Never even heard of that Himes novel, Troy. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
*New* What book are you reading?
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Posts: 55 (06/29/09 19:09:48) Apprentice Shockliner |
THE LAST DICKENS by Matthew Pearl.
Interesting contrast to Simmons' DROOD. Mike |
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Posts: 4698 (06/29/09 19:14:38) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Tom!
Yesterday Will Make You Cry is the first novel by Chester Himes. This is the complete, unabridged version of Cast The First Stone. Our local library had a copy of it and after hearing about it in an article on black crime fiction over at BSC: Black Crime Fiction AAAHHHH, I can't fix this link: http://www.bscreview.com/...fiction-an-introduction/
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Posts: 4424 (06/29/09 19:42:56) Shocklineraholic |
Thanks for the info, man.
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Posts: 8209 (06/29/09 21:23:01) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Confessions of St. Augustine by...well...you know who, and a strange little chap book by John Urbancik called
Necropolis.
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Posts: 3029 (06/30/09 06:19:57) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Finished Michael Moorcock's The Warlord of the Air, which is a neat alt. history/proto-steampunk novel; maybe alt.
history isn't quite right, since it plays with Moorcock's recurring interest in multiple universes. The Vandermeers include a section of this novel in
their anthology Steampunk, which intrigued me enough that when a friend mentioned having it, I borrowed it immediately.
The novel reads very much as though Moorcock had digested a significant number of H. G. Wells' novels and used them as a model for his own purposes; it has
a similar narrative movement and tone, and is really quite well done.
Right now I'm a few stories into Graham Joyce's collection, Partial Eclipse, and I think I'll stick with it. Not sure what novel I'll dive into next, though. Randy M. |
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Posts: 454 (06/30/09 17:12:39) Veteran Shockliner |
I'm on the last 50p of GEEK LOVE, by K.Dunn. I started this novel whren it came out and all my friends were reading it.That was over some 25 yrs ago now!
But I only made it to about 100p in before it got me stalled-don't exactly know why...But I kept it on the shelf ,knowing I'd return to it one day. And
I'm glad I did! AMAZING ,heartfelt stuff! Great detail,with almost unbearable pathos.Not to mention gross-out vibe!
It's something of a regular cult classic/rite of passage novel now- I believe.I've never seen it go out of print in all those years! That's gotta say something about it's impact and legendary status. |
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Posts: 444 (06/30/09 17:45:56) |
Just finished John Irving's "Son of the Circus." Starting on Palahniuk's newest, "Pygmy," tonight.
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Posts: 4699 (06/30/09 17:54:51) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Just got this from our local library:
Whoops....wrong picture.... 
80 pages in and it is good so far.... Troy
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Posts: 1803 (07/01/09 17:15:37) Master Shockliner |
OLIVER TWIST--Charles Dickens.
It's research for my current novel.
In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion.One of the shadiest of these is
the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them
personally.--Phil Ochs
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Posts: 1354 (07/01/09 17:27:41) Shocklineraholic |
monkeycat wrote: There's some really good stuff in Relentless... Can't say I was all that crazy about the end tho. |
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Posts: 8212 (07/01/09 17:51:48) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Just finished Richard Stark's (aka Donald E. Westlake) The Hunter, the basis for Point Blank and the remake Payback, and now reading The Sound and The Fury
by Faulkner.
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Posts: 226 (07/02/09 05:20:04) Veteran Shockliner |
SACRIFICE by John Everson. Good, gory, fun stuff.
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Posts: 817 (07/02/09 05:25:39) |
Currently reading Triquorum One featuring john Grant, Allen Ashley and Lavie Tidhar - Intro by Paul di Filippo
BRILLIANT..!!!!!!!!!!!!! Next is The Nature of Balance by that Lebbon fella.. YAY..!!!!!!! |
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Posts: 2696 (07/02/09 05:55:53) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
The Book of Ian Watson
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Smoke is freedom Flame is mercy I am free tonight |
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Posts: 874 (07/02/09 06:00:09) Veteran Shockliner |
I'm off for summer vacation (the main benefit to teaching), so I've been getting a lot of reading done.
In the past 2 weeks, I've read WHISKEY SOUR, BLOODY MARY, RUSTY NAIL, DIRTY MARTINI and FUZZY NAVEL by J.A. Konrath. Phenomenal series that immediately earned a spot on my must-read list. I then jumped into the Evan Delaney series by Meg Gardiner: CHINA LAKE, MISSION CANYON and now JERICHO POINT. Another awesome set of thrillers. Highly recommended. Two more books in the series after that, then I may jump back into the horror genre for a while. |
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Posts: 1022 (07/02/09 06:12:31) Master Shockliner |
Finished: THE STRAIN by Guillermo & Chuck Hogan, FRAGMENT by Warren Fahy. THE STRAIN I give a B -. Not bad and I will read the next two in the series.
FRAGMENT, I enjoyed until the final 100 pages. Fahy did something I loathed. The more I think about it, the more I did not like it. Some of the description
of the biology seem to go on too long. But those last 100 pages...groan.
Currently reading THE UNSEEN by Alexandra Sokoloff. Liked her first two novels, though I thought the first one read too much like a novelization of an unproduced screenplay. |
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Posts: 5168 (07/02/09 10:16:18) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Vanilla Ride, the new Hap and Leonard story. Lansdale does great dialogue, doesn't he? Why haven't these books been filmed? They'd make an
excellent TV series too, on HBO or Showtime, so as not to have to make it G-rated.
Next up will be The Questing of Kedrigern by John Morressy, published in 1987. I just discovered this author, and after reading the first book I headed to Amazon for more. Morressy is original and funny and it's a shame he's out of print. |
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Posts: 247 (07/02/09 11:04:20) Veteran Shockliner |
YOU COME WHEN I CALL YOU by Douglas Clegg. Some boys are about to do something really nasty in Palmetto...
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