Literateur: Capsule Reviews May 2017

As a writer, I try to keep reading, but I don't make much time for reviewing these days. Oh, and I'm also reading a ton of books by Carlton Mellick III, but I'm saving those for a blog entry unto themselves. With actual reviews and thoughts on each!

So real quick for now, these were awesome: 

Orson Welles' Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind       Josh Karp

In Our Time    Ernest Hemingway

Something Fresh         P.G. Wodehouse

Cycle of the Werewolf           Stephen King 

Aunts Aren't Ladies!  Phony McFakename

Midnight Pleasures     Robert Bloch

The Lovecraft Papers  P.E. Cannon

The Complete C.S. Lewis Classics     C.S. Lewis

The Sound and the Fury         William Faulkner

The Martian     Andy Weir

Toilets of the World    Morna Gregory

Henrika           Phony McFakename 
Nothing to Envy Barbara Demick 
How America Lost Its Secrets            Edward Epstein

The Total Filmmaker   Jerry Lewis

Hyperbole and a Half Allie Brosh

Gathering        Phony McFakename 
Pet Sematary   Stephen King

Hold the Dark Michael Giraldi

Dad is Fat       Jim Gaffigan

Heavy Metal Scientology Aliens        Phony McFakename

Final Blackout L. Ron Hubbard

A Load of Hooey       Bob Odenkirk

Disco's Out, Murder's In         Heath Mattioli/ David Spacone 

These were okay: 

Further Adventures of Joker   Various Authors

Year's Best Weird Fiction, v.2 and 3         Various Authors

Only You Can Save Mankind            Terry Pratchett
The Hollower  Mary SanGiovanni
The Running Man       Stephen King
Little Nugget  P.G. Wodehouse
Heretics of Dune         Frank Herbert 
Psychos           John McCarty
Starburst          Alfred Bester
The Core of the Sun   Johanna Sisilo

Dimiter            William Peter Blatty

Metallic Muse Lloyd Biggle
The Man With Two Left Feet P.G. Wodehouse
The Airbnb Story        Leigh Gallagher

These I can't recommend:

Hardcase         Dan Simmons
Rabid Growth  James A. Moore
One for the Money     Janet Evanovich
Roadwork       Stephen King


-Phony McFakename

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