I’m juggling stuff right now. I’ve yet to finish Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, although I will now that school is over with (forever!). I’m also in the midst of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Palahniuk’s Rant (and Snuff, as soon as I pick it up), the new issue of McSweeney’s, House of Leaves, English As She Is Spoke and Jose Saramago’s Blindness. I read more when school is out of session than I do when it’s in.
Holy s**t.
I’m not so good at juggling…
Naked Eskimo - 04 June 2008 09:42 PM
Just finished Dark Hollow. bleh. My ferver for Brian Keene is waining. About to start an old Shadowrun novel called Never Deal With A Dragon, because supposedly, the Super NES Shadowrun game was based heavily on that and the SNES game was awesome. Should be a quick, fun read, which will be a nice pallet cleanser after Dark Hollow. So disappointing.
I got tired of Keene after The Conqueror Worms.
Also, Ender’s Game has gotten much better. I should finish it either tonight or tomorrow.
I’m juggling stuff right now. I’ve yet to finish Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, although I will now that school is over with (forever!). I’m also in the midst of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Palahniuk’s Rant (and Snuff, as soon as I pick it up), the new issue of McSweeney’s, House of Leaves, English As She Is Spoke and Jose Saramago’s Blindness. I read more when school is out of session than I do when it’s in.
Holy s**t.
I’m not so good at juggling…
Naked Eskimo - 04 June 2008 09:42 PM
Just finished Dark Hollow. bleh. My ferver for Brian Keene is waining. About to start an old Shadowrun novel called Never Deal With A Dragon, because supposedly, the Super NES Shadowrun game was based heavily on that and the SNES game was awesome. Should be a quick, fun read, which will be a nice pallet cleanser after Dark Hollow. So disappointing.
I got tired of Keene after The Conqueror Worms.
Also, Ender’s Game has gotten much better. I should finish it either tonight or tomorrow.
I really liked The Road but I find Palahniuk to be very overrated. I’ve read three of his books and didn’t really like any of them. Lullaby was probably the best.
Right now I’m halfway through I Kill…, it’s an Italian murder mystery.
Then it’s on to Up in Honey’s Room by Elmore Leonard and A Futile and Stupid Gesture about the National Lampoon founder that killed himself.
I’ve just started the latest Peter Hamilton. Yay for 900 page space opera!
I also just finished Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis which I can highly recommend, it’s a lot of fun. You have to love a book that features a secret constitution of the US that is bound in alien skin. And Godzilla bukakke.
I really liked The Road but I find Palahniuk to be very overrated. I’ve read three of his books and didn’t really like any of them. Lullaby was probably the best.
Right now I’m halfway through I Kill…, it’s an Italian murder mystery.
Then it’s on to Up in Honey’s Room by Elmore Leonard and A Futile and Stupid Gesture about the National Lampoon founder that killed himself.
Sadly, I agree with you on Palahniuk, but I end up reading his stuff anyway because I enjoyed the first few novels he wrote (from Fight Club to Choke). I’m not much for his supernatural side, which is why I’m happy that he’s back to sleazier territories with his last two books, particularly Snuff, which has, to me, a really intriguing premise. And all of his stuff makes for pretty breezy reading anyway, so if I’m not crazy about one of his books, I don’t have to spend an unreasonable amount of time with it.
Yes, Yes, a thousand times yes! Even if my taste is suspect b/c I read nerdy fantasy crap in my teens, even if my favorite action movie is Charlie’s Angels 2, and even if I enjoyed Sex and the City a little too much…trust me this one time. Buy it.
Yes, Yes, a thousand times yes! Even if my taste is suspect b/c I read nerdy fantasy crap in my teens, even if my favorite action movie is Charlie’s Angels 2, and even if I enjoyed Sex and the City a little too much…trust me this one time. Buy it.
I don’t know if I should mention this, but I was a huge fan of Dragonlance too. I still have a few of the books. They were good books!!!
Yes, Yes, a thousand times yes! Even if my taste is suspect b/c I read nerdy fantasy crap in my teens, even if my favorite action movie is Charlie’s Angels 2, and even if I enjoyed Sex and the City a little too much…trust me this one time. Buy it.
It’s on the way! But if it contains either horsefaced hags in Jimmy Choos, or Bernie Mac, I’m holding you personally responsible, Amy! :0)
Right now I’m about halfway through the last in the His Dark Materials trilogy. I’m finding absorbing stuff, but I plan to read something horror related after that. I can’t decide between World War Z or HP Lovecraft Omnibus 1. Can anyone guide me in the right direction? It’s those or one of the five Stephen King books I haven’t read that is sitting on my shelf gathering dust!
Right now I’m about halfway through the last in the His Dark Materials trilogy. I’m finding absorbing stuff, but I plan to read something horror related after that. I can’t decide between World War Z or HP Lovecraft Omnibus 1. Can anyone guide me in the right direction? It’s those or one of the five Stephen King books I haven’t read that is sitting on my shelf gathering dust!
If you haven’t read any Lovecraft before then I’d go with that. You’ll see how many film and books took inspiration from his world. Plus he’s ace. I think the first omnibus contains At The Mountains Of Madness which is probably my favourite of his stories. Read that and then imagine what the Del Toro film version would be like if he ever gets round to making it.
World War Z is very good though. And of course it has the bonus of containing zombies.
In other news, i just read the graphic novel Black Hole by Charles Burns. Holy crap, it’s a bit good. And deeply odd.
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman? I’m a big fan of his - I’ve read Stardust and Neverwhere. He’s a brilliant author. I have that book on my self too. If I’m honest I own more books that I haven’t read than ones I have. I think I might be adiccted to buying books, but not be as fast at reading as I would like!
I’m trying to read some classic books, but Jane Austen feels way too much like hard work right now, so I think I will go with Lovecraft. I hear him mentioned so often that I think it would be rude to put it off any longer! Thanks Brian E
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman? I’m a big fan of his - I’ve read Stardust and Neverwhere. He’s a brilliant author. I have that book on my self too. If I’m honest I own more books that I haven’t read than ones I have. I think I might be adiccted to buying books, but not be as fast at reading as I would like!
I’m trying to read some classic books, but Jane Austen feels way too much like hard work right now, so I think I will go with Lovecraft. I hear him mentioned so often that I think it would be rude to put it off any longer! Thanks Brian E
I’m back from Barnes and Noble again! I bought Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Hush, Old Flames, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Snuff, a couple of horror magazines, and the first two seasons of Justice League. I’m one happy camper.
For those of you who are tires of Brian Keene, I offer you Dead City by Joe McKinney. It’s similar to The Rising, but I found it a little more to my liking in that it didn’t read like a B-Movie script. The author is a former cop and he knows his shite about violence and suffering.
Also, I just finished my annual end-of-the world novel, Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven, and I’m going to go ahead and give it a cautious recommend to disaster junkies… it’s slow going for the first half of the book, but when the comet hits the Earth things roll along nicely. I’d love to see NOTLP do an Apocalyptic-Armageddon-Fall-of-Civilization-Dogs-and-Cats-Living-Together show.
I’m just starting 1945 by Robert Conroy… an alternate history novel where Japan doesn’t surrender after the A-Bombs are dropped.
