Cool. I'll check those out when I'm done with the newest stash.
I'm halfway through Damnation Game. It's a Faust-like tale, which I didn't expect. I've never read the Marlowe or Goethe version (though I'm kinda curious now), but everyone knows the story (The Picture of Dorian Gray comes to mind right now). The only "Faust" I've ever read was the Quinn/Vigil comic book version which was sooooo hyped and so subpar. People got so up in arms over the art becaus of the graphic sex and violence Vigil drew (which was the only really good thing about the series), that they zoned in on the controversy and failed to focus on the writing, which while the story is a familiar one, was mediocre at best.
Not so, with Barker's version of this tale. I love this man's style of writing. He reminds me of King - not in the style of writing, but with the uncanny ability to hook his reader and draw them into the tale. And some of the gorier stuff is extremely well written. This is gonna be one of those books that is so good that you're almost sorry when you're done reading because its over.
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
