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Cat's Books: Romance
Cat's Books: Romance rated it 6 years ago
Bear meets girl.Nora has bad luck with men. When she meets an (actual) bear on a hike in the Los Angeles hills, he turns out to be the best romantic partner she’s ever had! He’s considerate, he’s sweet, he takes care of her. But he’s a bear, and winning over her friends and family is difficult. Not ...
Chris Blocker
Chris Blocker rated it 6 years ago
My Boyfriend Is a Bear is the story of an unlikely romance between a woman and her bear. This is a sweet graphic novel that is not as perverse as the title may imply. Ribon provides a romance with all the elements you expect: an unlikely couple, a chance encounter, and the mistrust and pressure to e...
runner
runner rated it 11 years ago
Oh it has been such a long time since I first read this little cracker! Angel has escaped from an institution and is on a killing spree to find his ex wife Anita and deal out some justice! There is a great list of characters in this fast and furious tour de force from one of the great horror writers...
sfgale
sfgale rated it 12 years ago
Not quite sure why this is supposed to be read in one sitting. I did this but could have quite happily had the same experience reading it over several sittings. Anyway, it was well written, just ever so slightly strange in places, but not nearly as weird as I was led to believe. It is a very good re...
donnaleger
donnaleger rated it 14 years ago
A really good horror story.
target acquired
target acquired rated it 14 years ago
when i first read this book in my early 20s, it was the cover that drew me in and not the name of the author. the cover illustrated just the sort of oh-so-cutting edge scenario that interested me most during that part of my life, and the author was known to me only as a writer of genre horror, and t...
wbebout
wbebout rated it 16 years ago
Pretty good collection of stories. There were the usual losers that you find in a collection such as this but there were some real gems as well. The Goat, Prisoner 392 and Story Time with the Bluefield Strangler all come to mind as good reads.
immediacy
immediacy rated it 34 years ago
I blame Night Visions 8, but, to be truthful, it was just another in a long line of disappointments. I'll explain.I like Joe Lansdale. I took a writer's workshop at Texas A&M three years ago and hit it off with him right away. Since then, I've read a lot of his books and kept in touch. So when I say...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 56 years ago
I can see why it was cut.Available online
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