Richard Parks (1) (1956–)
Author of Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter
For other authors named Richard Parks, see the disambiguation page.
Series
Works by Richard Parks
The Man Who Carved Skulls 5 copies
Empty Places 4 copies
Moon Viewing At Shijo Bridge 4 copies
Night In Dark Perfection 3 copies
The Manor of Lost Time 2 copies
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #100 2 copies
A Hint of Jasmine 2 copies
Skin Deep 2 copies
A Place to Begin 1 copy
My Lord Teaser 1 copy
Another Kind of Glamour 1 copy
The Bride Doll (short story) 1 copy
The Right God {short story} 1 copy
On The Wheel 1 copy
Sanji's Demon Pt. I 1 copy
The Sorrow of Rain 1 copy
Fox Tails 1 copy
The Mansion Of Bones 1 copy
Courting The Lady Scythe 1 copy
Lady of the Ghost Willow 1 copy
Sanji's Demon Pt. Ii 1 copy
Associated Works
Prom Night: All Original Tales of That Special, Once-In-A-Lifetime Night as No One Has Ever Experienced It! (1999) — Contributor — 77 copies
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 12 — Contributor — 3 copies
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- Legal name
- Parks, Billy Richard
- Other names
- Parks, Rick
- Birthdate
- 1956-06-15
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Newton, Mississippi, USA
- Short biography
- Richard Parks lives in Mississippi with his wife and a varying number of cats. He collects Japanese woodblock prints but otherwise has no hobbies since he discovered that they all require time. His fiction has appeared in Asimov's SF, Realms of Fantasy, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and numerous anthologies, including Year's Best Fantasy and Fantasy: The Best of the Year. He's been a finalist for both the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature.
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This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot. wordpress.leafmarks.com & Bookstooge's Reviews on the Road Facebook Group by Bookstooge's Exalted Permission. Title: Demon Hunter Series: Yamada Monogatari Author: Richard Parks Rating: 2 of 5 Stars Genre: SFF Pages: 288 Format: Kindle Synopsis: Yamata is a generalized demon hunter. Spirits, changlings, ogres, etc, he can deal with them all. Set in historic Japan, this is a book of short stories about Yamata and his adventures. My Thoughts: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into mine. I was expecting this read to be very anime'y. What I got was 1920's crime noir transposed over a historic Japan. I kept waiting for the main character, Yamata, to puff on a stogey and shoot someone with a .45. And I kept imagining Humphrey Bogart in a kimono. And then near the end the author crossed one of the lines I've drawn for myself in regards to what I will and will not read and that crossed him off of any future reads. Even without that, I kept looking at the percentage on my kindle to see if I was almost done yet. Never a good sign. "… (more)
The story was compelling, but the prose was so outrageously flat that every plot twist came as a weird kind of whiplash surprise - there was no tension, no build-up, no sense of what was going on. Apparently this character started out in short stories, which might be better.
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- Rating
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Darn, but I love this one. This is the good stuff.
Though perhaps not for everyone.
This is not for religious people. At least nobody too deep in Christianity IMO.