Dead Clown Barbecue

3/5
pg 260
Some great, some lame, some lukewarm. An anthology that kept me interested, not enough to strongly recommend but at the same time not recommend.

Animals (Spector & Skipp, 1992)

3/5
pgs 449
Animals is a good book It's so hard with books published only years after i was born. Sometimes, I feel like all the good has been taken and only the slack remains. So let's that be our caveat.
       The book pulls on my heart strings with the protagonist being loner and someone who broods over loss as much a this character does. It definitely feels real.
The blood is real and exciting. It's extreme in the way you would want it to be, there's death of loved ones, death of the newly reformed, death of infant, and rape. It's all you could ask for in pseudo-extreme horror.
Psuedo you say? No, not all of this is graphic, its a 90s book, please. The prerequisites are there, though.
Story wise, it starts out awesome, goes to mediocre, and lands somewhere between cool and lukewarm.

The Dunwich Romance (Lee, 2011)

3/5
197 pgs

The Dunwich Horror (Lovecraft, 1928)

4/5
62 pgs

The Mailman (Little, 1991 )

320 pgs.
2.5/5
textbook Stephen King plot. felt somewhat derivative.

bookcount/pagecount

25/7049

Fangboy (Strand, 2011)

3.5 /5 226 pgs.

Haunted House (Kilborn, 2013)

4/5 300 pgs.

The Black Train (Lee, 2009)

4/5
340 pgs.

The Psychopath Test (Ronson, 2011)

4/5
291 pgs

The Menstruating Mall (Mellick, 2011)

3/5
88pgs

Status update

I've read 20 books so far this year, for a total of 5804 pages. Last year, I read 25 books.
My goal this year is to read at least 30 books for a combined total of over 10,000 pages.

Mangled Meat (Lee, 2011)

3 stories
4/5
109 pgs