America and race in depth, is Richard Price...

I was looking up some background on the late historian Shelby Foote and found a lote of references to his friendship with another Southern w...

"The Artificial White Man" is Stanley Crouch's most recent collection of essays on all things American, artistic and politica...

I'm a pretty solid Bruce Willis fan and will check out most movies with him (okay, I will not see "Perfect Stranger") and one ...

Val McDermid's the author of the "Wire in the Blood" series of serial killer books that I haven't read but I have watched ...

I was reading an article about "The Wire" and discovered that series creator David Simon's wife, Laura Lippman, was a writer o...

"The Road" is somehow Oprah's new book club selection. I'm curious how her fans will take to one of the grimmest reads ...

The first book in Michael Marshall's Straw Men trilogy is called,aptly "The Straw Men" . While never as great as I hoped it ...

A couple of months ago in the New York Times one of the guys from Mars Volta mentioned a great new ultra heavy band from California called ...

"The Night Gardener" is the latest book by George Pelecanos. I've never read him before but I'm familiar with his insane...

Just checking to see if anybody's actually out there. If you are are you reading this directly from the Ape Shall Not Kill Ape site or ...

With the arrival of "Columbo - The Complete Sixth and Seventh Seasons" the DVD release of the original Columbo shows is complete....

  "Polyphemus" is a 1987 collection of horror shorts by Michael Shea. I guess he's better known for his Nift the Lean books ...

  "The Thousandfold Thought" is the concluding volume of R. Scott Bakker's "The Prince of Nothing" trilogy.   The H...

"The Warrior Prophet"  is the sequel to "The Darkness That Comes Before" and left me gasping for breath.   Sure there ar...

"The Darkness That Comes Before" is the first volume of a mere three volume fantasy trilogy by Canadian R. Scott Bakker. I disc...

"Shaman's Crossing" is the first of a stack of new fantasy books I picked up in hope of finding something that didn't sti...