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I’m currently reading ‘Salem’s Lot, by, of course, Stephen King. King has a tendency to drag on with description, but otherwise it’s really good. What are you reading?

I haven’t read the novel, but I own the movie. A friend of mine read the novel and said it was nothing like Tobe Hooper’s made for TV ‘Salem’s Lot’. I love the original Salem’s Lot movie though all the same.

I liked early King, although horror starts to run together for me, especially King.  But, hey, after 70 some odd books, how can you not repeat yourself?

I still can’t forgive him for the ending of the Dark Tower series.  That’s King’s biggest failing to me:  can’t write a decent ending.  Often great build-up, though.

I’m reading River of Darkness, about Theodore Roosevelt’s nearly fatal trip up the Amazon.  I’m also reading Lightly on the Land, a trail-building book for work.

I have just started a second read of the Exorcist.

Just finished the second book of the ‘Maximum Ride’ series by James Patterson
Kind of a fun book.

I just started Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag.  This going to be a rough read.  It’s based on a true event.

I’m just now getting wround to reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s just the thing to brighten a bad mood.

Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore.  The first chapter is pretty rough reading; retarded child from 5000 BC who can only speak in the present tense.  It’s taken me a few times to get through some paragraphs.

I just finished The Color of Blood by Declan Hughes and now I’m starting Salty by Mark Haskell Smith.

I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Stefan reviewed it a while ago. Even if it’s now an Oprah book
it’s still on my top ten list. Works on every level.

John J. Geysen - 01 June 2007 02:14 PM

I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Stefan reviewed it a while ago. Even if it’s now an Oprah book
it’s still on my top ten list. Works on every level.

I just finished this one, too, and thought it was outstanding.

I’m rereading Shelby Foote’s “The Civil War:  A Narrative,” the only history book I ever considered literature.

Hey Bonds,

You should be reading other books.  Like the ones that traveled from Dallas.

Just started On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony, found it for a buck at a used book store. So far so good.

Stefan - 01 June 2007 03:42 PM

Hey Bonds,

You should be reading other books.  Like the ones that traveled from Dallas.

Actually, I’ve read the other books.  Just need to type up the reviews...lol

Rae_rae - 04 June 2007 11:02 AM

Just started On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony, found it for a buck at a used book store. So far so good.

Isn’t that part of a longer series?

Mike Bonds - 04 June 2007 02:08 PM

Rae_rae - 04 June 2007 11:02 AM

Just started On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony, found it for a buck at a used book store. So far so good.

Isn’t that part of a longer series?

Yes, I believe there are 7 or 8? It’s a strange world where magic and science coexist, and ideas have personas (ie: Death, Fate) and each book is when a new person takes over for said persona. I heard the last 2 books are the Devil and God. This one is Death and it has exceeded my expectations so far. I’m gushing aren’t I?