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Interesting items. Dark mutterings. Books. Comics. And Tom Stoppard.
- Added on: Sep 5th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Michael L. Berry
- Listed in: Books Writing
- Tags: reviews comics science fiction horror freelance stoppard
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5 Trilogies Worth Re-reading
The short days and cold nights put me in the mood for longer, more involved storytelling. I just finished Stieg Larsson's "The Girl Who Played with Fire," the middle volume of the Milllennium Trilogy, bookended by "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" an...
The Posthumous Crichton
Michael Crichton, author of "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park," died of cancer last year, but there's a new novel out with his name on it. "Pirate Latitudes" was apparently found in his files as a completed manuscript. Indeed, it doesn't read...
Holiday Books -- Science Fiction/Fantasy 2009
The San Francisco's Holiday Books section will be published on Sunday, but you can already read my column online at SFGate.com. It's not really a "Best of the Year" list, though some will view it that way. There's just too much good material and too ...
In Defense of Stephen King
My review of Stephen King's "Under the Dome" ran in today's Chronicle, and it was not 100% positive. The book's too long and filled with too-familiar characters and situations. On a "weird doings in Maine" scale from the atrocious "The Tommyknockers"...
From Garp to Twisted River
I've been reading John Irving for just a tiny bit more than 30 years. I picked up "The World According to Garp" in paperback during the second semester of my college freshman year, and I was enraptured by it. I couldn't put it down and didn't want it...
Housekeeping
What with the Twitter and the Facebook and other distractions, I took a long time away from blogging and am trying to get back into the rhythm of it.Since July, I've contributed but two book columns to The Chronicle. The first covered new novels by L...
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