This was a fantastic collection. I particularly liked the older stories at the beginning but they were all good. I even found, on a second reading, that I enjoyed the Shadow Puppets entry. Perhaps having a little more time with the character, chronologically, made it work better for me. Oddly...
Oh, brother. Hated hated HATED this book. This guy "re-imagined" Peter Pan? More like barely got away with plagiarizing it and then completely destroyed the spirit of the story. He just re-named the characters and places with extremely obvious parallel names. Captain Hack? Gwenny? The Bully Boys?...
Very Good. Much like the movie its beginning is supremely weak, but picks up half way. Interesting that instead of Alan Dean Foster who did the previous two novelization as well as two other tie-ins. But I applaud the move, Peter David adapts the story better than Foster. I really liked the pr...
I have read his entire Apropos series, comics, and other short stories. Love him. Sir Apropos of Nothing is one of my favorite books. I met Peter David, and had him sign it. This was terrible. I don't know why. It seems horribly unedited. There are mistakes and it repeats in places. The humor is ...
If there's one unifying theme I'm noticing with reviews of this book, it is that Peter David's take on the script was better than the movie itself. I won't disagree. Peter David put a fun spin on it, taking the reader inside the minds of the characters and even making some of the worst jokes in t...
My personal favorite Star Trek novel of all time!!!And I believe that if I have to choose only one novel of all that I have read, this one has to be my favorite novel at all too. SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODYThis book has it all... drama, action, romance, mystery, science fiction, time travel, alterna...
Oliver Twist is one of the most well-known stories ever told, about a young orphan who has to survive the mean streets of London before ultimately being rescued by a kindly benefactor.But it is his friend, the Artful Dodger, who has the far more intriguing tale, filled with more adventure and exc...
Sikes was not particularly looking forward to seeing George the next morning since George had this tendency to discuss Matt’s sex life with a candor that was disconcerting and a volume that was stentorian. So naturally they both ran into the one individual who they wanted ...
WAS SOMETHING OF AN overstatement. There was in fact only one road through Blackridge, and they were able to follow it readily enough toward the Underwoods. They were relieved to get out of town because the glares they were receiving from the townspeople they passed since they had a dog in their ...
She had never fled so far, so fast, and so quickly. Yet her barefooted legs seemed to eat up the distance as if it were nothing. It was so subjective to her that it literally seemed thus: One moment, she was in the midst of the swamp where the hospital was situated; the next moment, the streets o...
Kitai was startled awake as he tried to move and felt constricted. He stretched and felt trapped under something. Panic forced his eyes open, and a ray of morning sunshine streaking through a gap in his binding nearly blinded him. He strained against whatever it was that confined him. Reduced to ...
She thought that perhaps she was dreaming. That would have explained a lot … hell, it would have explained everything. The sense of unreality; the fact that to her senses, Lynch was moving in what appeared to be slow motion. Lynch’s face was smeared with dirt and what appeared to be burn marks, a...
He slid through empty seats mounted on tiers, moving down as close as he was allowed to the actual court. A large piece of Plexiglas separated him from the two men aggressively battling it out for final points on the court. One man was tall, lean, a sharp and accurate player. The other man was mu...
Wayne?” Bruce sat behind his desk, staring at one of Wayne Enterprises’ top lawyers, Stu “The Exterminator” Schoenfeld. Schoenfeld was an intense young man with intense black hair. “Do?” he asked, going through a variety of documents. Off to the sid...
Huge palm trees festooned the orange and white exterior, which had a series of porthole windows in the facade, and the words South Seas Club blinked on and off in intermittent neon flashes on a large overhead sign. Stunning women in sarongs placed leis around the necks of various entering Hollywo...
She was seated opposite the captain, her hands still moving in uncomfortable fidgets. "Yes, I know." "You disagree with that assessment?" Deanna paused, uncertain of what to say. She looked terribly vulnerable, as if the slightest harsh word would cause her to crack and shatter. Finally, all in...
Norda had never seen anything like it in her life. Of course, if she had, she might well have forgotten it. But she was reasonably sure that, no, this was the first time ever. The room was as clammy and damp as any other room in the underground. Anton was next to her, prop...
Clash and Page eyed each other warily, and Clash made a loud, snorting sound. “Okay,” I said as I saddled up Clash, “now we need to find you a horse. Perhaps . . .” “No thanks. I’ll walk.” I stared at her, confused. “Look, Page, if it’s a matter of money, I have more than enough to cover purchasi...
That caution was still ringing in the air when the Sentinel attacked. There had been no warning whatsoever. One moment Emma had been finishing her speech, and the next the entire ceiling of the room was being torn away. The sun’s rays filtered through in a haze of red, but no one paid any attenti...
You’re insane; you’re going to die; get the hell out of here, her common sense kept warning her, even as she turned off the ignition and got ready to step out of the car. Just to play it safe, she placed a lock on the steering wheel for additional security. Even as she clicked the bar into place,...
He had to admit that the device Barry Seltzer had developed for siphoning water through the Grail was nothing short of ingenious. Nothing had been done to the cup itself: no holes drilled in, no intrusion on the surface. Percival would have fought to the death to prevent such a thing, and he doub...