Thursday, December 13, 2012

Finished Robin Cook's INVASION

Well, it was obviously inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and was at least as scary.  The ending was much more satisfying, though.  And, true to Robin Cook, it was medically plausible.  Which, of course, made it more scary.  Loved it...LOL
Have now started Jeanne Auel's The Shelters of Stone.  This is based in what is now southern France, at some of the famous sites where wonderful cave paintings were found.  She imagines what the people who made those paintings were like, based on a huge amount of research.  After that very tense book I just finished, this is literally "a walk in the park."

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Finished Dark and Stormy Knights

This books of short stories was pretty good.  Several of my favorite authors and, I guess, always a favorite topic.  I greatly enjoyed P. N. Elrod's story, set much further into the Jack Flemming Vampire Files series than I have read so far and Vicki Petterson's "Shifting Star", told through the eyes of the Tulpa, Skamar's eyes.

I have now started Robin Cook's Invasion, only the second of his science fiction books that I have encountered.  The invaders are from outer space, but are quite different from any invaders I have encountered in any story I have read before.