Supernatural is the story of the Winchester Brothers and their quest to rid the world of Demons, Ghosts, and the Like by being professional Hunters. Professional meaning they do it full time, not that they get paid for risking their lives week in and week out. But of course, these are not just your average Hunters, these are Special Hunters. Sam seems to be something along the lines of the Angel Gabriel in that he will be the one who sounds the end of the earth. This is not a good thing for those us who are still busy using…
Category: fantasy
Lost by Gregory Maguire
Several years ago I was reading a book on writing. I used to do that rather a lot. This particular book had a series of exercises in it. A writing book that tells you to actually do something is the best kind in my experience. One of the exercises was to tell a story from the point of view of the villain, to make the villain a sympathetic character. I wrote a story about The Wicked Witch of the West. As is the case of many writers such as I myself, I did not follow through on this story and…
Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner
Reader Laura Hicks gives Julie Kenner’s Carpe Demon a light and airy read. She was clearly more impressed with the comic aspects of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom than the more serious ones. The story was a bit silly, would it have been better with a more serious reader? AudioFile seemed to think so. I think a good reader can improve a book, but in the end, it still comes down to the written words they are reading. I always liked Buffy The Vampire Slayer-I was not a fan of the movie, but the television series. I loved the whole set…
Fatal Revenant by Stephen R Donaldson
I read the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant when I was in High School. It was a profound and very interesting work. Even to my young eyes it was clear that Stephen liked to write with a Dictionary and Thesaurus close at hand, as the books were full of words like Elohim and Adumbrate and Loins. Streams of waters, were always rills. Large rocks were always megaliths. Nights were always Stygian. And so on and so forth. Reading these books was a vocabulary lesson as well as a heart wrenching story of loss and despair. And I loved every verbose,…