What are you currently reading?

[3pidemiC]

I know that a good amount of the people here still practice that ancient art of reading, so what book are you currently reading?





I just opened up...

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Really picks up the pace quickly. Didn't really want to put it down but I had to go to work...

[Danny]

im rereading:

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since volume 5 is due out in 3 or 4 weeks and im building up the excitement again.

[ProfessorChaos]

i'm currently reading this thread:

http://forum.homepageofthedead.com/showthread.php?t=12443

[clanglee]

I just finished reading Wicked. . .I just don't know what to think. Not a story so much as a treatise on the nature of evil. It was . . . alright.

[Mike70]

reading this for about the 50th time

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greatest story ever told. two powerful states slugging it out for control. the romans being pushed to the brink but finally being led to victory by a man too young to hold any of the offices that come with imperium, but he is sent to spain with proconsular authority at the unheard of age of 25. he (and his younger brother lucius, who supported him throughout his entire career) proceeds to clear spain of three carthaginian armies after spectacular victories at new carthage, baecula and Ilipa, finally he is able to able to cross from sicily into africa, thrash carthage at the siege of utica and finally defeat hannibal head on at zama. publius cornelius scipio was the dude.

[Kaos]

Just cracked this: http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/15/road_narrowweb__300x485,0.jpg

[Mike70]

Just cracked this: http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/15/road_narrowweb__300x485,0.jpg

that is a damn fine read, ron. should be a quick one too. the book to me is like listening to jazz, it just keeps falling forward into something new. i love the way there is not one single wasted word in the entire work. very spare prose and very little use of punctuation.

[clanglee]

Just cracked this: http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/15/road_narrowweb__300x485,0.jpg

This in next on my list

[Tricky]

Just finished this last week
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and now reading this

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Im going through another phase of reading kings stuff :) just after sunset is a collection of short stories,the first two were very good i thought,the third leaves you wondering,the fourth i was trying to read as i was falling asleep last night & the words kept jumbling up & not making sense so il try again from the start when im more awake :lol:

[capncnut]

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Really enjoyed this book. It's a well-researched slice of London history during the post-fire reconstruction. Everything from how people socialised, childbirth to death, pharmacy, music and entertainment, ye olde fashion, restaurants, coffeehouses and taverns. Basically it is a reflection on London life in the 1700's and a pretty good read.

[DubiousComforts]

Lovecraft.

[bigmonkey2582]

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c317/arliana4/cositas/380px-AmericanPsychoBook.jpg

[ProfessorChaos]

congrats, monkey. your obsession with american psycho has annoyed me enough to make me change my avatar...:rolleyes:

[bigmonkey2582]

Lol Woot, I've got the monopoly on AP avatars now. :P

[LoSTBoY]

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Read the first Omnibus quite quickly.

Didn't expect much from this but there is plenty chaos and skaven in it, which I like.

[MoonSylver]

http://www.mackbolan.com/covers/ex/019.jpg

I'm currently re-reading my Executioner collection. Polished off the 1st eighteen & started #19 today. Loves me some Mack Bolan I does.

[Kaos]

that is a damn fine read, ron. should be a quick one too. the book to me is like listening to jazz, it just keeps falling forward into something new. i love the way there is not one single wasted word in the entire work. very spare prose and very little use of punctuation.

I am about 70 pages from done. I like it a lot even though it plays upon the emotion and fears of being a parent. Yet I think it is accessible to most folks who want a good read.

[Neil]

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Tis a looooooong read.... and I don't read much! Read the first of the two books in it, so just the second (longer) book to go! Argh!

[DawnGirl27]

The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
234 US Marines in Korea trying to hold a hill while severely outnumbered by the Chinese. Three-fourths of Fox Company are killed but they still manage to hold out until reinforcements arrive. Amazing book.

[Mike70]

I am about 70 pages from done. I like it a lot even though it plays upon the emotion and fears of being a parent. Yet I think it is accessible to most folks who want a good read.

i read an interview with cormac mccarthy recently where he talks about that very thing. apparently, he wrote the boy in the book to closely resemble his son.


McCarthy said the inspiration for The Road came during a 2003 visit to El Paso, Texas, with his young son. Imagining what the city might look like in the future, he pictured "fires on the hill" and thought about his son. He took some initial notes but did not return to the idea until a few years later, while in Ireland. Then, the novel came to him quickly, and he dedicated it to his son, John Francis McCarthy

[kortick]

I got this as an xmas gift.
destined to be a classic I'm sure.
I never knew bigfoots were into womens underwear.
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[Chic Freak]

I am currently reading:


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and re-skim-reading:


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Bonfire of the Vanities is a bit like a crap 60s version of American Psycho minus the sex and violence so far (admittedly I'm only 1/5 of the way through)... not that it was actually written in the 60s... it just feels like a hippie writing about the 80s :bored: I will try to finish it though.

Subculture: The Meaning of Style is great, even though I don't necessarily agree with 100% of it, it is a very interesting look at mainly punk.

The next book I'm planning on reading is:


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I saw her on a TV show the other day (honest! She was a talking head on some MTV programme) and according to her Wiki entry she's had a pretty interesting life!

[Tricky]

I think we've all seen some of jennas "oscar performances" chic :lol:

[Chic Freak]

I think we've all seen some of jennas "oscar performances" chic :lol:

I'm probably the only person in the world who actually hasn't :lol: I'm quite tempted to now though, she was adorable in that MTV thing, and I usually find that whole bleached hair/ fake tan/ pink lip gloss/ silicon D cups look pretty dull.

[Bruiser235]

I'm reading "Rorke's Drift - 1879" by Ian Knight. Hell of a battle. I've read it before, but years ago. An easy read.

[krakenslayer]

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Tis a looooooong read.... and I don't read much! Read the first of the two books in it, so just the second (longer) book to go! Argh!

FANTASTIC book. I'm currently on the last book in the Endymion Omnibus (the sequel story to the Hyperion books) and I really feel like I've been on a 400 year journey. It has, after all, taken me the best part of a year to get through the first three books. :D

[Neil]

FANTASTIC book. I'm currently on the last book in the Endymion Omnibus (the sequel story to the Hyperion books) and I really feel like I've been on a 400 year journey. It has, after all, taken me the best part of a year to get through the first three books. :D

Finding the beginning of the second book a bit slow... But I'll keep battling on :)

[PJoseph]

I just finished a non-fiction book, In Heaven, Everything Is Fine. It tells the story of a musician, Peter Ivers, who helped bring the L.A. New Wave to the forefront in the late 70's, early 80s. People like John Belushi, Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase - they are all part of this story. (Anyone remember New Wave Theater on Night Flight on USA?)

And then it gets into the details of Ivers brutal murder in a downtown loft.

It's very well written and if you have any interest in punk/new wave music of the 80s, it's very detailed.

pJ

[Mike70]

(Anyone remember New Wave Theater on Night Flight on USA?)

hell yes i do. loved that segment and night flight in general. i watched that show pretty much every weekend. you never quite knew what you were going to see on there but it was almost always something really cool.

[CornishCorpse]

Hogfather by terry pratchett. I cant get enough and he finally got his knighthood, and Bonfire of the Vanities? Ive been meaning to read that for a while had it reccomended by a few. Worth the read Chic?

[Chic Freak]

Hogfather by terry pratchett. I cant get enough and he finally got his knighthood, and Bonfire of the Vanities? Ive been meaning to read that for a while had it reccomended by a few. Worth the read Chic?

Meh. It's okay. It just feels a bit dated and "oh isn't materialism shocking and terrible, boo hoo" to me. As I say though, I'm not that far in (it's a long one) so maybe it'll pick up.

Hogfather is ace though, I can read Discworld novels till I puke :D

[CornishCorpse]

Ah that sounds like fun? Lol Its quite infamous but somethings like films its a time and place sort of thing but meh, maybe give it a read. Need something on the go and read hogfather to many times ( christmas tradition :D was too busy at christmas )

Anyone want to reccomend me some reading? Only rule is no fantasy, fantasy gets old real fast in my mind all the wizards and dragons cept for pratchett o course and he gives me my fix.

[Mike70]

Anyone want to reccomend me some reading? Only rule is no fantasy, fantasy gets old real fast in my mind all the wizards and dragons cept for pratchett o course and he gives me my fix.

aldous huxley's post apocalyptic novel - "ape and essence."

walter miller - "A Canticle for Leibowitz"

poul anderson - "Tau Zero" and "New America"

if you are into a good ghost story, look up M.R. James. he wrote some of the best ghost stories you're bound to come across, particulary in "ghost stories of an antiquary" and "more ghost stories."

[CornishCorpse]

Will keep an eye out for all of them. Ape and Essence sounds like a good title and Im always up for a good ghost story.

[Mike70]

Ape and Essence sounds like a good title.

it is a great book. it is about an expedition from new zealand that returns to the coast of california a century or so after a nuclear war and the the type of society that they find.

[CornishCorpse]

Wow that does sound like a good idea. Hopefully its quite a thick book aswell, problem when I find a good book is I always want more but if the book is like 200 pages its nowhere near enough. Thanks for the heads up and in return I reccomend day of the triffids if you havent already read it Mike.

[Mike70]

Wow that does sound like a good idea. Hopefully its quite a thick book aswell, problem when I find a good book is I always want more but if the book is like 200 pages its nowhere near enough. Thanks for the heads up and in return I reccomend day of the triffids if you havent already read it Mike.

i've read day of the triffids but thanks.


"New America" by Poul Anderson is really cool if you are interested in how societies form and the choices people make in forming them. it is about a group of americans, who call themselves "jeffersonians" rebelling against a world govt. and going off, setting up themselves on a new planet and attempting to recreate the republic, while adapting themselves to their new world.

[clanglee]

Only rule is no fantasy, fantasy gets old real fast in my mind all the wizards and dragons cept for pratchett o course and he gives me my fix.

Can't help ya then. Fantasy is almost all I read. If you ever get a wild hair up your ass for some tho. . try anything by Steven Brust. Expecially his Taltos series. Awesome writer, awesome stories, and quite a bit different than the usual sword and sorcery fare.

[DjfunkmasterG]

I am reading the PINK SHEET. (SNickers)

No it is not a magazine for Lesbians. It is the FDA news letter that keeps me up to date on all the new laws, drug approvals and changes in the auditing techniques of FDA and BLA auditors.

[3pidemiC]

Just finished Day By Day Armageddon. Good book. I think because it's written in diary form that it becomes very....page-turn-worthy. Although, I was as little dissapointed with the lack of an ending. The intro at the beginning of the book leads you to believe that it's going to end on a cliff hangar, but there wasn't one. Ah well, just have to wait for the sequel.

[ProfessorChaos]

have began to re-read bret easton ellis's "the informers", a glimpse at drug-addled, sex-crazed, and immoral life in LA in the early 80's through the eyes of several emotionally vacant snobs.

wasn't aware till recently that they are making a movie out of this. i believe this is brad renfro's last completed film. here's the trailer for those interested.

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[DjfunkmasterG]

I am currently reading... the forums. :D

[Chic Freak]

a glimpse at drug-addled, sex-crazed, and immoral life in LA in the early 80's through the eyes of several emotionally vacant snobs.

Sounds like my kind of book/ film!

[DjfunkmasterG]

have began to re-read bret easton ellis's "the informers", a glimpse at drug-addled, sex-crazed, and immoral life in LA in the early 80's through the eyes of several emotionally vacant snobs.

wasn't aware till recently that they are making a movie out of this. i believe this is brad renfro's last completed film. here's the trailer for those interested.

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Sounds like the life of an LA porn star.

[MikePizzoff]

Just finished Day By Day Armageddon. Good book. I think because it's written in diary form that it becomes very....page-turn-worthy. Although, I was as little dissapointed with the lack of an ending. The intro at the beginning of the book leads you to believe that it's going to end on a cliff hangar, but there wasn't one. Ah well, just have to wait for the sequel.

You probably already know this, but JUST IN CASE...

That book is written by a HPotD veteran (I guess I should leave him nameless). When he used to post and be social with the members here, it was long before that was a book. It was originally an online blog. I can remember first reading it when he was only on his second or third entry and immediately becoming hooked. I read it for a while then forgot about it for a few months... when I returned to it, he had announced that he was working on creating a book using the entries.

[3pidemiC]

Crazy...I had no idea that he posted here.

I knew that it was a blog before though.

[MikePizzoff]

Crazy...I had no idea that he posted here.

I knew that it was a blog before though.

He doesn't really post much anymore; he stops in every few months or so and will make 1 or 2 posts then re-disappear. He used to post a bunch on the old forums, though.

[3pidemiC]

Ahh, I see.

Just started:

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Didn't really want to put it down last night, but I had to sleep. It really wastes no time getting into it.

[ludovico]

roadshow by Neil Peart

[Chic Freak]

Just renewed The Bonfire of the Vanities at the library. Update: it still feels outdated and pretentious.

My next pieces of C20th US literature I want to tackle are Another Country by James Baldwin and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos... i figure if I read them both at the same time I can alternate between comedy and seriousness and hopefully not get bored with either! Plus I like stuff written around the 1920s, it's like the 80s but without the yuppie-health craze, just long island ice tea and cocaine all the way :)


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[krakenslayer]

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After nearly a year of reading, I finally finished Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos. It's a fantastic, deep, intelligent and very exciting read, but all four books combined (into two volumes, essentially comprising one epic story) make Lord of the Rings look like...

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...THIS book, which I finished in one evening, right after I got done with Hyperion. SOME SPOILERS TO COME.

Now, I don't wanna bad mouth it too much, as the author is obviously just a horror geek like us, but it was a really flimsy, trashy read. That can be a good thing sometimes, but I was just coming down off Dan Simmons' masterpiece, and it really highlighted all the flaws in this book. The plot is interesting initially, an unending apocalyptic rainstorm causes large underground-dwelling beasts to rise to the surface and terrorise the residents of a small hilltop settlement (one of the only places still above the water). The first characters we are introduced to are great - two feisty old timers trying to survive as the world falls apart - the opening is melancholy and filled with foreboding, it really drew me in at first. But it's not long before things start to wear thin: Keene uses a lame Deus-Ex Machina device to drop in a couple of wafer-thin characters (and I'm not talking malnutrition) onto the hill/island, who proceed to tell their own tale of survival in a large city, complete with ultra-generic cultist bad guys, weak and improbable romance, and a poor man's Cthulhu. It's like for the first few chapters Keene has been engrossed in his work, crafting a chilling sense of isolation and loss, then got bored after an hour and decided to repopulate the island with a bunch of in-name-only characters and make the story about them instead. I mean, its like he stopped caring about what he was writing - the second half of the story is filled with unintentionally hilarious dialogue along the lines of: "The worms!! It's like they're REANIMATING HIM!".

Well, at least I didn't waste more than a few hours on it.

[MikePizzoff]

I've read it before, but I received it in hardback format for x-mas so I figured I'd give it another read since I loved it so much.

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Also (very minimally) working on The Shining.


It's a pain in the ass reading when I'm in school. I rarely have time to take in a book and if I do, I end up forgetting everything I read because I have so much scholastic material on the brain. :mad:

[ludovico]

Too fat to fish - Artie Lang :hyper:

I hate your guts - mr yimmy norton

[DawnGirl27]

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780641927010&MICTID=37

Good one if you are interested in the Franklin expedition and the crew's fate.

[ProfessorChaos]

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this one is another good book about the franklin expedition, detailing the findings of autopsies conducted on the three sailors who they exhumed after 138 years.

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[Tricky]

Ive moved onto this now
http://inspirationlab.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/shepard_fairey_george_orwell_1984.jpg

its one of the classics that ive never read & feel like i ought to have done seen as its so widely quoted & referenced,im getting into it too,interesting story & almost a social commentary these days :eek:

[Mike70]

i'm re-reading this gem, a scifi classic of moumental proportions that has, sadly, been forgotten by most folks today.

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it is about a huge, multi-generation colony ship that along the way to its destination, some sort of war/civil disturbance breaks out among the crew/passengers. the story picks up 23 generations later, the hydroponic labs and greenhouses have overrun most of the ship, the stock animals run wild and the people have reverted to various states of barbarism, some more so than others.

the story revolves around a hunter from the "quarters" tribe who with a couple of other members of his tribe gradually uncovers the facts behind their old myths and legends.

[MikePizzoff]

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this one is another good book about the franklin expedition, detailing the findings of autopsies conducted on the three sailors who they exhumed after 138 years.

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Please give me some details about the autopsies!

[ProfessorChaos]

Please give me some details about the autopsies!

well, i've just completed the chapter describing the actual unearthing of the bodies, i've not made it to see what they tissue samples collected revealed. but i've read another book (one that i picked up at a book fair in elementary school) about this, and the findings of the autopsies showed significant levels of lead in the bodies of the three sailors. this is due to the processes used for preserving food stores in tins that were soldered with lead.

this led to the theory that the ships became icebound (nothing unusual for arctic explorations at the time) for an extra winter, and with many of the crew sick, weak, feeling the effects of scurvy and lead poisoning, the ships were abandoned and the sailors headed south with life boats filled with supplies that they dragged with them. all sorts of bones and artifacts have been discovered over the years by arctic explorers, and even 130+ years later they were still finding soles from boots, tin cans, etc. after analyzing the bones and determining they came from caucasians, most of the remains were assumed to be those of the ship's crew...and several bones had knife marks on them, indicating that the men had to resort to cannibalism during their last days.

as far as the bodies, they were in near perfect condition (or as best condition possile for a 138 year-old corpse). it took the men digging two days using pickaxes and shovels to even reach the first coffin, and then they had to use water to thaw the bodies out. rigor mortis wasn't an issue, and according to the doctor performing the autopsies and overseeing the excavation, the bodies, once lifted from their coffins, were very limp as if they were just passed out. a pretty good read if you dig history, mysteries, and the whole man vs. nature and exploring thing.

here's more pics of the frozen sailors:
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/stories/mummies/images/william_braine.jpg

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/arc/beattie.jpg

oh, and apparently one of them has a myspace page now.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=397817453

[Chic Freak]

http://inspirationlab.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/shepard_fairey_george_orwell_1984.jpg

almost a social commentary these days :eek:

Definitely... follow it up with Brave New World if you want to be spooked on that score (admittedly it's been about 7 years since I read either).

[DawnGirl27]

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this one is another good book about the franklin expedition, detailing the findings of autopsies conducted on the three sailors who they exhumed after 138 years.

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Yes, Professor - have read this also and is a fascinating read! The preservation of the bodies is incredible.

Mike - if interested in this subject, definately read the book. Excellent resource, along with Resolute, which I suggested above.

[3pidemiC]

Just finished Dead Sea. Damn you Brian Keene! Must you always depress me with your endings!

Moving onto...

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[axlish]

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[Eagle Eye]

Stephen King's Carrie.

[strayrider]

1984, George Orwell.

Speer reloading manual, 13th edition.

:D

-stray-

ps -- I'm a "prole", ain't I? :sneaky:

[Crappingbear]

Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey. Spree killer Serge Storms returns with is sidekick Coleman who is eternanlly addled on meth, booze, and every other drug know to man. Serge takes on jewel smugglers while continuing his insane tour of Florida tourist destinations. Good, fun stuff.

[lullubelle]

Stephen Kings - The Stand

[DawnGirl27]

The Stranger Beside Me, by Ann Rule, about Ted Bundy

[Mike70]

New America by Poul Anderson. a scifi classic and something i think a lot of you would find interesting.

[MikePizzoff]

This thread.

[blind2d]

Aww, Mike... why you gotta be like that? Here's the list:
Moby Dick - Russel
World War Z - 2D
The Color of Magic - Murdoc
Pheonix - Noodle
The Wordy Shipmates - Myself

[capncnut]

New America by Poul Anderson. a scifi classic and something i think a lot of you would find interesting.
I'll look out for that as I read Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet a few years ago. Wasn't bad.

[LoSTBoY]

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[Mike70]

I'll look out for that as I read Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet a few years ago. Wasn't bad.

Poul Anderson is one of my fav scifi authors ever. most of his stuff kicks total ass. he is certainly one of the most "american" writers that's ever picked up a pen as well. that is one of the things that i've always liked about him but i understand how it turns some folks off.

[Chic Freak]

Just finished bastard bonfire of the fecking vanities on the train home. All I can say is, if you feel like you should read it, get an abridged version or something. it goes on way too long.

i totally failed to bid for jenn jamerson's book on ebay; but now my next read is going to be my val's day gift from liam, holywood babylon.


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[MikePizzoff]

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Not very far into it, but so far it's great. A must-read for any fan of good (read: true) hip-hop.

[SRP76]

Just finished another really good zombie book:

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[Crappingbear]

Just finished another really good zombie book:

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I picked that one up but haven't started it yet. Was needing some good humor so am re-reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

[AcesandEights]

Just finished another really good zombie book:

One of my buddies (who I have slowly been bringing over to zombie fandom) picked that book up last week. Glad to hear it was good read for you. I'll have to pick it up myself soon.

[capncnut]

Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

[Mike70]

Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

part of your "apocalypse now" total immersion project?

i just finished reading "john gabriel borkmann" and "when we dead wake" by henrik ibsen, second greatest writer ever in my not so humble opinion.

[Chic Freak]

Was needing some good humor so am re-reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

Don't know if I've already said but Good Omens is my favourite novel ever! :D


Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

I need to read that as part of my C20th US Lit session I'm on atm :)

Just finished:


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... was a little disappointed actually, it seemed over-ambitious. It went on way too long, some of the fantasy elements were too fantastical if you know what I mean (I don't like the whole "because it's magic" explanations for things) and it just seemed like a longer, weaker version of Good Omens tbh. I finished it but I won't bother re-reading it. I think I prefer Gaiman's short stories and comics.

[Crappingbear]

Don't know if I've already said but Good Omens is my favourite novel ever! :D



I need to read that as part of my C20th US Lit session I'm on atm :)

Just finished:


http://shoestringtraveller.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/075532281902lzzzzzzz1.jpg

... was a little disappointed actually, it seemed over-ambitious. It went on way too long, some of the fantasy elements were too fantastical if you know what I mean (I don't like the whole "because it's magic" explanations for things) and it just seemed like a longer, weaker version of Good Omens tbh. I finished it but I won't bother re-reading it. I think I prefer Gaiman's short stories and comics.

I like American Gods, its another favorite. For me, a big part of the fun was trying to identify the various gods, demons, etc...

Recently read Escape from Hell by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle which is the sequel to the great old fantasy book Inferno. Inferno told the story of Allen Carpenter a sci fi writer who gets drunk with fans and falls out a window at a convention and wakes up in Dante's Hell. He is helped by one of the damned who says he knows the way out of hell. Later its revealed his helper is Benito Mussolini. Very cool little book. Escape from Hell finds Allen still in hell after choosing to stay and help others make the journey out. He ends up helping poetress Sylvia Plath and the book chronicles their journey. Its not as good as Inferno, perhaps because the gimmick is essentially redone but still fun to see modern people the authors put in Hell.

Picked up a new zom book, Breathers, by S.G. Browne. Haven't read it yet but looks like a good black comedy. Here is the amazon link with cover and reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Breathers-Zombies-S-G-Browne/dp/0767930614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239489154&sr=1-1

[DawnGirl27]

The James Herriot series - anyone ever read them? I wanted to be a vet when I was young, and have reread these books every couple of years. The stories are touching, funny, and make you not want to put the books down.
If you love animals, you need to read these (that last sentence so just sounded like a Reading Rainbow thing! :p).

[Chic Freak]

I like American Gods, its another favorite. For me, a big part of the fun was trying to identify the various gods, demons, etc...

I totally failed at that, lol. There were many that I still don't know who they were supposed to be because they were just briefly described in passing and never explicitly identified!

[shootemindehead]

http://www.constablerobinson.com/images/book/large/9781845295189.jpg

and...

http://i8.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/3e/37/d975_1.JPG


Tony

[DjfunkmasterG]

A screenplay for a Zombie film set in the 14/1500's called The Pestilence.

To be honest it is quite boring, and the dialog is horrible. it feels like a cheap rip off of Army of Darkness, but I am only at page 9. So hopefully it improves by page 20, which if it doesn't I am running it through the shredder

[3pidemiC]

Finally finished Angles and Demons. Really good book. I am glad that there was a final twist at the end or I would have been a tad dissapointed with the way things would have turned out.

[LoSTBoY]

Don't know if I've already said but Good Omens is my favourite novel ever! :D



I need to read that as part of my C20th US Lit session I'm on atm :)

Just finished:


http://shoestringtraveller.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/075532281902lzzzzzzz1.jpg

... was a little disappointed actually, it seemed over-ambitious. It went on way too long, some of the fantasy elements were too fantastical if you know what I mean (I don't like the whole "because it's magic" explanations for things) and it just seemed like a longer, weaker version of Good Omens tbh. I finished it but I won't bother re-reading it. I think I prefer Gaiman's short stories and comics.

I enjoyed this, I was strangely moved by the rat girl Anastasia (sp?).

Anyway, currently reading:

http://pds8.egloos.com/pds/200807/04/73/d0045073_486d92a71f35a.jpg

[Chic Freak]

I enjoyed this, I was strangely moved by the rat girl Anastasia (sp?).

Eh? Who was she?

[LoSTBoY]

Eh? Who was she?

Ah, just realised I'm thinking of 'Smoke and Mirriors' :p

In that case it was not such a good book as I can hardly remember anything of it, just "Thor" and the description of some of the gods in their true form.

[EvilNed]

http://server40136.uk2net.com/%7Ewpower/images/product_images/9780743248396.jpg

[Chic Freak]

Ah, just realised I'm thinking of 'Smoke and Mirriors' :p

In that case it was not such a good book as I can hardly remember anything of it, just "Thor" and the description of some of the gods in their true form.

I've read Smoke and Mirrors too and I don't think I remember that... was that the woman who ate the dog??

The only ones I remember are that one, the alternate Victorian universe one and the troll one.

[krakenslayer]

Just started Day of the Triffids as I've been on a John Wyndham kick (I LOVE and highly recommend The Chrysalids and The Kraken Wakes). It seems to be delivering pretty well so far, jumping straight into some very haunting stuff.

I've not been able to tear through it as much as I'd want though, as I've just started a training period for a new telephone banking job complete with a shitload of product knowledge and compliance-based homework that is really refusing to comply with my braincells, and at the same time I'm doing an OU degree in English Language and Literature...:|

[LoSTBoY]

I've read Smoke and Mirrors too and I don't think I remember that... was that the woman who ate the dog??

The only ones I remember are that one, the alternate Victorian universe one and the troll one.

I just had a look at Smoke and Mirrors, its all short stories so its not that.

It's Neverwhere! Thats the book! >< Damn my pickled mind!

It's near the start when he gets taken to the Rat god, which is actually a rat. The Rat tells his worshipers to help him to the market to find Door (I think thats her name), Anastasia is the one volunteered to take him.

They get on really well and there might have been a small romance there, but as they cross the bridge which is in complete darkness she is taken by something. Short but sweet character.

[Chic Freak]

It's Neverwhere!

Ah okay, haven't read that one! ;) I've been slightly put off Gaiman's novels after American Gods but maybe I should give that one a go.

While I wait for the 2nd and 3rd True Blood novels to come in at the library (just ordered them in yesterday!) I am now currently reading:


http://www.thephildickian.com/images/philipkdick/philip_k_dick_dad_pb1.jpg

After watching the film I was always put off reading the book as I thought it would be really heavy going, impenetrable sci-fi, but chapter 1 at least is very straightforward!

[Crappingbear]

I could see how American Gods would put off those who aren't familiar with the source mythology. I always liked that so as I read the book I had a ton of those "wait a minute" moments where I thought I knew who he referred to and was almost always right except I got Shadow totally wrong funny enough.

I travel the U.S. extensively and especially love the the old Indian country in the western half of the U.S. and especially like that mythology/religion of the various tribes. I nailed "whisky jack" immediately which most never figure out.

But all in all I like the language and tone of the book. Gaiman sets a very definite tempo that marches relentlessly toward armageddon and yet it has all the time in the world to flesh out Shadows lonesomeness and want to let others manipulate him (or so it seems).

In my op, American Gods is as great of an American Gothic Novel as Good Omens is a spirited English Comedy. Both are great reading and I highly recommend them.

[Chic Freak]

American Gods is as great of an American Gothic Novel as Good Omens is a spirited English Comedy.

That might be it actually- perhaps the American-ness of American Gods made it harder for me to really "get" most of it (not being familiar with 95% of the mythology or any of the locations) whereas the essential English-ness of Good Omens tapped straight into my brain and made me fall in love with it immediately :)

[ProfessorChaos]

just got a copy of "johnny got his gun" in the mail yesterday after hearing good things about it. anyone ever read this?

i'm aware that it's very much an anti-war novel and could possibly counter many of my feelings about the subject, but i'm not that close-minded where i can't enjoy great writing due to personal feelings...

[kortick]

I found this author Thomas Ligotti and he
is really something.

The book is titled "my work is not yet done'
and it really is like nothing i read in a while.

http://sfgospel.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341ce22f53ef0120a5c53d1e970c-320wi

Twisted stuff, but written in an almost Lovecraft fashion.

[ProfessorChaos]

thread necromancy again, but just wanted to share that i'm currently being blown away by stephen king's 11/22/63 and i highly recommend it to king fans and those with an interest in time travel and/or the jfk assassination.

[Neil]

I'm on a bit of a Arthur C Clarke run at the moment. This includes:-

A Fall Of Moondust (1961)
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
The Ghosts From The Grand Bank (1990)
Richter 10 (1996)
The Light Of Other Days (2000)
Just starting... The Hammer Of God (1993)

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highly recommend it to king fans and those with an interest in time travel and/or the jfk assassination.On my list!

[EvilNed]

Metro 2034, self-explanatory
Alla monster måste dö (All Monsters Must Die), a non-fiction book written about a trip to North Korea.

[Mike70]

Lots of things in Danish...hmm

[krisvds]

The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler.

Brilliant.

[Mike70]

I'm on a bit of a Arthur C Clarke run at the moment. This includes:-



have you ever read "the city and the stars" by Clarke? if not, you should give it a look.

"the years of the city" by Fredrik Pohl is a good read as well...

[Danny]

Finally cracking open DUNE, i always considered the movie garbage, but now the hate for it makes sense.

[clanglee]

I have breezed through the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher recently. They are pretty awesome. I'm on book 9 right now. . . loving it. Gonna be sad when I am caught up.

[Neil]

I have breezed through the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher recently. They are pretty awesome. I'm on book 9 right now. . . loving it. Gonna be sad when I am caught up.

Not heard of them before - Worth a read then?

[clanglee]

Yeah. . sort of magic/noir. . . like a snarky Sam Spade in an urban fantasy setting. First person perspective. Very self aware. Not deep stuff at all, but really great fluff with a suprising charm. Just Fun

[wayzim]

Actually just finished rereading The Hunger Games trilogy ( which sis got me last Xmas, because I like dystopian/end of the world books and movies ) and I've decided it's still a decent series. Of course, as a much older reader than its intended audience, there's alot of 'I've read this before. ' moments.

I've also been reading a nonfic book by C.S.Lewis, based off of a radio series which he performed during World War II, called 'Mere Christianity. ' given to me by this sweet young lady who life-guarded at my pool this summer. Although it's not as fun as The Screwtape Letters, it is still very much the work of a spiritual intellectual and is quietly specific as to what should matter most in being a Christian.

Wayne Z

[BillyRay]

Just picked up a book about the history of National Lampoon. as Michael O'Donohue & Doug Kenney are comedy gods to me, it's been an enlightening read...

[Neil]

Actually just finished rereading The Hunger Games trilogy
I enjoyed them, but I found them a bit up and down in quality/interest.

[wayzim]

I enjoyed them, but I found them a bit up and down in quality/interest.

It's the sad fact that we are no longer young readers, I think. And there were always bits within the over-all history of Panem which I still question how it can work. In all honesty, as she endlessly shifted between hero and antihero, Katniss sort of grated on me by the end of the second book. Still, alot of that comes from my over familiarity with the genre.
And I still haven't seen the first movie yet.

Wayne Z

[Mike70]

I have breezed through the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher recently. They are pretty awesome. I'm on book 9 right now. . . loving it. Gonna be sad when I am caught up.

The Dresden Files was a decent show too...

[Kaos]

Recently finished Stephen King's 11/2​2/63, and I just started Robert Heinlein's unabridged Stranger in a Strange Land.

[Crappingbear]

Well.....its been....years fellas. I recognize a few names from the old days. Howdy.

The Prophets of Smoked Meat: A Journey Through Texas Barbeque by Daniel Vaughn. There is only one bbq and that is Texas bbq. Forget that pretender crap in Kansas City or that garbage pulled pork in the Carolinas. Vaughn takes you on a MASSIVE road trip through Texas with the good and bad of the Republic of Texas bbq. Its a large hardbound book with great photos, recipes, maps, etc... If you worship the gods of smoked meat, then get this book.

[Neil]

Well.....its been....years fellas. I recognize a few names from the old days. Howdy.

The Prophets of Smoked Meat: A Journey Through Texas Barbeque by Daniel Vaughn. There is only one bbq and that is Texas bbq. Forget that pretender crap in Kansas City or that garbage pulled pork in the Carolinas. Vaughn takes you on a MASSIVE road trip through Texas with the good and bad of the Republic of Texas bbq. Its a large hardbound book with great photos, recipes, maps, etc... If you worship the gods of smoked meat, then get this book.

A BBQ road trip? OK! That's different at least!

[Danny]

Finished DUNE the other day. First half is great, like a sci-fi game of thrones, then it turns into avatar "white man goes native, but still shows how hes better than them" horseshit and ends in full wish fullfilment "and then my literary avatar won everything and became literal emperor of the universe"...

I wouldnt recommend it honestly. Not sure why it gets so much praise.

[AcesandEights]

I wouldnt recommend it honestly. Not sure why it gets so much praise.

More because it was landmark for its time. You're looking back through the cultural detritus of a lot of things built upon similar concepts and that makes it look pedestrian.

[Danny]

More because it was landmark for its time. You're looking back through the cultural detritus of a lot of things built upon similar concepts and that makes it look pedestrian.

ah, Charles Schultz syndrome then.

[Mike70]

I just started Robert Heinlein's unabridged Stranger in a Strange Land.

My aunt, who loved sci-fi and reading as much as i do, left me a first edition of Stranger - with the dust jacket intact and in nearly perfect shape. One of the nicest things anyone ever gave me.

[wayzim]

My aunt, who loved sci-fi and reading as much as i do, left me a first edition of Stranger - with the dust jacket intact and in nearly perfect shape. One of the nicest things anyone ever gave me.

Luv Luv this book, but then I'm a child of the sixties and seventies so it's almost a requirement ... :D

And with a harem of hotties, Jubal's Angels? as well ... as an intellectual horndog, I so grokked this.

Wayne Z

[krisvds]

My wife (actually we're not married, but hey, she's the mother of our two sons) gave me a huge box in gift wrap paper. Inside I found the six volumes of Otomo's original Akira manga.

Finished reading them the other day. Mind blown.

[Philly_SWAT]

Currently, I am reading a thread entitled "What are you currently reading?" on homepageofthedead.com

[Neil]

Currently, I am reading a thread entitled "What are you currently reading?" on homepageofthedead.com

*smack!*

[Mike70]

I'm reading Liebe Deinen Nächsten by Remarque. yeah, he wrote other books beside Im Westen Nichts Neues.

[dracenstein]

Reading Son of Perdition, by Wendy Alec, part 3 of the Chronicles of Brothers series. Got all four published volumes of a planned seven. Follows the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer from God's plan to create Man, with the first part actually called The Fall of Lucifer, and follows three Earthly brothers, Jason, Adrian and Nicholas de Vere, one of which is Lucifer's clone.

Good Christian based fantasy from the beginnings of Man to the Final Battle in the near-future.

[ProfessorChaos]

11/22/63 was great, really enjoyed that. moved on to another recent king work, joyland, which is pretty damn good so far.

[LouCipherr]

Right now, reading Jeff Lindsay's "Dexter's Final Cut"

When I'm done, it's off to read Stephen King's "Doctor Sleep" :D

[Geordie9]

11/22/63 was great, really enjoyed that. moved on to another recent king work, joyland, which is pretty damn good so far.

11/22/63 is a brilliant book, i didnt really enjoy joyland much though

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im a massive Stephen King fan and ive read all his books and now im starting again from the beginning with Carrie

[ProfessorChaos]

yes, 11/22/63 was the best book i'd read in ages.....joyland started out promising, but really kinda petered out and left me feeling kinda let down.

edit: and i'm currently reading the big sleep by raymond chandler, with intentions of reading all the marlowe novels in succession.

[Cykotic]

Too many things at once lol

1984 by George Orwell
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

and about 6 other books that i can't remember the titles to right now.

[Tricky]

I'm about a third of the way through World War Z now, just after the battle of Yonkers part, really enjoying it so far, no idea why I haven't read it before now!

[Neil]

Rendezvous with Rama 2 & 3... And wishing I wasn't... Pretty poorly written affairs!

[Geordie9]

king & straubs the talisman

[Neil]

Rendezvous with Rama 2 & 3... And wishing I wasn't... Pretty poorly written affairs!

Just started no.4 now... Not expecting an improvement :(

[Geordie9]

salems lot

[Legion2213]

*Sigh*

So many new, unread books here, dozens of them...and I am just starting the "Heliconia" trilogy by Brian Aldiss again, I seem to be compelled to read the whole series every year or two. :(

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After posting the above last night, I decided to try something new and started listening to the audiobook "Wool" by Hugh Howey...I'm glad I did, I'm about a quarter of the way through it and enjoying it a lot, it's a nice dystopian novel, very much to my tastes, will have to get the other two books in the trilogy by the weekend I reckon...(third one is technically a pre-order, but I'll chuck it in my amazon basket anyway)

[krisvds]

'Er ist wieder da' by Timur Vermes.
It's a satire. It deals with Hitler walking around Berlin in 2013. Using Youtube and 'likes' he uses the media to get back in power.
From what I have read so far it's dark humour is hilarious.

[Legion2213]

Finished "Wool" by Hugh Howey last night...very, very good story, nothing majorly original, but very well executed. Will be ordering book 2 (which is a prequel) and pre-ordering book 3 which should carry on from book 1.

Really enjoyed the read, enjoyed the world/setting and thought the writer created characters worth caring about.

This gets a thumbs up/recommend from me.

Have the "Under the Dome" audiobook by SK on standby, will start tonight or tomorrow before dipping my toe into the TV series if I enjoy the book.

[wayzim]

The past few weeks I've reread Michner's Centennial, then a couple books by SF writer James Morrow - Her Only Begotten Daughter & This Is The Way The World Ends (Both Sci Fi/Fantasy Satire ) and now a big book of myths, legends, and folktales.
Currently I'm struggling in the writing of a sequel/prequel to a fantasy pirate novel I wrote last year (the former has yet to find an agent or publisher ) and also fighting to finish the third installment of an ongoing story I've been doing for a friend's blog site. Likewise, there's two horror stories I've been going on about forever. One would resurrect my stalled Deadfall series here at HPOTD, the other is just great fun.

Wayne Z

What had started as the Summer of Love, ended with a Fall which took an already torn national psyche and fed it; bit by bit, to a collective which honored no flag nor philosophy, save one.
As flowers faded before the shortening sun, trees bared themselves to an approaching autumn chill, something stirred on the air. In isolated hamlet, likewise within the narrow alleyways and broad avenues of larger metropolis, awakening to a time when all other things looked toward winter slumber, Dead things walked.
Deadfall:Fools On The Hill ( work in progress )

I was the only American among the twenty three member Aussie crew, a Jack of All Trades on loan from McMurdo to help get Nossal online and up to speed. Even so, Grace Beecham and I seemed to hit it off from the start, though we were polar opposites ( pun intended. ) in so many ways. This rather scrawny Yank with a grindingly linear thought process would hardly have dreamed of shacking up with the freethinking Amazonian prodigy, who dealt with a rather esoteric field of study …

“Necro-Thermic Deviations under Sub-Zero Conditions, including Somnolent/Near Comatose States. “

“Come again? “ I'd asked, while she took my incredulity with the driest wit.

“How extreme cold affects Dead Tissue. “ I could see those mixed color eyes, hazel with odd flecks of light-green, twinkling as my own pale expression grew even more so under the harsh post-summer sun. “This is really freakin you out, isn’t it? “
Frostbidden (work in progress )

[blind2d]

Well I just finished a recently released compendium of undead short stories (and one textless short comic) put together by James Roy Daley, which is 'Best New Zombie Tales' Volume 3. Very good stuff.
Currently though I'm reading Hitchens' book 'Arguably', which is a huge collection of essays he's done over the past 10+ years, ranging in subject from early figures of US History to where I am now, authors of the time around WWII. Fascinating stuff, and excellent writing, if a little dry and high-brow. (Not exactly my cup of tea, but I flow).

[Geordie9]

just finished Kings Night Shift, 500 pages through The Stand, still a long way to go!!

[Neil]

Just finished "Blaze" by Stephen King. He wrote this before Carry as Bachman. It ended up thrown away in a trunk and forgotten about for 30yrs.

If this is the sort of stuff he "throws away" OMG!

This is a fabulous read, very slightly let down by the ending IMHO, but boy what a great read!

ps: It's not horror or supernatural etc.


At 6’7” and built like a bear, Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers are strictly small-time until he meets George Rackley. George introduces him to a hundred cons and the one big score that every small timer dreams of: kidnap.

http://bks8.books.google.co.uk/books?id=8e18-Ne9M4AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE724qauTTXGt_AY_1Y-je3sWmZN_24wMIT6DyXo0jfFMmIjQkCl9jEtFEaoJGvBVcyX5J GrFaCHJwEbus3zHRj2B5VmnTyL1rny0gQt3E0fLkMnA-er3aOXfnqABW753rrhm2nB8

[wayzim]

Just finished "Blaze" by Stephen King. He wrote this before Carry as Bachman. It ended up thrown away in a trunk and forgotten about for 30yrs.

If this is the sort of stuff he "throws away" OMG!

This is a fabulous read, very slightly let down by the ending IMHO, but boy what a great read!

ps: It's not horror or supernatural etc.



http://bks8.books.google.co.uk/books?id=8e18-Ne9M4AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE724qauTTXGt_AY_1Y-je3sWmZN_24wMIT6DyXo0jfFMmIjQkCl9jEtFEaoJGvBVcyX5J GrFaCHJwEbus3zHRj2B5VmnTyL1rny0gQt3E0fLkMnA-er3aOXfnqABW753rrhm2nB8

Holy Christmas Crap! I just had a thought here.

What if some bright boy ( or girl ) could option King's short story: Home Delivery, from Skipp and Spector's 1989 anthology book homage to all things Romero? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Delivery_(short_story) Then they get George himself to direct it.

Update: Oops, actually decided to read the whole wiki article, and evidently it had been optioned. My Bad, Are Sorry. Still, the things that pop up in this tired old kids mind, huh? ;)

Wayne Z
[on screen] Sleigh is down. Reindeer... all dead. Both Santa's legs are broken. Santa's... very sad. Santa will have to... oh no. They're coming for me! [the other gnomes begin to stream into the control room] Stay back, you bastards! Stay back! [the communications link is lost]

From South Park's Red Sleigh Down episode. Season 6, Episode 17

[Neil]

Holy Christmas Crap! I just had a thought here.

What if some bright boy ( or girl ) could option King's short story: Home Delivery, from Skipp and Spector's 1989 anthology book homage to all things Romero? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Delivery_(short_story) Then they get George himself to direct it.
Interesting! - A 2005 animated short of the story was produced and was screened at RiverRun International Film Festival, produced by Guillermo del Toro

[Geordie9]

Just finished "Blaze" by Stephen King. He wrote this before Carry as Bachman. It ended up thrown away in a trunk and forgotten about for 30yrs.

If this is the sort of stuff he "throws away" OMG!

This is a fabulous read, very slightly let down by the ending IMHO, but boy what a great read!

ps: It's not horror or supernatural etc.



http://bks8.books.google.co.uk/books?id=8e18-Ne9M4AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE724qauTTXGt_AY_1Y-je3sWmZN_24wMIT6DyXo0jfFMmIjQkCl9jEtFEaoJGvBVcyX5J GrFaCHJwEbus3zHRj2B5VmnTyL1rny0gQt3E0fLkMnA-er3aOXfnqABW753rrhm2nB8

im onto this book soon as i reading all of kings books again, im up to the stand, i think blaze and thinner are the only books ive not read by king/bachman!

[Darkest Hour]

WARNING
Mah library card is expired,RENEW

BTW anyone else notice library checkout is all automated so why does the taxpayer have to pay for all these librarians?
Invest in the company who makes those things.Putting civil servants out of work since 2013 HARDLY,they still wobble around on our dime.
I did not notice a personnel decrease since this automation.

End of line
DH

[Neil]

im onto this book soon as i reading all of kings books again, im up to the stand, i think blaze and thinner are the only books ive not read by king/bachman!

Let me know what you think :)

[Tricky]

I got "Doctor Sleep" as a Christmas present (the sequel to The Shining) so going to make a start on that soon!

[Darkest Hour]

Read all the SK DarkTower books lounging about.
Even had 2 or 3 sitting next to the LOO.Hahahah
14 weeks I will not get back,I did get the complete series and finish collecting when I had found someone dropped
what they had and took them to a nearby used book store.
All my library had was Wastelands and when I first finished the series they refused me donating them (mostly hardcovers)
wtf up wit dat?

I read it 3 times over.
The Stand I have read no less than 15 times.

DH

[Neil]

The Stand I have read no less than 15 times.The original, or the (later released) extended unabridged version?


DHYou don't need to "sigh" all your posts... We can see who has written them :)

[Darkest Hour]

Old age has mellowed ye fine chap.In the past a poster may have gotten an excoriation or a public flogging.

You don't need to "sigh" all your posts... We can see who has written them :)

I cannot find normal text now so me quoting Neil makes everything italic.

I am speaking of 3 versions first one I got with my newsbboy paper delivery money when people paid me for my service
from that now missing small mom and pop drugstore (not walgreens lewis drugs or duane reed mega stores)
its said on the back cover SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE GAR producing.

Sort of excited when the bigger longer one came out in the 90's but only new commentary was about aids
and flu made who AC DC bollox THE KIDD and trashy.

When NYC was dying and MR. can you dig your man was getting ready to split the scene TRULY EPIC
Sort of empathy Stu Redman when he stopped letting them test him he grabbed BUB (tv series Howard Sherman)

WTF DID YOU PEOPLE DO!
pps,just for Neil

DH

[ProfessorChaos]

I got "Doctor Sleep" as a Christmas present (the sequel to The Shining) so going to make a start on that soon!

please let me know how that one is. i thought 11/22/63 was pretty damn good, seems king has gotten some of his groove back.

the gf's father has "doctor sleep" and offered to let me borrow it when he finishes it, so it's sorta on my radar.

as for myself, i'm currently reading (if you want to call it that, as they're comics) EC archives, tales from the crypt, vol 4, a christmas present from the gf.

[JohnoftheDead19]

Currently adapting RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD by john russo into a more modern script

[Darkest Hour]

I saw a video of SK from his winter home in FL some sort of town meeting on youtube GD gun grabber.
You want to be defenseless from murderous rampaging inner city mutants what for.
That is your right don't mess with mine.
FATHEAD

DH

[Geordie9]

is it just me or does DH posts make no sense??

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Ive just finished 2 Simon Clark books, The Fall & Hotel Midnight, good books, i recommend reading them. Ive just started Connie Willis - Blackout, not a horror as i usually read , its a time travel book. Oh and ive not long finished the full proper version of The Stand again, still one of my favourite books ever (if not the best).

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Let me know what you think :)

will do m8.

[Geordie9]

started reading Clive Barkers Book of Blood Vol1

[Geordie9]

finished books of blood, have started stephen kings rage.

[Geordie9]

ive started a zombie book called 21st century dead

[Geordie9]

started Richard Bachmans Long Walk

[Neil]

started Richard Bachmans Long WalkI quite enjoyed that book! Make sure you read "Blaze"!

[EvilNed]

Currently reading Accardo - The Genuine Godfather by William Roemer and Warfare in the Classical World by John Warry.

After that I'll probably read either Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army (the title says it all) or The Cold and the Dark: The World after a Nuclear War (so does this). I mostly read non-fiction stuff, and whenever I read fiction it's usually of the pulp kind (in it's derogatory sense). I've got a book called The Devils Plague about how Oliver Cromwell used a demon army to win him the English Civil War and having recently listened to Mike Duncan's podcast (http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/) on the subject matter I think I might want to give it a read.

[Mike70]

Currently reading Accardo - The Genuine Godfather by William Roemer and Warfare in the Classical World by John Warry.

After that I'll probably read either Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army (the title says it all) or The Cold and the Dark: The World after a Nuclear War (so does this). I mostly read non-fiction stuff, and whenever I read fiction it's usually of the pulp kind (in it's derogatory sense). I've got a book called The Devils Plague about how Oliver Cromwell used a demon army to win him the English Civil War and having recently listened to Mike Duncan's podcast (http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/) on the subject matter I think I might want to give it a read.


have you ever read "The Western Way of War" by Victor Hansen? great book about how greek and roman military thinking influence western culture.

[EvilNed]

have you ever read "The Western Way of War" by Victor Hansen? great book about how greek and roman military thinking influence western culture.

No, but right off the bat that sounds really interesting!

[Geordie9]

stephen kings roadwork

[Neil]

stephen kings roadwork
Ah, another Richard Bachman classic! I quite enjoyed it.

Make sure you do The Running Man, the Long Walk and Blaze!

[stray]

I am currently reading Great Dialogues of Plato (a Signet Classic).

:D

-stray-

[Neil]

Read Enders Game - Enjoyed the first 2/3rds but felt the last 1/3rd dropped off a bit.

Currently reading Starship Troopers...

[Mike70]

I've been revisiting some sci-fi classics. if you are a fan and have not read joe haldeman's "The Forever War" or james hogan's "Code of the Lifemaker", you probably should give them a look.

[Morto Vivente]

I am currently reading Great Dialogues of Plato (a Signet Classic).

:D

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Symposium or The Republic :thumbsup:

Currently, The Dresden Files - Death Masks

[Neil]

I've been revisiting some sci-fi classics. if you are a fan and have not read joe haldeman's "The Forever War" or james hogan's "Code of the Lifemaker", you probably should give them a look.
I've got "The Forever War," so I'll read that soon!

[EvilNed]

I got another book the other day. "Macedonian Armes after Alexander - 323 - 168 B.C.", which is actually quite thin at 100 pages at best. It covers the macedonian armies during the period mentioned in the title up the dissolution of the Macedonian kingdom by the Roman republic.

I don't know why I keep fetching these books, or why I find this interesting...

[AcesandEights]

I got another book the other day. "Macedonian Armes after Alexander - 323 - 168 B.C.", which is actually quite thin at 100 pages at best. It covers the macedonian armies during the period mentioned in the title up the dissolution of the Macedonian kingdom by the Roman republic.

I don't know why I keep fetching these books, or why I find this interesting...

Hey, I also have a thing for Osprey books and their ilk. In fact, I just ordered one the other day on post-Roman Briton/Anglo-Saxon warfare.

[Mike70]

I've got "The Forever War," so I'll read that soon!

that's been a fav of mine for eons. one of the few books that deals with time dilation/relativity and their effects on war and the people who fight it. and it is a great story to boot...

[Geordie9]

graham mastertons snowman & the teror, then doctor sleep

[AcesandEights]

I've got "The Forever War," so I'll read that soon!
that's been a fav of mine for eons. one of the few books that deals with time dilation/relativity and their effects on war and the people who fight it. and it is a great story to boot...

One of my all time favs!

[ProfessorChaos]

true detective has directed my literary attention to "the king in yellow" by robert chambers, on deck after that are "the call of cthulhu and other stories" by hp lovecraft, then "the conspiracy against the human race" by thomas ligotti. pretty heavy and dark stuff from what i hear.

[AcesandEights]

true detective has directed my literary attention to "the king in yellow" by robert chambers, on deck after that are "the call of cthulhu and other stories" by hp lovecraft, then "the conspiracy against the human race" by thomas ligotti. pretty heavy and dark stuff from what i hear.

Kind of heavy, but some of it kind of kooky and quaint by modern standards. Lots of purple prose in Lovecraft, but some of my favs...sort of an acquired taste. The Pulp greats from the early 20th (sounds like a term from a sci fi movie, eh) and their mid/late 19th century inspirations (Poe, Chambers, Bierce etc.) really captured a lot of what would later become great genre staples.

[Publius]

Kind of heavy, but some of it kind of kooky and quaint by modern standards. Lots of purple prose in Lovecraft, but some of my favs...sort of an acquired taste. The Pulp greats from the early 20th (sounds like a term from a sci fi movie, eh) and their mid/late 19th century inspirations (Poe, Chambers, Bierce etc.) really captured a lot of what would later become great genre staples.

I've been reading a lot of that lately: Lovecraft and the Victorian and Edwardian authors who inspired him. Best of all, much of it is in the public domain now, and so available for free online.

[Mike70]

I just re-read "The Turn of the Screw" again...for like the 20th time. anyway, have you read it and if so, what do you think? is the governess loco for choco puffs or are the ghosts "real"? are the children corrupted/evil or is that another projection of the governess?

I read it again after reading the introduction to "The Aspern Papers" (another of his stories that i highly recommend), in which the editor of the book ventured a few thoughts about "Turn" that i hadn't considered before.

[Publius]

I just re-read "The Turn of the Screw" again...for like the 20th time. anyway, have you read it and if so, what do you think? is the governess loco for choco puffs or are the ghosts "real"? are the children corrupted/evil or is that another projection of the governess?


Funny you should mention that one. I never have read it, and it never occurred to me as I've been reading spooky Victorian works over the last year plus, but just the day before yesterday it caught my eye on a list of all-time scary books. So now I do plan on reading it, so I can form an opinion on those questions for myself.

[Mike70]

Funny you should mention that one. I never have read it, and it never occurred to me as I've been reading spooky Victorian works over the last year plus, but just the day before yesterday it caught my eye on a list of all-time scary books. So now I do plan on reading it, so I can form an opinion on those questions for myself.

you would love it. not only is it an all time classic horror story and spooky as hell, it is also quite an intellectual puzzle. there are a multitude of interpretations to what occurs in the story. the unreliable narrator plays a major, major part in how you see the story.

[Geordie9]

ive just started Stephen Kings Doctor Sleep

[AcesandEights]

Can anyone here recommend any good books on the Royal Navy during World War II? I'm thinking generalist level, or some good info on OOB/organization and different naval operations.

Did a few searches, but didn't see anything on Amazon/B&N that seemed it fit the bill, which seems pretty odd. Also, I noticed some horribly overpriced ebooks for the subject matter. Who the hell pays $160 for an ebook?!

[Neil]

ive just started Stephen Kings Doctor SleepNot even heard of that one!


ps: Read Blaze!!!

[Mike70]

Not even heard of that one!


ps: Read Blaze!!!

it is a sequel to "The Shining." call it danny torrance at 40. it's full of the mystic nonsense that has plagued so much of king's later work. i haven't enjoyed anything by him in a long, long time.

[Neil]

it is a sequel to "The Shining." call it danny torrance at 40. it's full of the mystic nonsense that has plagued so much of king's later work. i haven't enjoyed anything by him in a long, long time.

Oh yeh!

ps: Read Blaze!

[stray]

it is a sequel to "The Shining." call it danny torrance at 40. it's full of the mystic nonsense that has plagued so much of king's later work. i haven't enjoyed anything by him in a long, long time.

Personally, Mike, I'd call it alien nonsense but, yeah, you're right. I haven't enjoyed a King novel since It.

As an interesting side note; although my wife grew up in Illinois she spent her summers in Kennebunkport, Maine. This would've been in the late 60s/early 70s. She remembers roller skating in the town square and occasionally running into a very nice man who frequented a local café called Alisson's who would buy her a hot chocolate. This man introduced himself as "Mr. Bachman". At the time, my wife's grandmother was known locally as the oldest resident of Kennebunkport. My wife's father--an acquaintance of some guy named "Bush"--was a Lt. Colonel in the Army at the time. Their family name is Flagg.

At any rate: I've just finished Meno; Symposium is up and coming.

:D

-stray-

[Geordie9]

I have got Blaze on my to read list, will defo be reading it.

[John Hutton]

I am currently reading Days Ago Diary http://www.daysagodiary.com. On a bit of a web zombie fiction run at the moment. But keen to get hold of a real book again soon.

[Geordie9]

Stephen Baxters Proxima, good so far

[Neil]

Stephen Baxters Proxima, good so far

That gets very mixed reviews!


And you're not ready "Blaze" because? :)

[Mike70]

Oh yeh!

ps: Read Blaze!

Ever get around to "The Forever War"? it is one that you won't put down.

on another note: I'm on a Frank Herbert kick now. I've read "Hellstrom's Hive", "The Eyes of Heisenberg", "Destination: Void", "Whipping Star" (AWESOME BOOK!), and "The Dosadi Experiment"
here in just the last 2 weeks (maybe less). and at present I'm reading "Dune" again for the umpteenth time. i'll probably notice something new though, like i do with every new reading. probably will keep going with "Dune" out to "Chapterhouse."

[Neil]

Ever get around to "The Forever War"? it is one that you won't put down.
Doing it now! Feels a little bit Starship Trooper'y...

[dracenstein]

Resurrectionist by James McGee, the second of his Matthew Hawkwood series. Hawkwood is a Bow Street Runner in 19th century London. Hawkwood is investigating a 'resurrection men' gang, bodysnatchers who sell dead bodies to medical schools, but his investigation is interrupted by an escape from Bedlam asylum in which a priest is killed. The cases converge...

Excellent read, tho the scene where a surgeon demonstrates how to remove a bladder stone is quite off-putting...

[Legion2213]

So. None of you folks picked up the "Wool trilogy" by Hugh Howey yet?

This is really fine PA fare folks...I highly recommend it!

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[Geordie9]

Im reading Graham Mastertons Ghost Music, decent read so far

[AcesandEights]

So. None of you folks picked up the "Wool trilogy" by Hugh Howey yet?

This is really fine PA fare folks...I highly recommend it!

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Will look into it today, though I have my hands full now.

[krisvds]

Ever get around to "The Forever War"? it is one that you won't put down.



Belgian comic book artist Marvano did a graphic novel of The Forever War. Haldeman collaborated and must have enjoyed the experience so much the two went on to create a folluw up and an entirely new series called Dallas Barr.
The Forever War comic is really good. A very strong anti-war theme without being anti-military is translated well into breathtaking drawings.

[AcesandEights]

Belgian comic book artist Marvano did a graphic novel of The Forever War. Haldeman collaborated and must have enjoyed the experience so much the two went on to create a folluw up and an entirely new series called Dallas Barr.
The Forever War comic is really good. A very strong anti-war theme without being anti-military is translated well into breathtaking drawings.

Yeah, I heard very good things about and was looking into getting a copy of volume 1 of amazon 5-6 months ago, but I wasn't sure about laying out $30 to $50 for a used copy.

[Geordie9]

im reading Bentley Little - The Return

[Neil]

im reading Bentley Little - The Return

*cough* Blaze *cough*

[shootemindehead]

Doing it now! Feels a little bit Starship Trooper'y...

Yeh. Just started on it myself and got the same vibe. Apparently, it was written as a response to 'Starship troopers'.

[Geordie9]

*cough* Blaze *cough*

haaha, i will get round to it, checked my library 2day and it wasnt in, youll be the 1st to know wen i do get it haha

[Legion2213]

Im reading Graham Mastertons Ghost Music, decent read so far

Only novel I've read by him was called "Mirror". It was okay.

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Will look into it today, though I have my hands full now.

Definitely worth your while IMO. I really enjoyed this series and the whole story/concept. And have shamelessly pimped his works around other forums and people I know who like a bit of SF/PA stuff.

I don't dip into too many new authors these days (last one was Charles Stross, who I also really enjoy), but I felt properly rewarded for taking a chance on this guy and his work.

As an aside, he really encourages not only fan fiction, but also self published Kindle novels based on his work/universe....he seems like a really top guy.

[Geordie9]

Wild Cards edited by George R Martin

[Neil]

Wild Cards edited by George R Martin

Not reading Blaze yet then? :)

[dracenstein]

Wild Cards edited by George R Martin

Read it, it's alright. He stole the invention of the jet engine from us to the US...

Re-reading The Wind up Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi, set in a distopian future in Thailand. An American corporate undercover agent looking for a lost seed bank (genetic re-engineered food plants have mutated beyond control and no natural food plants have escaped contamination) to 'harvest' is distracted by the title character, a Japanese genetically engineered New Person abandoned in Thailand and surviving as a sex toy, set against political upheaval in Thailand.

Excellent book, read!

[AcesandEights]

Read it, it's alright. He stole the invention of the jet engine from us to the US...

Re-reading The Wind up Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi, set in a distopian future in Thailand. An American corporate undercover agent looking for a lost seed bank (genetic re-engineered food plants have mutated beyond control and no natural food plants have escaped contamination) to 'harvest' is distracted by the title character, a Japanese genetically engineered New Person abandoned in Thailand and surviving as a sex toy, set against political upheaval in Thailand.

Excellent book, read!

Now THAT is a premise!

Will definitely look into it.

[krisvds]

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. In advance of the film version by P.T. Anderson.
Loving it so far.

[AcesandEights]

Re-reading The Wind up Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi

Okay, just added to my digital reader for download when I get home. Don't know when I'll get around to reading it, but it sounds intriguing.

[Day of the Dawn]

Book of the dead: A complete history of zombie cinema. It's sweet! Great read would recommend.

[Geordie9]

Book of the dead: A complete history of zombie cinema. It's sweet! Great read would recommend.

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[Geordie9]

wild cards busted flush

[Geordie9]

Chase Novak - Breed

[dracenstein]

Just finished the latest in the Honor Harrington military space opera series, Cauldron of Ghosts, the 19th in the series.

[Mike70]

The Decameron by Boccaccio. Amazing book and great window into life in the middle ages.

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Doing it now! Feels a little bit Starship Trooper'y...

It is sort of meant to. Haldeman wrote it as a way to help him make sense of his experiences in Vietnam.

[Geordie9]

Stephen King - Firestarter

[rightwing401]

Helan and Troy's Epic Road Quest by A Lee Martinez. I find his work to be interesting in that he manages to take mythical monsters and gods and put a mondern day world spin on them. Case in point, the main character Helan is a female minatore that deals with all the social and body issues that a young woman deals with, only she's constantly self conscious about her shedding issues. One recuring theme that I've seen in Martinez's work is that there are a set of ancient and cosmic rules that everything is bound to follow, be it human or monster or devil or god. When asked about the rules and who made them up, no one can answer, not even the gods. They usually just respond with, "Hell I don't know, those are just the rules". That and his wack and comical situations make for an entertaining read every time for me.

[Craig]

I recently read 'The Death of Grass' by John Christopher. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in post-apocalyptic fiction.

[Neil]

Neuromancer

Found it very hard going and tedious :(

[EvilNed]

I recently read 'The Death of Grass' by John Christopher. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in post-apocalyptic fiction.


I've seen the film. It's pretty grim.

[DeadManPosting]

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman: a pretty cool alternate history vampire tale that tells the story of a female vampire and male vampire hunters battle to bring down Jack the Ripper in Victorian era England. Good times!

[Geordie9]

Red Planet Blues by Robert J Sawyer

[Geordie9]

The Mammoth Book Of Zombies

[Neil]

^^ BLAZE?? :mad: :)

[Geordie9]

haha getting there

[Geordie9]

James Herbert - Fluke
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[AcesandEights]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/DougOBrien/51HAu87qxOL_SY344_BO1204203200__zpsd439caa0.jpg
^Cataloging doctrinal, training, logistics, weaponry and OOBs of the 7 major navies of World War 2.

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[Geordie9]

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[Neil]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/BraveNewWorld_FirstEdition.jpg/220px-BraveNewWorld_FirstEdition.jpg

This book was written over 80yrs ago, and surprisingly the scifi element of it does not feel out of date! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

[Geordie9]

Next up on the Stephen King library

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[Neil]

Next up on the Stephen King library

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You've got your work cut out for you there!

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982) – 224 pages
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987) – 400 pages
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991) – 512 pages
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) – 787 pages
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003) – 714 pages
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004) – 432 pages
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004) – 845 pages
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012) – 336 pages

I've gone thru all 1-7. Some are fabulous, where others are a little mundane.

Maybe you should read Blaze before undertaking these? :)

[Geordie9]

I know, ive read them before , last time i read them all one after the other and loved them all. This time ive been starting from Kings first works and working my way through them. I'm sure Blaze can't be too far away!!

[Tricky]

The Forever War by James Haldeman, really good read so far! Looking forward to the film coming out.

[Neil]

The Forever War by James Haldeman, really good read so far! Looking forward to the film coming out.

I read this a few months ago! I enjoyed it too! Felt very Starship Troopers at times!

THERE'S A FILM COMING OUT!??!!?!?!?

[Tricky]

I read this a few months ago! I enjoyed it too! Felt very Starship Troopers at times!

THERE'S A FILM COMING OUT!??!!?!?!?

Yeah really enjoying it so far! Fair enough the timeline seems very misplaced now seen as we aren't fighting space wars even now 17 years after the book is set, but other than that it's brilliant! It was reading news that there was a film coming out that prompted me to read the book as the plotline sounded interesting.

[Neil]

http://bookpeopleblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/stranger-in-a-strange-land.jpg

50+ years old, but very readable and interesting!

[Geordie9]

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[Neil]

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Never read this one - Let me know if I should!

[Geordie9]

Yes you should definitely read it, its brilliant. Its got Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil & Stand By Me in it!

[Geordie9]

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[Geordie9]

Next up, a horror classic http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a501/geordie93/index_zps0faf386e.jpg (http://s1281.photobucket.com/user/geordie93/media/index_zps0faf386e.jpg.html)

[Geordie9]

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[MinionZombie]

Currently reading "Scene By Scene" by Mark Cousins - a film book based on a BBC series from the late 90s/early 00s in which the author (who recently made the astonishing 15 part documentary series The Story of Film, based on his book of the same name) interviews actors and directors about some of their most famous scenes in their most famous films. It's a nicely put together book and there's some interesting little tidbits throughout.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Scene-Scene-Mark-Cousins-Paperback-2002/11/!!d8!FcQB2M~$%28KGrHqF,!i0Ew5WCg,OFBMR+S,vHFg~~_35 .JPG

...

Before that I read James Ellroy's "Silent Terror" (aka Killer on the Road), which is his third book. It wasn't until his seventh book that he began his most famous achievement ("The L.A. Quartet" - The Black Dahlia/The Big Nowhere/L.A. Confidential/White Jazz - all of which I've read and thoroughly enjoyed), so his style is in its earlier stages here, but you can see the seeds nonetheless. It's a first-person account of a serial killer, going from B&E's to full-scale mass murder, across America and throughout the 60s/70s/80s.

http://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/is-bin/intershop.static/WFS/TWL-B2C-Site/TWL-B2C/en_NZ/product/large/28/bb/9780099539704_l.jpg

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And before that I read "The Walking Dead: The Fall of The Governor Part One".

http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/cover1/9780330541381.jpg

[Neil]

http://bookpeopleblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/stranger-in-a-strange-land.jpg

50+ years old, but very readable and interesting!

Brilliant book, but the last few chapters weren't as strong IMHO!

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Comes across a little childish in writing style, but that may be due to it being translated.

[Neil]

http://www.50ayear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/201007-omag-book-asimov-284x426-200x300.jpg

^^ Hey look at the amount of books I'm getting through! I'm like a bookworm!

[Mike70]

Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Malinowski. An anthropological must!