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NO NO NO DON'T BOTHER !!!!

Advantages: Helps fillmy recycle bin
Disadvantages: Sheer rubbish

I don't know if you know about the writer Laurell K. Hamilton she is a US writer best-known for her series Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. Merry Gentry is the title character of a new fantasy series There are eight books in the series, that is eight too ma ...

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Review of Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K. Hamilton

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Fairy Frolics (Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K. Hamilton)

Advantages: fun, occasionally
Disadvantages: awful writing

Summary: reasonably enjoyable if there is nothing better, lively, trashy fantasy "Swallowing Darkness" is the seventh Meredith Gentry novel and the first one I read. Despite that I had no problems at all in following the plot - even though there isn't ...

magdadh 23.04.2009 · Read full review
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It's time for Merry to Swallow Darkness

Advantages: Good paced read, Lots of action
Disadvantages: None really

The Author Laurell K Hamilton is a bestselling author and has been on the New York bestselling author with this book and previous others. She lives in St Louis, Missouri with her daughter and husband Jon. She writes two major series, the first is ...

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A Long Stand ... but well worth it

Advantages: Compelling descriptive power, gripping storyline
Disadvantages: Daunting prospect at 1,500 pages ...

The “complete and uncut” version of Stephen King’s “The Stand” is quite possibly the single longest book I have ever read. My paperback version amounted to very nearly 1,500 pages (punctuated by the occasional illustration which didn’t serve to add very m ...

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Review of The Stand - Stephen King

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SCARY, EXCITING, AND INTRIGUING

Advantages: Completly good book
Disadvantages: Is a bit long but is worth it

...I do not usually read horror novels but I thoroughly enjoyed The Stand it is an excellent book. In 1978, before the "complete and uncut" edition, before the miniseries, before the author became known as the "King of Horror!!!" (emphasis on triple excla ...

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Review of The Stand - Stephen King

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