Eric

Great book! The first Nero Wolfe I have ever read. Rex Stout has a great style that I loved and was close to my personal perfect writer, Stephen King in his style. The only complaint is Wolfe's thesaurus-like dialogue that I would have to look up from time to time. Lots of twists and turns and a lot of characters to remember but I kept them all clear in my head! Archie Goodwin is the best and I loved his narration through out. Highly recommended!

The final leg of the Walking Dead saga leaves nothing behind.

We see everything we have wanted for the characters and all the surprises we expect from Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard. This has been a phenomenal series and is by far the best modern comic book that I have read.

Do yourself a favor and read the entire series.

Most people know the Walking Dead from the TV series but the comics are on a whole different level.

Robert Kirkman is next to only Stephen King in my mind as one of the best writers in fiction. I enjoy his writing and stories so much that I had forgotten how he can pull me into a story. If you have never read the Walking Dead comics, do yourself a favor and pick one up today. I guarantee you will read the rest of the series once you start.

I had been intrigued by the “Quarry” series for a couple of years mainly by the Hardcase Crime covers and now the Cinemax TV Show but this is my first dip in the pool.

Quarry is a hit man for hire in the mid nineteen seventies. A returned home Vietnam veteran that knows how to kill and now does it for money back home in the USA. He has been a hit man for a few years now and is very good at what he does for a living. Knowing that and the other characters involved I hope to read about earlier hits.

Quarry is a great flip on the murder mystery genre because Quarry is the hit man, so the mystery is, not who the murderer was, but who hired him to kill this person and why? I'll leave out the details so that you can solve the case yourself, but it was a great book and a lot of fun to read. And don't think of him as a hero. He is a tough guy that does horrible things to mostly innocent people so be prepared for that.

Max Allan Collins has a easily read style of writing, that only the great writers seem to have like Donald E. Westlake or Stephen King that bring you in to the main character's thought process quickly and clearly.

Overall I give “Quarry” four out of five stars. Although it's good book it was an early one for Collins and he has a jarring transition in the middle of the book that seemed out of place to me. Overall a good read and I look forward to the rest of the series.

Red Room can be quite hard to take as the gore is over the top. I do find Ed Piskor's art and stories interesting but sometimes the gore gets to be too much. That being said, most of the violence is just gross and not really of a sexual nature although no body part is safe from a knife the acts of violence are not sexual in nature. Overall I like the stories!