Book 47: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

More of a short story/novella than a real book, I read this one through Daily Lit as well. You always hear the title of this story, but I hadn't read it before (or I don't remember reading it). Holmes and Watson investigate a case where it appears a ghost dog scared a man to death. It's mostly told through Watson's adventures as he goes to stay at the man's house with his heir and they try to solve the puzzle. I enjoy Sherlock Holmes stories, but for some reason, I never read them. I have a book of all the original stories together in one volume, but I've only ever read a handful of them. I need to dig it out because they really are enjoyable and it's a good change of pace from fantasy or horror.

Book 46: Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster

This is one of the books in my Nostalgia Trilogy. For some reason, I read 3 books probably when I was 12 or 13, and these books are the ones I always think about when I remember those long ago days. The other two are Slither by John Halkin and Night Warriors by Graham Masterton. I'm constantly checking for these books at used bookstores. It seems like cheating somehow to order them off Amazon or Ebay.

Anyways, Glory Lane is a fun sci-fi book. Some regular humans get caught up in a galaxy spanning adventure. They meet all kinds of aliens and do some neat things. It's a thoroughly enjoyable book. Not too deep or anything, but good fun.

Book 45: Sleepwalk by John Saul

A fairly generic thriller/suspense by one of the genres main guys. A young teacher returns to her small town to find weird things going on with the population. The kids are acting like zombies and the troublemaker adults are dying of strokes. She teams up with the half Indian son of one of the stroke victims and figures out the cause. It was set in an interesting location - the American Southwest. Sop the whole town is fairly isolated and the kids feel like it is the worst place ever. It is everyone's goal to escape when they graduate but most of them know they'll end up working at the same refinery that their parents are at. This one took me a while to get through. I kept putting it down and picking up other things to read instead. But I did finish it and the finale was good in its own way.

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.