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Post by maryelizabeth on Oct 22, 2012 20:58:35 GMT -5
I need to pick up "The Tomb." I really enjoyed the film version of Wilson's "The Keep" which if I'm not mistaken, Sir Ian Mckellan's character actually had a copy of the Necronomicon?
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Post by micah on Oct 23, 2012 14:19:58 GMT -5
I need to pick up "The Tomb." I really enjoyed the film version of Wilson's "The Keep" which if I'm not mistaken, Sir Ian Mckellan's character actually had a copy of the Necronomicon? The Necronomicon shows up in so many places! If you have not read The Keep I encourage you to do so before delving into Wilson's world. The book is quite different (and much better in my opinion) than the movie. Then, depending upon your level of OCD, you have to decide how you will read the books. The bulk of Wilson's work is tied together in one way or another. Do you want to move straight through the Repiarman Jack novels (one of my favorite series), read just the books in the Adversary Cycle (see www.repairmanjack.com/forum/content.php?s=18e1a911ad0a82f57e76dd022de1b64e&4-published-fiction for the breakdown) or read include everything in the Secret History of the World ( www.repairmanjack.com/forum/content.php?157)
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Post by MontiLee on Oct 25, 2012 19:39:22 GMT -5
I am half-way through Jim Butcher's Side Jobs while I wait for Cold Days to be released, and on audio I'm close to starting Susan Hill's The Woman In Black.
Also, I hear there's a new Agent Pendergast novel from Preston/Child on the horizon and I saw from an email from Simon and Schuster that King and Hill collaborated on a novella (I think).
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tracy924
Spree Killer
It's TRACY, not STACY.
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Post by tracy924 on Mar 12, 2013 20:26:59 GMT -5
What's everyone reading now?
I'm reading "The Dirt" (a biography on Motley Crue). I read it on my lunch break at work. It's sort of like a date with the band without having to worry about going home with a social disease.
I'm in a funk with fiction. I've abandoned a few lately before I finished them and that always makes me feel uncomfortable. Life is too short to keep reading something that's not working for you though; especially since there are tons more in your bookshelf that will.
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Post by maryelizabeth on Apr 18, 2013 10:48:35 GMT -5
I just finished the 2nd book in the "Cirque du Freak" series by Darren Shan. I had seen the movie and was curious about the books. Even though they are YA, they are very gruesome which I didn't expect since the movie was more a comedy. I do plan on reading the rest in the series but I'm going to take a break and read "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson.
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Post by Jim Leach on May 27, 2013 16:27:15 GMT -5
Last book I finished was "Ready, Player One" by Ernest Cline, an amusing nostalgia-drenched romp through the '80's. Quite cracking good fun.
Last thing I completed and LOVED on all levels was "Something Red" by Douglas Nicholas. The grueling drudgery of medieval life, painfully realistic, is broken up by, egad, werewolves.
Most recently abandonned was Jonathan Maberry's Patient Zero -- I really can't get excited by zombies though I picked it up because he'll be at World Horror Con. Well paced and it felt like actual writing though I kept getting a weird macho after taste.
Currently reading too damned many books: Lies of Locke Lamorra by Scott Lynch which is amusing, comic mode fantasy -- I'm sort of enjoying despite myself;
Booklife by Jeff Vandermeer, non-fiction about the contemporary business of writing.
Homeland by Cory Doctorow which I bought at Literati, the new bricks and mortar bookstore in Ann Arbor. It's present day science fiction but since I do computer support as the day job, it's producing a fair amount of anxiety -- Can't that count as horror?
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Post by Jim Leach on Aug 1, 2013 15:01:20 GMT -5
I've been putting those dollar store reading glasses to good use this summer:
"The 'Geisters" by David Nickle -- quickly paced, creepy tale of woman with poltergeists... and the men who, like, REALLY dig that. A bit breezy, a touch on the side of exploitation but, heck, gotta love it for the D&D references alone! The only bit that was unbelievable was that the major character, a Canadian, mind you, doesn't like Tim Horton's coffee and I believe that's a hanging offense in the Great White North. Reccommended.
"The Summer is Ended and We are Not Yet Saved" -- bought it for the title, kept reading for the delightful letters that the mother character sends to the poor child trapped at a bible camp with a homocidal counselor. Amusing but it felt a bit padded, which fits since it developed from a short story, I gather.
"Summer's End" by Lisa Morton -- a novella with an egghead viewpoint character, a specialist in Hallowe'en, who finds out some of the legends are dangerously true when an archeological dig uncovers an ancient druid manuscript... and a corpse. I should have read it in one sitting but I find myself leisurely doling out sections... due partly to the pure nerdish delight of reading a story that has footnotes!
"Rotters" by Daniel Kraus -- a nicely disgusting YA title about a boy whose father is a grave robber and the travails of looting the recently deceased. Great fun overall but it wandered a bit narratively.
I'm sure I read a couple other titles, a couple of which are definitely not worth mentioning.
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Post by Jim Leach on Aug 1, 2013 15:06:18 GMT -5
@ Stacy, er, I mean Tracy
On abandoning books unfinished, a friend shared with me what she considered a perk of turning 50, which is a rule of thumb about when it's OK to stop reading a book that isn't working for you. At age 50, read just 50 pages. At 51, decide after 49; at age 52, 48 pages, etc.
Since I plan to live until 120, I figure I'll be able to stop reading a book before I've even heard its title!
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Post by maryelizabeth on Aug 4, 2013 17:23:16 GMT -5
Sometime reading YA fiction is so refreshing. I remember being annoyed when there were suddenly millions of zombie books pretty much touting the same thing and then I found Kerri Ryan's "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" and read it one weekend!
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Post by micah on Aug 8, 2013 10:58:36 GMT -5
I just finished the 2nd book in the "Cirque du Freak" series by Darren Shan. I had seen the movie and was curious about the books. Even though they are YA, they are very gruesome which I didn't expect since the movie was more a comedy. I do plan on reading the rest in the series but I'm going to take a break and read "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson. I stumbled upon that movie on afternoon TV a few weeks ago. I had not heard anything about the series or the movie (which is crazy considering all of the recognizable actors in it). You are enjoying the books? I've added them to my list once I whittle down the To Read stack a little. William Gibson is always fun.
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Post by micah on Aug 8, 2013 11:07:16 GMT -5
Jim, where is the new bookstore located? Did you enjoy Cory's book? I still have to read Ready Player One (especially since the author will be GOH at next year's Penguicon -- shameless plug).
The last true horror book I read was Cannibal Fat Camp by our very own David Hayes. Loved it.
I'm currently reading a slew of books (I just can't read one at a time):
Cabal by Clive Barker, re-reading as research
Rule 34 by Charles Stross, a mystery set in the not so distant, extremely plugged in future.
Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas, an autobiography of someone coming to terms with their sociopathy.
Asylum by Johan Theorin, a really creepy tale of someone who goes to work in a day care center connected by a tunnel to a mental hospital for the criminally insane. I have to read this one in small doses because I'm afraid of what we will find out about the main character.
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Post by Jim Leach on Sept 2, 2013 7:22:33 GMT -5
The new bookstore is called "Literati" and it right on the corner of 4th Avenue and Washington, conveniently located across from a parking structure and next door to Arbor Brewing. It's...small to be brutally honest
I had to put down "Homeland" because it was giving me too much work-related stress. I wil definitely return to it.
I also tried to read Rule 34 but had to put it down because it felt like I was just reading Reddit.
I just finished "The Lake Monsters of North America" stories by Nathan Ballingrud. (The first and last stories were particularly effective, I found.)
Though I despise zombies, I'm reading the Centipede Press book about Night of the Living Dead. What lovely editions they print. It really distracts me from the fact that I'm reading about zombies.
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Post by maryelizabeth on May 7, 2014 20:35:39 GMT -5
For my upcoming June trip I'll be making a stop in Fouke, AR on the way to Texas. In preparation, I have just finished Lyle Blackburn's The Beast of Boggy Creek and am in the middle of Bigfoot Wars by Eric S. Brown. There is supposed to be a movie version of the novel coming out towards the end of May. Judd Nelson and C. Thomas Howell star in it!
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Post by alafrance on May 16, 2014 11:09:41 GMT -5
I just finished Dr. Sleep from Stephen King. It's about Danny Torrence from The Shining, but he's all grown up. I dug it quite a bit!
Next, I'm going old school. I'm re-reading my leather bound copy of HP Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction.
Makes me want to to watch the Southpark Trilogy with Cthulu in it again!
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