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I can hear the horses.....
This book was the best [money]I ever spent!! I love Stephen King also but his books are usually very confusing and I have to skip pages to keep being inetersted in it. But not with this book!! I couldn't wait to keep reading! Even though it only costed me [little money] at the [local] store I would have spent waaaay more!! As I read this book I could feel myself immersed in the middle of the apocalypse and since it was close to New Year's it kinda freaked me out (although its not the millenium anymore). I felt as if I knew each one of the characters personally and I was right there along with them. It would make and EXCELLENT movie!! Thank you Charles Grant for being such a great writer, I am going out today to find more of your books!! YOU ROCK!!

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Series ends as it began, with a whisper and a chill.
Riders in the Sky is the fourth and final book in the Millenium Quartet. Death, Famine, and Plague have each come riding into town and then been sent packing. Now War is on the rampage. He has also collected his cohorts to make a final stand to bring about an end to this great big mess we call the world. But the surviving adversaries from Symphony (book 1), In the Mood (book 2), and Chariot (book 3) are coming together, albeit it reluctantly, to head the horsemen off at the pass. The final battle for the fate world will be waged, as is the case in all of Grant's stories (both in the series and out), in some small, off the beaten path town. Again emphasis is placed on atmosphere and character, story always being something of a weak point in Grant's writing. Those looking for tale with an autumnal chill to it will find Riders in the Sky well worth galloping through, others looking for something more focused and gritty will have to look elsewhere.

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Late Summer: Early Afternoon
I bought this book on the strength of some other books by this author. After plowing through about 90 some pages and not being able to make heads or tails of what was going on it finally dawned on me that this was a later volume of some ongoing series. I scoured the cover to see if there was some indication of this, but found nothing. A quick visit to Amazon revealed the truth however. This pile of merde is part of a much larger pile of merde going back to Symphony. I have seen other authors attempt to employ cinamatic idioms, but none fail worse than Grant does in this book. From what I have read in this and In The Fog Charles Grant is a great editor, but his own story telling ability sorely lacks. The epitome of all style and no substance.

Go buy the revised version of The Stand and pass on this one. In fact I'll be passing on all future Charles Grant because of the dirty trick he played with this one. Gotta go now and throw the book in the trash.