Dead Meat

Rating:
Summary: The book was interesting but easy.
Review: I found the book really interesting and life like. It really had a real life feel to it. I thought that this book was a pretty easy book. I really liked the ending it had a typical ending.

Rating:
Summary: Totally fun pulp
Review: Lots of gore and a passable knowledge of occultism in general. This is a fun book, but is not the epic horror great I had hoped it would be. Still, it's a good, fun trashy mindless read. Reminds me of what a vampire novel by Jim Thompson might be like.

Rating:
Summary: All pulp, all the time
Review: This was my introduction to the works of Guy N. Smith,
and it was something of a surprise. I've read period
'shudder pulps' of the 1930s, and this is probably as close
as you can get to a contemporary shudder pulp feel.
Lots more sex, more explicit violence, and an angsty,
noirish feel. The hodge-podge of occult traditions, all
thrown together with vigor and a dash of bitters (pun
intended) make for a potent cocktail, albeit with a nasty
aftertaste.
Overall, it reminded me of my brother the college English
professor describing a popular-market espionage thriller -
"if this book were a CD, Tipper Gore would want to put a
sticker on it."