Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture (2006). Nice collection of essays that expounds upon how Vodou is imbued into all aspects of the life of the Haitian. As opposed to the secular lifestyles of the Occident, the Haitian peoples do not divorce physical reality from spiritual reality, and these essays help to understand how Haitians view their spiritually infused reality. Ashe.
derek

I'll have to check that one out.

Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag.

Re-reading The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

also,

Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Tail of the Tip-Off by Rita Mae Brown

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Have I said that's my favorite book before? If I haven't, let me just tell you I've read it over thirty times and it was a HUGE influence on my personal style. Fitzgerald is the master of negative space.

The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State by Johnson and Earle. What is scary is that, after 12 years of collage and 43 years of life, i am still reading college textbooks for pleasure. So far it is a pretty interesting read if ya are into reading about anthropology, cultural evolution, and ethnology. Ashe.
derek (not my other brother derek)

Feeding Ground by Sarah Pinborugh (Mutant spiders on crack terrorize London!!), and Depraved by Bryan Smith (Disgustingly nasty backwoods community don't take too well to strangers!!!)...Both awesome and both out in Leisure paperback.

Cool, I'll check that out. Now I'm reading The Hobbit.

Songs for the Missing, by Stewart O'Nan - I'm about 50 pages in and already it's meticulously written, deeply sad, compelling. I can't wait to get back to it.

Sam

"Slice Of Life" by Paul Haines

Dark and twisted, soaked in black humour.

Available at www.themaynepress and www.paulhaines.com

Right now, a collection of short horror stories called Blood Lite. My next one will be: Twisted Tree by Kent Meyers

Trying to step away from vampires and monsters and work more towards the worst demon of all, man...

Coping with Difficult People by Robert M. Bramson. Great little book if ya have to deal with difficult people in the workplace and such. i actually work alone, live alone, and am as ascetic as one could be without living in a monastery, but read it anyway as a study in psychology. What i like most about the book was finding out what kind of difficult person i am/could be. Not only does it give hints as to how to deal with difficult people, it also may unknowingly help difficult people be deliberately and effectively more difficult. Its a good thing that i am such an eremite. Ashe.
derek

Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Good book....interesting,sad....etc..

I'm reading "Dead Until Dark" - Charlaine Harris

A Celebration of the Classics from Universal Studios :Monsters - various(essays by:Rick Barker,Ron Chaney,Sara Karloff,John Landis,Bela G. Lugosi,Stephen Sommers,Gloria Stuart...and more) Forward by: Forrest J. Ackerman
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Just started reading China Mieville's The Scar. I hope it's as good as Perdido Street Station.

I'm 1/2 way through William Peter Blatty's Legion. I read it a few years back, but have forgotten most of it.

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Just One Look, by Harlan Coben – My impression was that this guy was regarded as a good writer of intelligent modern crime thrillers. Guess not. This is a pretty bad book so far – bad writing, bad characters. I’ll probably power through, since I’m halfway done, but not good.

Sam

Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion by Gerald N. Callahan. Kind of plotless at the moment. Only 2 chapters in though. Combining science with philosophy doesn't seem to work out well. Waiting for a thesis besides his exploration of why he hallucinates seeing his dead first wife.

Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk

The Savage Mind by Clause Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). World class anthropologist's take on the psychology of the primitive mind. The guy is a genius and it shows in his writing, which i can just barely comprehend. Good stuff nonetheless. Ashe.
d

Guts: "...you can take a deep breath now, but I haven't been able to since."

MEAT joseph D'lacey. Pretty disturbing and entertaining at the moment.
Before that I read I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. One of the finest books I've ever read. Definately the best vamp novel FUCK TWILIGHT
Also if you like disturbing, gritty macabre tales check out my debut novel:

http://www.amazon.com/Playground-Sam...8128184&sr=8-1

If you like Meat, I recommend his novella The Kill Crew.

Naked Metamorphosis, by Eric Mays.

It's a Bizarro blend of Shakespeare and Kafka. Very, very energetic narrative with a lot of humor. A quick read. Picture "Hamlet" as it might have been written in the Star Trek mirror universe...if Mirror Shakespeare was tripping.

Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State by Philip Carl Salzman. Pretty good, though dry, stuff about the social nature of the world's pastoralist peoples. Ashe.
derek

Recently finished Dennis Lehane's "Shutter Island," he's not known primarily for horror and you could call it a psychological thriller, but it's super-creepy and incredibly well written.

Columbine by Dave Cullen - A truly excellent and comprehensive accounting of what really happened - not we think happened - that day. It's particularly valuable in destroying the "outcasts who snapped" narrative and showing that the massacre was the work of a psychopath, not a bullied kid.

Sam

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...so far, so good.

Civilization o the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor. Awesome history of this formative time. It reminds the reader just how preponderant Christianity and the papacy was in the formation of Europe. Ashe.
derek

Started Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane again.

Duncan's Diary, Birth of a Serial Killer
 

I just published this book and was interested in getting some feedback. I would love it if this site even reviewed it. It is a freaky story about life beginning for a serial killer.

Does anyone have any ideas how to contact the site owners and see if they would review it or are there readers out there who will give some feedback.

thanks

The in-house critic, Staci Layne doesn't really review books. You could send a comp copy or a PDF to somebody on the site who's interested, but HDC doesn't have an official book reviewer per se, which I lament because I've been on this site for a few years now and have not had an official review of my book. There are cool people who review books that look cool to them for Amazon or buy books they like, but that's the extent of it.

Thanks again for helping out.

I'm reading 'Dexter in the Dark'. It's the third book in the Dexter series. The books are pretty enjoyable. They have a sense of humour about them. The show departs from the books but I like what they've done.

I'm reading Son of the Circus by John Irving. Not a horror but still badass.

Fires, by Nick Antosca - An interesting premise - dark secrets about a town are revealed in the wake of a wild fire - but the execution was lacking. Just an OK book.

Lush Life, by Richard Price - A brilliant, beautiful book featuring hilarious dialogue, terrific prose, and a fascinating take on the historical dust kicked up by urban redevelopment.

Sam

Still Dracula. I haven't been reading much lately...

The Ruins, by Scott Smith - I enjoyed the movie a lot. So far, the book's solid, but I'm only about 50 pages in. I expect it to get a lot better.

Sam