I just finished Closing Time and Other Stories by Jack Ketchum.
Now, I'm starting Mama's Boy by Fran Friel (The Insidious Publications version).
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Now, I'm starting Mama's Boy by Fran Friel (The Insidious Publications version).
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*New* What book are you reading?
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Posts: 1607 (06/16/09 17:54:00) Shocklineraholic |
Books are weapons in the war of ideas.
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Posts: 4686 (06/16/09 17:58:24) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
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Posts: 9446 (06/16/09 17:58:49) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
One more issue to go in the SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN archives Volume 2
Next: SHADOW SEASON by Tom Piccirlli (AND starting Savage Sword Volume 3!) |
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Posts: 8358 (06/16/09 18:09:38) |
Michael Connelly's new one, "The Scarecrow"
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Posts: 553 (06/16/09 18:29:53) Veteran Shockliner |
Just finished STARKWEATHER DREAMS by Christopher Conlon. It's a poetry collection about Charles Starkweather, the notorious spree killer. Not for the faint
of heart, but highly recommended.
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Posts: 44 (06/16/09 19:46:01) Apprentice Shockliner |
LOST TRIBE by Gene O'Neill. Picked it up at the Stokers and dug right in....
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Posts: 2815 (06/16/09 20:10:52) Veteran Shockliner |
Just started ELIOT'S BANANA by Heather Swain. Sounds like a porn book, but it isn't. Paid a buck at STRAND.
Synopsis: Things should be peachy. Junie isn't entirely sure what her problem is. She's just moved into a Brooklyn apartment with her cool longtime boyfriend Leon, a drummer who adores her. She flits through a string of temp jobs in funky thrift store clothes. But beneath her veneer of quirky humor there's a nagging feeling of dissatisfaction about her life. She's about to go bananas. When Junie meets Eliot, who is twice her age, and his cat, Alfie, at the vet's office, she's convinced she's found the zest missing in her life. A burnt-out sci-fi writer in search of a muse, Eliot is apples to Leon's oranges. It's not long before Junie's standing in his kitchen being offered a banana...and then some. Losing herself in the mayhem of a fling, Junie slowly realizes that kinky diversions are a poor distraction from what's really eating her. Only when she stops obsessing about Eliot and starts peeling away the layers of her family's past will she see that what she really wants has been waiting for her all along...and that her future's ripe with possibilities.
Lawrence Dagstine Homepage: www.lawrencedagstine.com
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Posts: 336 (06/16/09 21:31:28) Shockliner |
Just finished an oldie, Lovecraft's Book by Richard A Lupoff. Now reading Elizabeth Hand's Generation Loss.
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Posts: 2614 (06/16/09 23:27:27) Shocklineraholic |
BAD THINGS by Michael Marshall (minus the Smith). Excellent so far - the word "unputdownable" could have been invented for it.
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Posts: 2145 (06/16/09 23:39:09) Shocklineraholic |
Fritz Leiber - Night Monsters.
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Posts: 748 (06/16/09 23:40:38) Shockliner |
David Copperfield - by Charles Dickens
Silly Idea - The Baser Pulps - Nemonymous - The Weirdmonger
Wheel - Themed Quotations from DFL - Weirdmonger (Prime Book 2003)
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Posts: 384 (06/16/09 23:57:13) Veteran Shockliner |
Toybox by Al Sarrantonio. I love these short stories!
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Posts: 38 (06/17/09 00:47:18) |
"Al Sarrantonio" - he's good. I read "Horrorween" and really liked it, despite the poor reviews. I have "Hallow's Eve" on
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Posts: 3108 (06/17/09 00:49:29) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
BAD MEN by John Connolly. Interestingly, the copy I have is signed by Connolly, and dated June 19th 2003. So I'm only six years behind in my Connolly
reading. Off to see him and new Irish writer Stuart Neville (honestly, look out for his book) next Friday.
Matt
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Posts: 595 (06/17/09 00:50:11) Veteran Shockliner |
"Shrink Rap" by Robert B Parker at the moment and either "Johnny Gruesome" or "Pressure" next, can't decide which.
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Posts: 1762 (06/17/09 00:53:51) Shocklineraholic |
This thread.
Gary Fry
Author of SANITY AND OTHER DELUSIONS  Order my latest collection from PS Publishing "Gary Fry is a master." Ramsey Campbell |
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Posts: 1018 (06/17/09 01:41:40) Master Shockliner |
Just finished: RELENTLESS by Dean Koontz
Reading: THE STRAIN by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan |
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Posts: 2688 (06/17/09 03:11:32) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
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Posts: 5501 (06/17/09 04:05:10) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear.
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Posts: 3022 (06/17/09 04:13:12) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Not reading much in the way of horror right now. Recently finished Fritz Leiber's Swords and Deviltry, my first foray into Fahfred and Gray Mouser territory. Good fun and, I think, maybe the best use of Leiber's theatrical background and instincts I've seen in his writing. There were stretches of dialog where I thought he might be using Shakespeare's comedies as a template for his writing. Possibly even better was Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn. I wish I'd read this years ago, as well, if only because Beagle's writing is so smooth and savory. For instance, speaking of the inept magician, Schmendrick: The unicorn watched him with great interest and a growing uncertainty, not of his heart, but of his craft. … Once he changed a dead rose into a seed. The unicorn liked that, even though it did turn out to be a radish seed.
One night they stopped in a plump, comfortable town where even the beggars had double-chins and the mice
waddled.
Toads would have been more hospitable than the sullen folk of Haggard's country. Their villages lay
bald as bones between knifelike hills where nothing grew, and they themselves had hearts unmistakably as sour as boiled beer.
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Posts: 867 (06/17/09 04:19:05) Veteran Shockliner |
LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS by Charlaine Harris
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