I started reading Cujo last night.

I actually loved Cujo. The book goes so much deeper into fear and emotion than the movie does...

...but isn't that true with any Stephen King movie...?

got a few e-books, have to check which i have ;)

holy moley ! look who just dropped in :)

get lost on the forum ? :p

just keeping out of general, you? :p

just starting trouble :)

I just finished reading City of the Dead by Brian Keene. Hoo, boy. It's been a while since I've read a horror book that had the same blunt, visceral impact. It's been while since I've seen that sort of grim ending as well. No real spoilers there, as it's apparent fairly early on just how things are going to end up. If you like zombies, and you're willing to accept an extremely different kind of zombie, check these books out.

i liked the take on how the zombies got there .. but i found the writing to be simplistic - typical of the genre.

you want a book with a blunt visceral impact - check out Jack Ketchum's Open Season.


reading it was like watching Last House on the Left ... but waaaaaay more brutal

How does Open Season compare to The Girl Next Door, Urge? That's the only one of Ketchum's books that I've read, and to this day it remains the single most distressing thing I've ever read. If Open Season is more depressing than that, it should come with a prepackaged straight razor.

Sorry you didn't like Keene's books, by the way. I know that his style is... er... straightforward (or simple, as you put it) but something about the struggle of the characters to survive in a dead world (pun intended) really connected with me.

the story was ok .. i just found the prose weak.

i havent read The Girl Next Door .. but Open Season was probably the most brutal book i've read ... it was also extremely well written
avoided most character and situation cliches that most other horror writers seem to be more than happy to use over and over again.

I´ve been reading At The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.

The first 50 or so pages are very good and I was very excited about the book, but lately the story is so boooooooring! 20 or 30 pages with useless descriptions of EVERYTHING?? For what? To make me sleep, I guess...

Hope things improve, otherwise its just another disapointment.

Like Urgeok, I think there isn´t many good horror writers, let´s face it...

One of my only gripes with Lovecraft. Fantastic author IMO, but he can really get lost in descrption.

just finished Keene's THE RISING and i can see the complaint about it being very straightforward. that said i really enjoyed it and even was late to work on friday because i HAD to finish the last chapter (which was a cliffhanger - DAMNIT!) i agree with Noct- i liked the characters and found the action moved along at a rapid clip (ok- at times a bit irrationally rapid but i can see the whole chaos and insanity leading to crazy decisions).

am off to the mall today to try and find City of The Dead - I'm also looking forward to the new Keene novel _THE GHOUL_ which should be out sometime really soon.

Monster Nation
Follow up to Monster Island
A little bit of political crap and some of the same old stuff but it's still a good read so far.

i started reading Gaimans: Anansi Boys (spelling ?)

i must have 6 books on the go now ..

since sorting my collection i've found a ton of stuff i want to read - all at the same time..

you need more eyes

time - i need more time..

I would love more time to finish reading all the books I have collected over the years...meh.

Well I've started "I'm the vampire, That's why" By Michele Bradsley...not too bad...but not great either.

Any good?

Ive been wanting to check out more of his stuff

so far so good ...
he gets a little frilly around the edges - more than necessary .. but still decent.

I just got done reading "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" and I loved it.

i've read most of Gaiman' novels (except the Sandman series, which is rare to find), and highly recommend them to anyone. His short stories arent too bad as well (new one out Fragile Things). Some are very British, but overall very good quality stuff.

Neverwhere

Neil Gaimon

Just starting The Midnight Tour, Richard Laymon.

Currently halfway through 'Men, Women and Chainsaws', which is a textbook on my course. Pretty interesting stuff mostly, although some of the psychoanalytic interpretation gets a bit annoying. I'm also reading 'The Bloody Chamber' by Angela Carter (another course book)

A book about Spanish criminal law next one about Criminal Procedure, those books would take me a looong time

i just finished acid row by minette walters and birdman by mo hayder, both were good books.

Argh, I can sympathise with that, I started studying law before I switched and the amount of reading you have to get through is horrendous:eek:

Well, I'm searching a job as a lawyer and for that reason I need to be prepared in the better way. It's not funy but I hope that it would be useful

Frankenstein.

Nothing......it's been about a year since I've read a good book.

Re-reading Swan Song by Robert McCammon for the hundredth time. I'll never get tired of a nuclear apocalypse.

i just finished hot springs by stephen hunter 8/10. i am just starting darwin's blade by dan simmons.

American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Just finished Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys ... thought it was so-so

now reading his American Gods.

My wife just finished American Gods, now I'm about to read it.

Finished Monster Nation, David Wellington has put together an interesting story with a unique premise. Can't wait for the third book. Been read some Lovecraft lately, Dagon and The Statement of Randolph Carter yesterday.

Koko by Peter Straub.

Not new. But ties in with the Blue Rose trilogy which i've read. Halfway thru, so far so good. Depiction of life thru Vietnam war era quite believable.

* same as last book you bought thread *

Supernatural (1977) 1st Ed. Robert Muller.

This is a Horror anthology. (based upon a 1970's tv show of the same name, which no one seems to have heard of * Tv Show thread*)

It comprises 7 stories which where in the programme, stories include a vampire, werewolf and frankenstein style story.

so far it reminds me of a nicer gentler Damnation Game