Working on The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman and Cerebus Vol. 3: Church and State 1 right now. Both are good, though in very different ways. Don't know if the Goodman is going to stay good. It's a first novel and rough in places.

Sam

Book Im Reading Now
 

Im Rereading A Brian Lumley Book Called Deadspeak. Its About Vampires And The Man Who Hunts Them Its Good

I just finished reading this year's Best New Horror, and I'd like to mention that "Haeckel's Tale" is probably the best thing that Clive Barker's written in fifteen years.

Up next: Dark Delicacies.

Been reading short stories as of late. Read one from Storie of Terror and Madness From the Borderlands called N0072-JK1 by Adam Corbin Fusco. I love how dark and clinical it was, moved along at a brisk pace too. The little intro describes it as, "Study of Synaptic Response of the Organism to Spontaneous Stimulation of Vulnerability Zones. Photographic Analysis.

Just finished The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. Now I'm reading Brimstone by Preston and Child. Looking forward to Dean Koontz's new book coming out this week.

finished Gaiman's American Gods ... not a bad book..

now reading Richard E Grants - With Nails ..

great fucking book !!! this is the format i wish all movie stars would write - instead of their usual bios.

Grant writes it diary form - exclusively talking about his involvement in films - film by film (starting with Withnail and I)

great reading !

i was totally disappointed in american gods - i really felt it had a great premise but couldn't muster anything to pull it off. reinforced my general feeling that gaiman is way overrated.

but, if you liked that, and want a slightly more 'literary' take on the same general theme - check out The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break (or something close to that) - i liked this one but was a little underwhelmed by the ending.

thing is - i'm not a horror fiction reader but i've heard a lot about gaiman.
i read (stardust?) then ananci boys, then american gods.

i have good omens and neverland around somewhere - havent read them yet.

he reminds me of a lighter younger clive barker.

i'm not a big fan .. but the book kept me reading to the end..

I started Micheal Slade's Special X series at the beginning of summer, thus far I have read:
Headhunter
Ghoul
Cutthroat
Ripper
Primal Scream
Evil Eye
Burnt Bones

and right now I am halfway through Hangman.

The writing in this series is really up and down as the pen name starts off as three dudes and then they start to drop off, until the last few books of the series are one of the original dudes and his daughter writing tandem. The cool thing about them is that they are all based out of vancouver (where i live).
I would reccomend the first two to fans of splatter-pulp, as the gore is really well laid out, although it comes off kinda like a police report in certain parts. The ones after the first two are still bloody, but tend to be more reasearch driven (hence long bibliographies at the end) and kinda lose their spooky edge.
I would highly reccomend them all to anyone who lives or has lived/knows alot about Vancouver, as all the murders take place in easily recognizable landmarks (mostly).

I have
Death's Door
Bed of Nails
Swastika
left to read. Hopefully I can finish them sooner than later, I was hoping to be done by the time Kamikaze was in paperback, but i think that may have happened earlier this month.

Here's dudes webby if anyone is interested:

http://specialx.net/

And I just saw that they are making a movie out of Headhunter (the first novel in the series)!!! SWEET!!!

http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=2931

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Lovecraft. Very good so far, after the total letdown of In The Mountains of Madness.

The third Brother by Nick McDonell, so far a bit of a let down after his first novel.

that was the only one i read and i didnt like it at all...
never gave another one a chance because of it..

i would prolly stay away then if i were you, some of the other works are definetly different than that one, but i don't think the changes constitute an improvement, per se.

im reading thru some clive barker stuff i downloaded

Just started Rohinton Mistery's "A Fine Balance" yesterday. Doesnt seem too bad so far, pretty well written even though it's not really my kind of book.

The problem is I'm reading it for school and have to finish it for Monday:eek: :eek:

713 pages in 4 days...wish me luck. You wont be seeing me around here much this weekend, thats for sure.

The next week I would take 4 days for relax so maybe I would had enough time to read new material

Re-reading Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

I just started to read The Stand by Stephen King's

The Store by Bentley Little

DC - Crisis on infinite Earths...novelisation thing...haven't read the series, bit before my comic reading days. Seems interesting enough.

So Ive got through 229 pages so far...not bad. Like I said it's not really my style, but its well written. Supposedly it gets pretty distubing later on, not sure if Im looking forward to that or not...

Silent Playgrounds By Daunta Reah

i read the Slade series at home but at work i am reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. I found it on the ground and picked it up and decided to read it on my break. It's pretty fucking awesome.

I'm reading Stephen Kings CELL.
And Neil Gaimans 'Smoke and Mirrors'...again.
And Neils new short story collection 'Fragile Things'.

And Granma Joy's 'Hope for Hurting Women'...she is a local author and what a woman!
I went to one of her book signings and I really dig her whole schick,I think she's going to be BIG.
The very first page of her book just fucking floored me and inspired me and made me cry and about 20 other emotions.

And about 3 different magazines.

I think I have developed ADD.:D

undercurrents by ridley pearson.

Well I didnt finish it in time persay....but I lucked out because my teacher wasnt there today:p

Just finished it ow...damn good book. Fantastic characters.

finished Richard E Grants 'With Nails'

i cant recommend this book enough .. easily the best autobio/book about film i've ever read.

its written in diary form .. each chapter is a movie he worked on starting with Withnail and I.

no bullshit - no dirt - just an extremely entertaining and unintentionally informative take on his experiences in film.

midnights children-salman rushdie


id got it for english lit 2 years ago

Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon. Awesome book. I'm only about a hundred pages in, and it's already a contender for best fantasy I've read.

The History of Atheism- Georges Minois
How Free Are You? The Determinism Problem- Ted Honderich
Of Human Bondage- Somerset Maugham
Tender is the Night- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Symbolism- Michael Gibson

Has that been out long? This is the first Ive heared of it...

Loved Smoke & Mirrors, will have to grab this one soon.

im reading part 1 of Imajica by CLive barker, and im also reading the drawing of the three by stephen king. I had to read the giver for school yesterday, I thought it was going to be gay since it was from school but it was actualy pretty good.

Just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay. If I hadn't already read Gardens of the Moon, this would have been the best novel I've read this year.

spider world - the tower .. by colin wilson.


this guy is a pretty sharp writer ..
one of the guys heavily influenced by Lovecraft.

nice
 

"Down a dark hall" by Lois Duncan she is the shit lol. she is like Stephen King, but a girl. with the suspense. Check out her books, they are awesome!

"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

and

The Vampire Who Came For Christmas

Cell by Stephen King.

I'm right in the middle of Lynch on Lynch, a book-length interview with David Lynch about his career, films, painting, approach to art and much more. Great stuff, though reading it for an hour or two makes the rest of the world look pretty weird when you're done.

Sam