{"id":633,"date":"2009-01-29T04:53:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T04:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/01\/29\/the-mystic-arts-of-erasing-all-signs-of-death-review\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:31","slug":"the-mystic-arts-of-erasing-all-signs-of-death-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/01\/29\/the-mystic-arts-of-erasing-all-signs-of-death-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m poking my head above ground briefly to share <a href=\"http:\/\/sacurrent.com\/arts\/story.asp?id=69796\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">my <span style=\"font-style: italic\">San Antonio Current<\/span> review<\/a> of Charlie Huston&#8217;s latest crime thriller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mystic-Arts-Erasing-Signs-Death\/dp\/034550111X\/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1230597615&amp;amp;sr=11-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/reader\/034550111X\/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/514MRl1hXjL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\"> Despite self-aware prose and excessive gore, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death<\/span> barrels at a frenetic and exciting pace to a satisfying, inconclusive threads-akimbo conclusion on page 280. Unfortunately, L.A. resident Huston, in typical Hollywood fashion,felt compelled to tie up all of his dangling story lines and rambles on for another forty pages, sanitizing his otherwise deliciously dirty world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sacurrent.com\/arts\/story.asp?id=69796\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p>Time to return to my burrow.  More geekiness to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m poking my head above ground briefly to share my San Antonio Current review of Charlie Huston&#8217;s latest crime thriller The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. 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