Floating Dragon

I keep on being drawn back to Peter Straub for my Horror fix. With this author it isn’t just about the nasty stuff: it’s about the presentation. Floating Dragon is a case in point: not only does Straub expose our fears; he toys with them. The plot in a nutshell What you’ve got here is essentially a to......more

🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 [image error] Rich men, trust not in wealth, Gold cannot buy you health, Physic himself must fade, All things to end are made, The plague full swift goes by, I am sick, I must die - Lord have mercy on us! First Impressions 2021 is the year I've been really getting into Peter Straub.  After re......more

This book was really good. I thought it had some pretty dark and twisted parts. I felt like it took a while before anything really started to happen. I suppose this was necessary in order for the readers to get a true sense of who these characters really are. I did start to care quite a bit about a......more

If Peter Straub should ever happen to write another book with Stephen King, then I'm sure to read something else by him. If not, this is where we part ways. Grindingly Slow Moving Dragon was an ordeal and one of the few books in later years that I did finish despite feeling the way I did about the la......more