how is this?

i've read it before - remember :)

i remember it being ok (considering i'm not a fan of horror fiction)
so far - it's ok again ... nothing to write home about ..good for killing time while eating my morning cereal :)

Well, the menopausal brain forgot that you read it before! :D Hey, I could have gone on Who Wants to be a Superhero and been called "The Amazing Menopausal Brain"! :D

well, he suggested i buy it because it's his first novel (i bought this and one other from him)

i'm about 100 pages in and i have to say it's pretty impressive for a first work.

he does one thing i like - a lot .. he doesnt feel the need to provide every little detail to describe the characters .. he builds a framework via the actions of the characters and lets you fill in the blanks yourself.

he also avoids a lot of other cliches i see in horror fiction all the time .. painfully obvious forshadowing ... silly characters ...

so far its pretty good ..

just finished Ketchum's Off Season (the uncut version)

excellent writing considering that this is his first novel ..

it has the same feel and flow as Last House or I Spit ..
intense, brutal, no frills.

no cliches either .. impossible to know how this one will end at any time in the novel..

Handling and Restraint in Introduction to Veterinary Technology

interview with the vampire - anne rice

Clive Barker-The Hellbound Heart.
Great story. One of the few occasions where I like the story and the movie equally.

Im fighting my way through Treasure Island by Robert Lousis Stevenson.

I really dont like novels like this...normally I would have given up on it, but I have to read it for a stage version that Im in this fall. Our play is gonna rock, but God the book is boring.

Oh, if anyone is famiulliar with the book...Im Dr. Livesay:)

Dark Delicacies

it's a horror anthology that won the Stoker award this year - great shorts from Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Steve Niles, Whitlry Strieber, Richard Matheson and others.

also reading Education of a Felon by Edward Bunker

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Memoirs of a Geisha. One of my favorite "historical fiction" books.

Dark Terrors 6. It's the annual collection by Gollancz. Pretty strong selection this year, I'd say, with an excellent story by Ramsey Campbell.

I am currently reading Stephen King's Gunslinger series. I'm on book 5 'Wolves Of The Calla' right now.

Night of the Crabs by Guy N Smith. The cover art for his books is so bad its good!

Pirates of Venus - edgar rice burroughs

picked up all 5 volumes of the series at a used book store for $3 bucks each - Score !!

(i collect ERB books and other classic heroic fantasy - one of my guilty pleasures)

scarymida15
 

i am currently reading what janie found?

im reading the hellbound heart, really great so far.

Pirates of Venus is going pretty fast so I picked up Timothy Findley's HeadHunter to read.

(no not a horror)

the late timothy findley was a canadian writer - from toronto.

this book looks pretty cool ... its written as if from the point of view of a scitzophrenic who is an ex librarian.

she's convinced that she's responsible for letting Kurtz out of 'heart of darkness' (the book) and he's running rampant causing trouble. in Toronto.

a great author - too bad he isnt as well known outside of canada as he should be.

curious incident of the dog in the night time

I'm currently reading "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". It's fairly good so far. Not my usual sort of book but I occasionally delve into the classics.

BlueCherub

I am reading The Mist by Stephen King. It's a short story in the Skeleton Crew, and according to Mark Laidlaw (Writer for Half-Life), it was one of the inspirations for the game's story.

Years Best Fantasy and Horror (2003)

Breeding Ground by Sarah Pinborough

The Books Of Blood by Clive Barker

The Ruins, by Scott Smith (author of A Simple Plan).

Staci

how does it compare ?

simple plan was a pretty straight forward no frills kind of writing style that suited the story ..

is that typical of him or did his style change for this book ?

Just read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
It actually upset me. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I was upset after reading this one, too. Things really start to get intense. I am very eager for the next one...


JUst about to start Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway

The Edible Woman-Margaret Atwood

the books of blood- clive barker

Shelter by L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims

Deborah LeBlanc
 

A House Divided by Deborah LeBlanc

I'm actually nervous about reading the next one....I have a terrible feeling it's going to be horrible.

Rereading Tai-Pan. James Clavell is one of my all time favorite authors.

I read an article on MSNB.com in which Ms. Rowling admits two more people die in the last book...:eek:

robin hood

and the pigman

Wow...that would be quite a book.

(Fuck I hated The Pigman)

i thought the pigman was great when i read it in school ... very powerful for its intended level

I LOVED The Pigman.

Didn't they ban that book now though?

Dragons in the waters