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In this first collection of short pieces, including two novella-length works, since his western anthology Tonto Woman, Leonard demonstrates the superb characterization, dead-on dialogue, vivid atmosphere, and driving plotting that have made him a household name.

Sparks
Hanging out at the Buena Vista
Chickasaw Charlie Hoke
When the women come out to dance
Fire in the hole
Karen makes out
Hurrah to Capt. Early
The Tonto woman
Tenkiller]]> 228 Elmore Leonard 0060083972 S.C. 4 3.77 2001
author: Elmore Leonard
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2011/07/27
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You don't have to be a Leonard fan to like this. The stories are short, sweet, and entertaining. Classic bathroom fiction.
]]> 18816225 606 Wade Garret 0988659093 S.C. 4 3.76 2013
author: Wade Garret
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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A vast and wonderful book. The storyline is a little dense at times but never plodding. Layered and lovely, it kept me up late more than a few times. Epic Sci Fi is not dead. Huzzah.
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To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight. With John, Marjorie's father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.

Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface--and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.]]> 287 Paul Tremblay 0062363239 S.C. 5
Depending on your point of view, it’s either a story about a possession and an exorcism, or a story about a young girl suffering from schizophrenia left untreated.

But it is so much more. It’s also an indictment of sensationalized, exploitive, reality TV culture, self aggrandized religiosity, misogyny, and patriarchy.
It is also an ode to the horror genre itself.

I’ve heard rumors of a possible film adaptation. If the movie turns out half as good as the book, it’ll be twice as good as the last several “possession� movies combined.]]> 3.78 2015
author: Paul Tremblay
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full Of Ghosts has been on my TBR list for a while now. I finally read it and it was great.

Depending on your point of view, it’s either a story about a possession and an exorcism, or a story about a young girl suffering from schizophrenia left untreated.

But it is so much more. It’s also an indictment of sensationalized, exploitive, reality TV culture, self aggrandized religiosity, misogyny, and patriarchy.
It is also an ode to the horror genre itself.

I’ve heard rumors of a possible film adaptation. If the movie turns out half as good as the book, it’ll be twice as good as the last several “possession� movies combined.
]]> 49628
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .

Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.

But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.

As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.]]> 509 David Mitchell 0375507256 S.C. 4 4.02 2004
author: David Mitchell
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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I liked this book a lot, but I wish it hadn't been broken into partial stories. I get it, or at least I think I do: Time is not linear. Even though the book is about reincarnation, it shouldn't be read as a direct cause and effect linear progression, rather, it should be seen/felt as all things echoing in time infinitely, and as all things being a circle. But, as a reader, I like finished stories. If each tale was told at once, rather than divided, this would have been a five star review.
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Waking nightly to her own screams, Stacy is convinced she’s on the brink of a mid-life crisis and begins secretly seeing a psychiatrist. But as eerie as Dr. Light may be, his treatments work and her circumstances improve. Until the nightmares return with a vengeance taking on a life of their own. Still uncertain what to believe, Stacy carries on living the only life she remembers. But her other, nocturnal world refuses to die. The images it shows her hold clues that lead her to a shocking discovery, threatening to unravel the last thread of her sanity and Stacy must make a heartrending decision�

Before her post-apocalyptic nightmares come true.]]> 266 Rena Mason 1938644085 S.C. 4
Naturally, when her debut novel was released, I picked up a copy. Sure, I picked it up because she’s an all around great gal but I also picked it up because “The Eyes Have It� her story in Horror For Good, was really quite excellent. As a general rule, if I like an author’s short fiction, I’ll also like their long fiction. Its not always true but it’s pretty damn close and in Rena’s case, the rule holds.

The Evolutionist is a tale about an upper middle class housewife, Stacy, on the verge of madness. Her nights are plagued by dreams of dismembered and burning bodies in a post-apocalyptic death-scape and her days are filled with blinding headaches, unexplainable nose bleeds, and hallucinations.

With the help of Dr. Light, a very odd and aptly named psychiatrist, we learn that our protagonist is actually much more than an upper middle class housewife. So much more, in fact, that she may hold the key to coming (or not) of the end of the world.

One of the book’s strengths is the balance between the bizarre and the ordinary. Stacy’s life is one of book clubs, lunch dates, and the duties of being a mom. But, underneath it all, there are waking dreams, terrifying nightmares, and a creeping loss of control. Unbeknownst to her husband and friends, she is quietly losing her mind.

My only criticism is that while the juxtaposing of strange and ordinary is superb, the ordinary is a bit too ordinary. I tend to be attracted to “flawed� characters. If Stacy had been anything beside a suburban housewife; a taxi driver with a drinking problem, a cop who is in love with a prostitute, a washed up boxer with a penchant for watercolors, it would have been more my speed, but that is a personal preference that probably says more about me than it does about the story or its author.

The bottom line is, The Evolutionist is a really good book. The pacing is great, the storyline is intriguing, and the ending is completely and wholly unexpected. It’s a paranormal thriller, it’s a horror mystery, it’s dark sci-fi, it’s chick lit with a twist, it’s a whole lot of things, but most importantly, it’s a damn good read. ]]> 3.77 2013
author: Rena Mason
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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I met Rena Mason at the 2012 World Horror Convention is Salt Lake City. She was friendly, enthusiastic, and an all around great gal. She’d also just had a story published in the charity anthology Horror For Good, which I purchased and read and loved and reviewed here and on schayden.com

Naturally, when her debut novel was released, I picked up a copy. Sure, I picked it up because she’s an all around great gal but I also picked it up because “The Eyes Have It� her story in Horror For Good, was really quite excellent. As a general rule, if I like an author’s short fiction, I’ll also like their long fiction. Its not always true but it’s pretty damn close and in Rena’s case, the rule holds.

The Evolutionist is a tale about an upper middle class housewife, Stacy, on the verge of madness. Her nights are plagued by dreams of dismembered and burning bodies in a post-apocalyptic death-scape and her days are filled with blinding headaches, unexplainable nose bleeds, and hallucinations.

With the help of Dr. Light, a very odd and aptly named psychiatrist, we learn that our protagonist is actually much more than an upper middle class housewife. So much more, in fact, that she may hold the key to coming (or not) of the end of the world.

One of the book’s strengths is the balance between the bizarre and the ordinary. Stacy’s life is one of book clubs, lunch dates, and the duties of being a mom. But, underneath it all, there are waking dreams, terrifying nightmares, and a creeping loss of control. Unbeknownst to her husband and friends, she is quietly losing her mind.

My only criticism is that while the juxtaposing of strange and ordinary is superb, the ordinary is a bit too ordinary. I tend to be attracted to “flawed� characters. If Stacy had been anything beside a suburban housewife; a taxi driver with a drinking problem, a cop who is in love with a prostitute, a washed up boxer with a penchant for watercolors, it would have been more my speed, but that is a personal preference that probably says more about me than it does about the story or its author.

The bottom line is, The Evolutionist is a really good book. The pacing is great, the storyline is intriguing, and the ending is completely and wholly unexpected. It’s a paranormal thriller, it’s a horror mystery, it’s dark sci-fi, it’s chick lit with a twist, it’s a whole lot of things, but most importantly, it’s a damn good read.
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House of Meetings is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century.

Harrowing, endlessly surprising, epic in breadth yet intensely intimate, House of Meetings reveals once again that “Amis is a stone-solid genius . . . a dazzling star of wit and insight� ( The Wall Street Journal ).]]> 241 Martin Amis 1400044553 S.C. 5 I was skeptical, reading the reviews, but he pulled it off and then some. ]]> 3.43 2006
author: Martin Amis
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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This is, without question, one of the best books I've ever read. I'm an Amis fan, but this is a departure for Amis.
I was skeptical, reading the reviews, but he pulled it off and then some.
]]> 1862313 A National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the other lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidoscopic portrait of the new New York.]]> 464 Richard Price 0374299250 S.C. 5 3.73 2008
author: Richard Price
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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He wrote for The Wire and some of his books have been made into decent movies yet somehow I'd never read him. Picked this one up and I'm glad I did. The brilliance of this book is not in its ability to show us how cops catch bad guys, it's in showing us how they don't catch bad guys. All the obstacles are brought to light. The mundane rigamarole, red tape, budget constraints, politics, minor corruption, and everyday ineptitude, yet somehow, broken though the system may be, more often than not, it still works.
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"Mr. Hayden, the devil told me if you continue to write this well you’ll need to bargain the souls of your offspring as well." Alexander Beresford, Author of Charla

“A fantastic mixed bag of highly imaginative tales. Spectacular and strange, wondrous and wild. It felt like Hayden was The Hatter and I was a wide-eyed enjoyably dazzled guest sitting at his tea-party table.� —HORNS, Author of Chophouse and Stationhouse No. 1

"S. C. Hayden’s collection of the macabre is a stunning visual ride on the highway of horror. His exemplary use of blindsiding; S.C. Hayden pulls his reader in and then hits when and where least suspected. He pushes the boundaries between sane and insane thus making the reading of “Rusty Nails, Broken Glass� an excellent collection. I highly recommend “Rusty Nails, Broken Glass� by S. C. Hayden…hands down the swiftest way to get swept away with a true master of horror." –Char Hardin/charhardin.com]]> 220 S.C. Hayden 0988659018 S.C. 5 4.14 2013
author: S.C. Hayden
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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It's a little bit country and a little bit rock & roll and it's all mine baby!
]]> 17080649
Post Mortem Press presents twenty-two unique visions of the fear of the unknown.

Stories from authors nominated and awarded some of the most prestigious honors in genre fiction: Hugo, Nebula, Aurora, Bram Stoker�, and many others.

These writers understand fear.

Includes award-winning genre classics from masters of the unknown, Harlan Ellison® and Jack Ketchum.]]> 320 Eric Beebe 0615732518 S.C. 5
Naturally, I was thrilled to learn that my story "The American" was chosen. I was even more thrilled when I learned that the anthology would include stories from Jack Ketchum and the Legendary Harlan Ellison, as well as several other kick ass writers.

To share space with some of these folks is heady stuff, to share space with Harlan Ellison is the stuff of dreams.

If you don't know who Harlan Ellison is, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the man and his work. Harlan is a force of nature and the world is a far more interesting place for having him in it. The biographical film, "Dreams With Sharp Teeth" is a good place to start.

Fear the Abyss is as solid an anthology as you're likely to read and I'm proud as hell to be a part of it, so yeah, five stars here. ]]> 4.17 2012
author: Eric Beebe
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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A while back Eric Beebe of Post Mortem Press solicited a story from me for an anthology he was planning. I wasn't given much to go on, only that the story was supposed to meld science fiction and horror. And of course, inclusion in the anthology was not guaranteed.

Naturally, I was thrilled to learn that my story "The American" was chosen. I was even more thrilled when I learned that the anthology would include stories from Jack Ketchum and the Legendary Harlan Ellison, as well as several other kick ass writers.

To share space with some of these folks is heady stuff, to share space with Harlan Ellison is the stuff of dreams.

If you don't know who Harlan Ellison is, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the man and his work. Harlan is a force of nature and the world is a far more interesting place for having him in it. The biographical film, "Dreams With Sharp Teeth" is a good place to start.

Fear the Abyss is as solid an anthology as you're likely to read and I'm proud as hell to be a part of it, so yeah, five stars here.
]]> 18864 The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible.]]> 224 Hunter S. Thompson 0684856476 S.C. 5 But Rum Diary is a younger Hunter, a pre Fear and Loathing Hunter.
It's a solid read with hints of the man to be.
]]> 3.86 1998
author: Hunter S. Thompson
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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Of course we all love the chain smoking drug addled king of cool.
But Rum Diary is a younger Hunter, a pre Fear and Loathing Hunter.
It's a solid read with hints of the man to be.

]]> 6597651
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.

What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.]]> 359 Paolo Bacigalupi 1597801577 S.C. 4 I could have given it five stars but I generally don't prefer books written in the present tense. ]]> 3.75 2009
author: Paolo Bacigalupi
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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Took me awhile to get into it but once I did I was all in.
I could have given it five stars but I generally don't prefer books written in the present tense.
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But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life—and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage—and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears.

At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.
(front flap)]]> 414 Michael Chabon 0007149824 S.C. 5 3.72 2007
author: Michael Chabon
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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This is a fantastic book. It's both an homage to, and a total mind fuck of, the classic detective story trope. Lot's of fun.
]]> 52423 365 Pete Dexter 1400079713 S.C. 4 4.01 1986
author: Pete Dexter
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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Took me a while to get into it. The story pitches and rolls a bit but the characters are great and by the end I was completely absorbed.
]]> 12781
From the back cover.]]> 561 Salman Rushdie 0312270828 S.C. 5 3.73 1988
author: Salman Rushdie
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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This is, perhaps, my favorite book.
]]> 101172 240 Thom Jones 0316473049 S.C. 5 4.18 1993
author: Thom Jones
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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I also liked Cold Snap and Sonny Liston Was A Friend of Mine, but The Pugilist At Rest is my favorite.
]]> 12395 Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.]]> 453 Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line 0811216543 S.C. 5 4.23 1932
author: Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1932
rating: 5
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Well, it's only one of the greatest novels ever written.
]]> 13564255
This is a charitable anthology. All revenues, less direct costs for production, marketing and distribution (net profits of each purchase, estimated to be at least 10% to 15%) will be donated to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. For more information on amfAR, please visit: ]]> 404 Mark Scioneaux 1475065361 S.C. 5 Not this one though. Every tale in this collection is good, some are very good and a few are great.
]]> 4.20 2012
author: Mark Scioneaux
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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I can't tell you how many times I've picked up a small press anthology and didn't bother finishing half the stories.
Not this one though. Every tale in this collection is good, some are very good and a few are great.

]]> 10664113 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004XISI4A

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.

Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.

From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.]]> 1125 George R.R. Martin S.C. 5 4.33 2011
author: George R.R. Martin
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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I got into this series late, so I was able to read the first five books more or less back to back. Now I have to bite my nails like everyone else waiting for number six. If you are already into it, you don't need me to tell you how good it is, if you aren't, you don't know what you're missing.
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There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.

A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.]]> 312 Neil Gaiman 0060530928 S.C. 4 This book is a lot of fun. 4.15 2008
author: Neil Gaiman
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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This book is a lot of fun.
]]> 4835 Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating novel, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.]]> 224 Salman Rushdie 0670886580 S.C. 5 3.99 1990
author: Salman Rushdie
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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This book never fails to improve my mood.
]]> 271074
Tree of Smoke was the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.]]> 614 Denis Johnson 0374279128 S.C. 4 3.60 2004
author: Denis Johnson
name: S.C.
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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A little dense at times and the ending was weird, but overall a great read.
]]> 529626 The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.]]> 628 Ken Kesey 0140045295 S.C. 5 4.26 1964
author: Ken Kesey
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1964
rating: 5
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Villains become heroes, heroes become villains.
]]> 12234519 236 S.C. Hayden 0983377324 S.C. 5 4.38 2011
author: S.C. Hayden
name: S.C.
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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Well, I wrote it, so yeah, I like it.
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