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		<title>7th Sigma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Gould’s JUMPER was one of those sci-fi novels that seemed like a no-brainer for a cool movie adaptation. In fact, when I first read it back in 1994, I fantasized about one day securing the rights to the novel and pitching it to Hollywood. (I still have that fantasy about Lucius Shepard’s GREEN EYES.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/7th-sigma/</link>
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		<title>The Jaguar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[T. Jefferson Parker’s THE JAGUAR is the fifth novel to feature Charlie Hood, the stoic L.A. sheriff’s deputy who divides his time between local and federal assignments, and has recently been trying to stem the flow of drugs and guns running between the U.S. and the powerful Mexican cartels. In this latest story, Hood actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-jaguar/</link>
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		<title>John Woo: The Films — Second Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now updated from its 1999 publication, the paperback release of Kenneth E. Hall&#8217;s JOHN WOO: THE FILMS is able to tell a more complete story of the Hong Kong director. At the time, Woo&#8217;s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II hadn&#8217;t been released, which would mark his American commercial peak, followed by the disappointing underperformer WINDTALKERS and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/john-woo-the-films/</link>
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		<title>The Doll: The Lost Short Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) is regarded as one of the early influences and shapers of popular fiction, including genres such as suspense and horror. Those who never read her are still familiar with her work, thanks to the many notable movie adaptations of her novels and short stories, including REBECCA, JAMAICA INN, DON&#8217;T LOOK NOW [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/the-doll/</link>
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		<title>Monsters in the Movies / Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s / House on Haunted Hill: A William Castle Annotated Screamplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I were to list my top 10 most influential movie books, Kim Newman&#8217;s 1988 edition of NIGHTMARE MOVIES would sit snugly right alongside Danny Peary, Pauline Kael, Phil Hardy and Joe Bob Briggs. And if I were to list my top 10 film personalities, both John Landis and William Castle would be on that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/monsters-in-the-movies-nightmare-movies-house-on-haunted-hill/</link>
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		<title>Trespasser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TRESPASSER is Paul Doiron’s second novel featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. Apparently, in the first, THE POACHER’S SON, Bowditch had to track down his criminal father and, in the process, made some enemies on the police force. These enemies continue to haunt him during this outing, so the conflict stems from both his efforts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/trespasser/</link>
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		<title>Cowboys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary Phillips, the excellent and criminally underappreciated Los Angeles-based crime-fiction author, is no stranger to comics. Fact is, he’s been producing series and graphic works for almost as long as he’s written his various novels and short stories. Among his more recent illustrated ventures is Vertigo Crime&#8217;s COWBOYS, a stunning example of how a complex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/cowboys/</link>
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		<title>The Devil Amongst the Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s no surprise why Sharyn McCrumb is a bestselling author. In THE DEVIL AMONGST THE LAWYERS, she accomplishes a feat most writers wouldn’t be able to pull off. She creates a large cast of fascinating characters, differentiates them significantly from each other, tells their own individual stories in relatively few words, and combines them all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/the-devil-amongst-the-lawyers/</link>
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		<title>Black Jack: Volume 17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s with both great sadness and a sigh of relief that BLACK JACK: VOLUME 17 arrives — sadness, because this marks the end of Vertical Inc.&#8217;s trade-paperback reprints of Osamu Tezuka&#8217;s &#8220;peerless medical drama&#8221; manga; relief, because the publisher actually saw it through to the very end, as promised. I guess that meant the thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/black-jack-volume-17/</link>
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		<title>Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca T. Alpert’s OUT OF LEFT FIELD: JEWS AND BLACK BASEBALL is a gem of a history book: a concise, fascinating account of a significant American cultural element, black baseball, and an exploration of one particular aspect of that element, the interactions and attitudes — both real and perceived — between Jews, blacks, black Jews [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/out-of-left-field/</link>
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		<title>Stainless / Brand New Cherry Flavor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Who is Todd Grimson?&#8221; That was the first thought I had when someone recommended his work to me. Apparently, he&#8217;s an author of quirky subject matters who burst onto the literary scene in the 1990s, and then faded just as quickly. Although from what I’ve read about him, he never stopped writing; he simply wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/stainless-brand-new-cherry-flavor/</link>
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		<title>Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not one who could afford a subscription to THE NEW YORKER, I had read Pauline Kael&#8217;s movie reviews in sparse instances over the years. In other words, my exposure to her — this was pre-Internet, mind you — was limited compared to other film critics. It need not matter when presented with PAULINE KAEL: A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/pauline-kael/</link>
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		<title>Deathless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve had this one on my TBR pile for a while. It’s not that I didn’t want to read DEATHLESS or that I’m not a fan of Catherynne M. Valente … I thoroughly enjoyed her THE HABITATION OF THE BLESSED, but her writing is dense and lyrical, a step away from verse. In other words, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/fantasy/deathless/</link>
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		<title>Inner Sanctum: Tales of Mystery, Horror &amp; Suspense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A doll possessed by the devil, a freshly dug-up corpse, a musician driven to madness, a mentalist with a twisted gift, a woman who suspects her husband is a vampire, a family driven by greed — these are among the tales of terror in the hardcover comics anthology INNER SANCTUM, written and illustrated by Ernie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/inner-sanctum/</link>
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		<title>Rat Catcher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RAT CATCHER is another in Vertigo Crime’s series of wonderfully intense and suspenseful graphics novels incorporating some of the finest writers and artists working the field today. This one is a bloody and breathless story of betrayal and retribution that starts off with a bang and rarely lets up until the conclusion. A fire breaks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/rat-catcher/</link>
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		<title>Sci-Fi Savant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I was introduced to the magical wonderland that is DVD, I have been an off-and-on reader of Glenn Erickson. He&#8217;s the reviewer who writes under the name of DVD Savant at DVDtalk.com. Now, some of those reviews are among the more than 100 collected in the SCI-FI SAVANT paperback from Point Blank Press. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/sci-fi-savant/</link>
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		<title>Bob Powell&#8217;s Terror: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics, Volume 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following 2010&#8242;s delightful DICK BRIEFER&#8217;S FRANKENSTEIN, this second volume in IDW&#8217;s &#8220;Chilling Archives of Horror Comics,&#8221; BOB POWELL&#8217;S TERROR, as edited by the ubiquitous Craig Yoe, is equally oddball-wonderful. While the first book chronologically covered 15-odd years of both style and character development, this tome is limited to a much briefer segment. These 18 stories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/bob-powells-terror/</link>
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		<title>Death at the Chateau Bremont</title>
		<description><![CDATA[M.L. Longworth’s debut novel, DEATH AT THE CHATEAU BREMONT, has a few appealing elements. Set in contemporary Aix-en-Provence, it features two well-drawn conflicted characters, Judge Antoine Verlaque and his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Marine Bonnet, a professor of law. Their interactions and motivations form the emotional core of the book, and the author goes to great pains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/death-at-the-chateau-bremont/</link>
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		<title>The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noir is like pornography: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. And you&#8217;ll see it in a light you&#8217;ve never seen before after reading THE MALTESE TOUCH OF EVIL, by scholars Shannon Scott Clute and Richard L. Edwards. This is no ordinary text on the genre. From 31 movies cast in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/the-maltese-touch-of-evil/</link>
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		<title>The Richest Hill on Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard S. Wheeler applies his formidable skill of combining Western historical events with fiction in THE RICHEST HILL ON EARTH, his latest stand-alone novel. Here, the story surrounds the battle for control of the rich copper mines during the early history of Wheeler’s home state of Montana. Its city of Butte in the early 1890s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/westerns/the-richest-hill-on-earth/</link>
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		<title>Donner&#8217;s Guide to Dating Artificial Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television writer Michael Dempsey turned novelist with NECROPOLIS, a sci-fi/noir blend published by Night Shade Books. Its protagonist is alcoholic NYPD detective Paul Donner, who, after dying &#8230; well, let&#8217;s let the author take it from here in this guest feature: Paul Donner was a Brooklyn police detective who got dead — shot to death [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/features/donners-guide-to-dating-artificial-girls/</link>
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		<title>Happy 40th Anniversary, THE EXORCIST!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Peter Blatty&#8217;s novel THE EXORCIST recently earned a hardcover reissue from HarperCollins in a 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. To celebrate, a few BOOKGASM staffers weighed in on their experiences with the book and, naturally, the Oscar-winning movie it spawned. Turns out we need to read more. I’ve never seen THE EXORCIST. And I realize that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/features/happy-40th-anniversary-the-exorcist/</link>
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		<title>The Space Merchants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth&#8217;s THE SPACE MERCHANTS has been hailed as a triumph of science fiction since it was first published in serial form in GALAXY magazine back in 1952 (under the title THE GRAVITY PLANET), and then in book form the following year. It’s rarely out-of-print for long, and is among those works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/the-space-merchants/</link>
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		<title>A Quiet Vendetta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, The Overlook Press began making the backlist of thriller author R.J. Ellory available to U.S. readers for the first time. The latest offering is A QUIET VENDETTA, originally published in Great Britain in 2005. Fortunately, the passing years have not diminished its impact in the least.   On a hot August night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/crime/a-quiet-vendetta/</link>
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		<title>Fright Night on Channel 9: Saturday Night Horror Films on New York&#8217;s WOR-TV, 1973-1987</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being raised in Oklahoma City instead of New York City, I&#8217;d never heard of the FRIGHT NIGHT film showcase that brightened the tube for roughly two decades worth of Saturday nights on WOR-TV. Turns out, such knowledge isn&#8217;t needed to enjoy James Arena&#8217;s book FRIGHT NIGHT ON CHANNEL 9. As long as you fondly recall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/fright-night-on-channel-9/</link>
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		<title>The Inheritance &amp; Other Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. THE INHERITANCE &#038; OTHER STORIES is exactly the kind of old-school short-story collection one would withdraw from the public library as an adolescent, sit down and read cover to cover, and become spellbound by the possibilities of the literary genre. Megan Lindholm, also writing under that name of Robin Hobb (they are one and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/fantasy/the-inheritance-other-stories/</link>
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		<title>The Backstory Behind CODE BLOOD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kurt Kamm&#8217;s new novel, CODE BLOOD, tracks rookie fire paramedic Colt Lewis through the corridors of high-stakes medical research laboratories, the shadow world of body parts dealers and the underground Goth clubs of Los Angeles, in which he uncovers a tangled maze of needles, drugs and maniacal ritual, all of which lead to death. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/features/the-backstory-behind-code-blood/</link>
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		<title>Of Muscles and Men: Essays on the Sword &amp; Sandal Film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to report that OF MUSCLES AND MEN: ESSAYS ON THE SWORD &#038; SANDAL FILM is as much fun as it sounds. Instead, like a good chunk of the so-named peplum genre, it can&#8217;t live up to the hyperbolic art — in this case, not a poster, but a book cover. Published by McFarland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/of-muscles-and-men/</link>
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		<title>Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Southern California-based journalist Nicholas Schou’s ORANGE SUNSHINE, now out in paperback, tells the fantastic but true story of how a group of small-time thugs were transformed by drug-induced spiritual awakenings and set out to essentially turn on the entire world — along the way becoming the most successful and sophisticated drug cartel in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/orange-sunshine/</link>
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		<title>Bruce Lee, Woodstock and Me: From the Man Behind a Half-Century of Music, Movies and Martial Arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One would think with the title BRUCE LEE, WOODSTOCK AND ME that film producer Fred Weintraub&#8217;s memoir would be right up the movie lover&#8217;s alley. And part of it is, but overall, it deals more with his less-public days as music manager than any other topic. Therefore, audiophiles with a love for pop of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/bruce-lee-woodstock-and-me/</link>
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		<title>UFOs in Wartime: What They Didn&#8217;t Want You to Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In these twilight days of the mass-market paperback, I was delighted to see a honest-to-goodness flying-saucer paperback with appropriate hyperbole on its cover: &#8220;Shocking accounts of UFOs observed during times of conflict.&#8221; &#8220;Includes Incredible Photographs of UFO Sightings!&#8221; If you have any interest in Fortean topics, that has got to warm the cockles of your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/ufos-in-wartime/</link>
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		<title>Narrows Gate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pop-music critic and novelist Jim Fusilli first featured the fictional city of Narrows Gate in short stories published over the last several years. Now it is at the heart of the full-length NARROWS GATE, a sprawling, fictional retelling of the formative days of the Italian-based organized crime scene on the East Coast in the years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/crime/narrows-gate/</link>
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		<title>Your Weekend Flick Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s been going on at our sister site, Flick Attack, &#8220;hitting you with one random movie a day &#8230; whether you like it or not&#8221;? Here&#8217;s just a sampling of what you&#8217;ve missed: • COWBOYS &#038; ALIENS &#038; severe boredom • Susan Lucci offers viewers an INVITATION TO HELL • a 1960 adaptation of Edgar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/your-weekend-flick-attack-42/</link>
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		<title>Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Damn you, Danny Shipka! Damn you and your new book, PERVERSE TITILLATION! I mean, the book is a fantastic read, but it really added to my already too-long list of movies that I need to see and/or buy. For a book on films, threatening to take up much of future free time is the highest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/perverse-titillation/</link>
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		<title>Alan Cranis&#8217; Best Books of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[True reading, as the late Jorge Luis Borges once observed, is actually re-reading. This is a crucial part of the criteria I use when considering my list of favorite readings from the past year: not only how much I enjoyed reading it the first time, but more importantly, if it is among those select titles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/features/alan-cranis-best-books-of-2011/</link>
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		<title>JT Lindroos&#8217; Best Books of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best Nonfiction  A ROCKET IN MY POCKET, Max Decharne&#8217;s energetic, in-depth appreciation of rockabilly manages to cover the genre from both personal and historical angle. It roams from detailing one-shot curios like Jerry &#8220;The Phantom&#8221; Lott to excavating the genius of Charlie Feathers. That it spends time appreciating the Tav Falco and The Cramps is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/features/jt-lindroos-best-books-of-2011/</link>
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		<title>BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL &amp; BOMBS &gt;&gt; Gift Card Guide for 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know my column has been dormant for a while. You can post all the blame on all the great reissues that have come out this past year. Once again, it&#8217;s time to pick out books and other items for the holiday season — not for friends and family, but you, for all the gift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/features/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-gift-card-guide-for-2011/</link>
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		<title>Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman&#8217;s Zombie Epic on Page and Screen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Kirkman’s THE WALKING DEAD has grown from an independent comic book series to a mini-industry spawning spin-off novels, action figures, national best-selling graphic novel compilations, and, of course, the hit cable TV series now halfway into its second series (and already renewed for a third). Not surprising then that editor James Lowder and Smart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/triumph-of-the-walking-dead/</link>
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		<title>Merkabah Rider: Tales of a High Planes Drifter / The Mensch with No Name  </title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a fan of Westerns crossed with fantasy and horror elements. Some people salivate over cyberpunk. Some get giddy over steampunk. Me, I’m a fan of “cowpunk.” (And no, I didn’t coin that phrase. But I’ll certainly take credit if no one else will.) Joe R. Lansdale is particularly adept at mashing the Western genre [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/westerns/merkabah-rider/</link>
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		<title>The Hammer Vault: Treasures from the Archive of Hammer Films</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crack open THE HAMMER VAULT — assuming you&#8217;re already a hardcore Hammer fan, that is. Having already covered the legendary British-based horror film company in other books, from its poster art to its hot actresses, author Marcus Hearn now assembles a chronological, visual-driven journey through the label&#8217;s genre greats (and gaffes), from 1954&#8242;s cult classic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/the-hammer-vault/</link>
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		<title>A River in the Sky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A RIVER IN THE SKY is Elizabeth Peters’ 19th (!) novel featuring the archaeologist Amelia Peabody; her irascible husband, Emerson; and a barely controllable family that includes her biological son, Ramses; her acquired “daughter,” Nefret; and a number of others who protect and love the Peabody family body and soul. Set in mid-1910 in Palestine, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/a-river-in-the-sky/</link>
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		<title>Snuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Devoted followers of Terry Pratchett’s wonderful Discworld series know that it contains several different narrative threads following various characters (human and otherwise) on this satirical fantasy world. These include novels devoted to witches, wizards and the foundation of various industries like banking, the postal service and the news media. One such thread follows the coppers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/fantasy/snuff-2/</link>
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		<title>The Cold Commands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we left our heroes at the end of Richard K. Morgan&#8217;s fantasy debut, THE STEEL REMAINS, there was a sense that something big was coming, something far more sinister than the tentative invasion that was repelled at the end of that book. The sequel, THE COLD COMMANDS, picks up some time after its precursor, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/fantasy/the-cold-commands/</link>
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		<title>Three Stooges FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Eye-Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Farrelly brothers bringing THE THREE STOOGES to screen next spring, the beloved slapstick troupe is primed for a resurgence of fandom. Sensing this, Applause Books has released THREE STOOGES FAQ: EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE EYE-POKING, FACE-SLAPPING, HEAD-THUMPING GENIUSES. David Hogan&#8217;s book is not quite that. For one thing, it ignores the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/three-stooges-faq/</link>
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		<title>The Hunter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prolific thriller author John Lescroart reveals more personal background about Wyatt Hunt in THE HUNTER than any of the two previous novels starring the San Francisco-based P.I. But there’s also plenty of mystery, suspense and unsolved murder to keep Hunt busy. Fans need not worry; his latest is not an attempt to go completely mainstream. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-hunter/</link>
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		<title>I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because everybody else in I WANT MY MTV does, I&#8217;ll share my first glimpse of the world&#8217;s first all-music cable network: Our parents didn&#8217;t want us watching it, so one night while they went out to dinner with friends, I switched our cable dial over and saw a commercial for a Rush album with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/i-want-my-mtv/</link>
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		<title>Will the World End on Dec. 21, 2012?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best-selling author Steve Alten knows about the Mayan Calendar and its doomsday prophecy. His DOMAIN series has sold millions of copies worldwide. But it is Alten’s new release through Tor/Forge, PHOBOS: MAYAN FEAR, that he says provides details of an actual threat to humanity that could have many readers hiding under the covers on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/features/will-the-world-end-on-dec-21-2012/</link>
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		<title>Your Weekend Flick Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s been going on at our sister site, Flick Attack, &#8220;hitting you with one random movie a day &#8230; whether you like it or not&#8221;? Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ve missed: • Italy&#8217;s THE FRENCH SEX MURDERS, which pretty much makes good on that title • MAXIMUM RISK, just one of many Jean-Claude Van Damme flicks in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/your-weekend-flick-attack-41/</link>
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		<title>Supernatural Noir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With SUPERNATURAL NOIR, prolific and award-winning editor Ellen Datlow set out to find stories that would combine the characteristics of her two favorite types of genre literature. So, per her brief introduction to this original anthology, she put the word out for “smart, edgy, complex, harder-than-nails stories of the supernatural with at least a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/supernatural-noir/</link>
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		<title>Who won PHOBOS: MAYAN FEAR?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHOBOS: MAYAN FEAR, Steve Alten’s third book in his &#8220;Mayan Prophecy&#8221; series, is a doomsday rollercoaster ride of adventure that follows Immanuel Gabriel to the end of the world and back again for one last shot at salvation. During Immanuel’s journey with his deceased grandfather, archaeologist Julius Gabriel, Julius reveals everything the Mayans knew and feared [...]]]></description>
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