What do you think of it so far? I'm a fan of Kerouac's stuff, if you like On the Road, check out Big Sur and Dr. Sax.

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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an introduction, by JD Salinger.

Little over halfway through, and really enjoying it. Makes me wish I could just pack up and go somewhere, heh.

The Hellbound Heart- Clive Barker

I looked for it everywhere after I saw Hellraiser but I could never find it, until about a week ago. I cracked it open then had it stolen by my girlfriend.....

[QUOTE=Geddy;822689]What do you think of it so far? I'm a fan of Kerouac's stuff, if you like On the Road, check out Big Sur and Dr. Sax.
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I think Dr. Sax is Kerouac' s best.

Swan Song by Robert R McCammon. Great story; very much like The Stand if there was no actual theology involved and there was a nuclear war instead of superflu.

The Haunted Air: A Repairman Jack Novel by F. Paul Wilson

i am spock - leonard nimoy

Night Visions, Night Voices: Lair of the Hidden Gods, Vol. 1 – The first volume of an anthology of Japanese Lovecraft mythos stories. Great concept, but so far the execution is iffy. The first “short” (120 pages!) was terrible – and it was by the series’ editor. The second was more promising, though, so I hold out hope.

Sam

Finished Stephen King's IT and started his amazing The Shining!:)

I think It's a lot better than the Shining actually. Salem's Lot and the Stand are too.

Still reading On the Road, but also started into David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. Seems like fascinating stuff so far.

Vellum by Hal Duncan

The Illuminations, by Arthur Rimbaud

Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism. Pretty intense study of religious symbolism by the master historian of religion Mircea Eliade. Ashe.
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Fugue State, Brian Evenson's latest short story collection - and probably his best one to date. It's the most consistently great, has a straight up comedy story in it (though not without a touch of horror), and is just generally excellent.

Sam

Couldn't finish Vellum, so I'm putting it aside for the moment....just can't get into it.

Getting ready to start The Death List by Paul Johnston

I'm reading your namesake Doc - just started Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

One of my favorite plays.

I can see why...just finished, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'd love to see a production of this on stage...must be breathtaking (if done properly, of course).

It really would be. Goethe's Faust is also brilliant and mostly told in dramatic form, but the last act lacks the punch of Marlowe's I feel.

Just After Sunset by Stephen King

Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane

The Essential Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett

Also just finished off Shaw's Arms and the Man.

Between big chunks of the surprisingly heavy Absolute Sandman vol. 1, I've been reading a lot of Jack London shorts. My mom always wanted me to read London growing up and I resisted it. She may be happy to hear that I'm loving these stories - especially The 1,000 Dozen, Make Westing, and A Piece of Steak. London could really write.

Sam

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

Just finished Hellbound Heart after putting it off for weeks. I'm going to finish The Plauge by Camus soon.

Kickass reading. A Doll's House is, in my opinion, the best volume of Sandman. It's serial killer convention encouraged me to ask a lot of questions about the phenomenon and do some of the research I did that led me to creating the Murderland world. And, as for Jack London, he's a great American writer and a great American journalist, much better with short fiction than novels. To Build a Fire is really something.

I did the same thing, not a big fan of his novels but his short stories are pretty good.

Signs and Symbols. Pretty good anthology of current and historic symbols. Ashe.
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I've been meaning to check out Camus lately, lemme know what you think of it.

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Hunting and Gathering, by Anna Gavalda

Nine Stories, by JD Salinger

Just finished Sea of the Patchwork Cats by Carlton Mellick III. An eerie quiet, poetic, post apoc Bizarro book about a man who's all alone after the whole world commits suicide.
Now I'm reading The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. In spite of occasional bad writing, it's shaping up to be pretty cool.

Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

The United States Occupation of Haiti. Just starting this one that covers the US's messy occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934. Probably not our finest moment, but it appears that we learned our history lesson and did it right during the second occupation in 1994. Ashe.
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Current Book
 

I'm reading Stephen Kings 'Salem's Lot' for the second time.:D

A worthwhile pursuit. Reading The Strain left me feeling like I should do the same.

Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon – A new novel about identity, dead parents, travel, and how circumstances reveal who you are, rather than shaping it. Chaon clearly loves horror and it comes through even in his literary fiction. I’m less than third through, but this is shaping up well.

Sam

So many on and off, don't know if I can pinpoint one!

Dracula
My Booky Wook
Firestar
THUD!
Lady Killers

I saw "My Booky Wook" at Barnes & Nobel once.....I was with a friend and I started laughing at the title..cause I switched the B and the W and was like look its "My Wooky Book"...... Sure Wookie is spelled wrong,but It worked 'cause of the title.... :D

Top 10 List
 

Stephen Kings Regulator's is top grossing of all time. Sorry to bust your balloon but learn something about sales of horror books before you comment. After that his Green Mile series scored big at the book store. check it out yourself.:mad:

Devil in the White City
 

It's not fiction, but definitely horror. The author, Erik Larson, balances two stories: one about the conception and construction of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the other about an opportunistic serial killer who set up a hotel to lure the fair tourists. While it takes a while for the book to gain its momentum, it really is darkly fascinating. I'm halfway done with it now and the level of dread and tension is spectacular.

I'll let you all know how it pans out in the long run...