Book 44: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

A true classic, yet so hard to read. I've tried at least 3 times before because it is my wife's favorite book, but I always gave it up. I used DailyLit.com again and they sent me a chunk every day and I eventually got through the thing this time. I knew the general story from watching it on Masterpiece Theater with the wife. It's a very gothic book and I can see why so many people like it. It's hard to care for the main characters. They are either insanely mean and spiteful, or plain stupid in their actions. But Heathcliff is an awesome name, so it has that going for it.

Book 43: 1632 by Eric Flint

I read this book through DailyLit.com. They let you subscribe to RSS feeds where they send you a few pages to your feed reader every day. I had tried to read this book a couple of years ago, but ended up quitting before I completed it. It has a solid premise, but certain parts jsut didn't hold my attention. There were other parts though, especially near the end, that had me adding more pages to my feed so I could read what happened next. A mining town in almost the present day West Virginia is tranported to Germany in the year 1632. The people there are then thrown into all the political turmoil of that area in that age. They decide to set up their own free country and start the American Revolution a little early.

Book 42: Night Plague by Graham Masterton

This is the third book in the Night Warriors series. It was by far my least favorite. The opening would be pretty uncomfortable for any guy to read. There is a plague that is unleashed by this witch and it infects people by spreading through dreams. The descendants of the Night Warrirs who fought the witch hundreds of years ago have to get their powers and team up to fight her again and stop the plague. It took 2/3 of the book before they even found out that they were Night Warriors. I probably should have liked it a little more. It had some good horror elements in it, but it took me near forever to actually get through it. I would read it for a little and then put it down for a week and read something else instead. But then again, I did finish it, so that's gotta count for something.

Book 41: Death Dream by Graham Masterton

I found the second and third books of the Night Warriors series one day in the Half Price Bookstore, so I picked them up. Now if I could only find the first one somewhere.

This was ok. A demon is manifesting through a young boy and killing anyone who is around him while he sleeps. The boy's father get messed up by the demon, but eventually finds out he is a Night Warrior and he joins together with others to fight the demon and try to save his son.

Overall, it was ok. I liked the 4th book better and I have a real nostalgic spot for the first one, but it's probably been almost 20 years since I read the thing.