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Understanding Movies (2008) by Louis Giannetti. Simply a great resource to better understand the mechanics of film.
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House of Fallen Trees by Gina Renalli

Incredible ghost/haunted house story that keeps you on your toes the entire time. Also has a bit of mystery in it which keeps you guessing. Seems like every time you think you have whats going on figured ouy the story just goes deeper. Great piece of writing and i loved the way it looped claustraphobia, fear, dread, insanity, and reality all within each other leaving your mind twisted as you can only just go along for the ride. You never really get a sence of what might be real or what the house and charaters think they are seeing. Great book and a great tribute to the classic writings like House on Haunted Hill and Turn of the Screw....which it reminded me a lot of. Meaning you can never really tell if one of em is crazy, if they all are crazy, or if its the house thats making them that way.`

Thanks Doc again for yet another great recomendation.

Finished: "Danse Macabre" and "On Writing" by Stephen King and "Anthem" by Ayn Rand
Working on: "The Great and Secret Show" by Clive Barker and "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Next: "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, "Desperation" by Stephen King, "The Stand" by Stephen King, and "Everville" by Clive Barker

Just finished House of Blood and Queen of Blood by Bryan Smith. Very gory, good story line. Sad that it is finished. I need more now!

Vanish - Pawlick
The Road - McCarthy

I am trading with another author Mark Tufo...Zombie Fallout. Not one for zombie books really, but there are lots of humorous tidbits scattered all through it. If you like zombies, it's good. I am looking for a reviewer here for my book,
The Horror of the Shade if any one is interested.

The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
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Just got into the Pendergast series and love it! I read 'Relic' and skipped the second book ( im borrowing them from a friend and she told me its not a necessity to read the second one so i skipped to the third)

Dewey's Nine Lives by Vicki Myron
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the second book in the Dewey books

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Its very emotional and heartbreaking, its one that at times i want to put down,but want to continue reading at the same time.

Currently, I'm reading book "The Ghost Hunter". It's mind blowing!

Cthulhu Mythos, Dark Delicacies I.

Darkened by Bryan Smith

I'm reading and enjoying Bryan Smith's apocalyptic horror novel Darkened. It's a fun read and available only as a digital download.

I hear Bryan Smith is great. Have you read his book for Deadite?

I'm reading Frankenstein for the second time now. But I'm actually in the middle of Stephen King's Cell. I really have to finish that.

Nathaniel Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter

Just started War of the Worlds plus Blood, Guts and Zombies :cool:

I am reading Stargate Atlantis Homecoming by Jo Graham and Melissa Scott at the moment, good book but I do not think it is completely faithful to the TV series when it comes to how the setting works, but all in all I am pleased with it.

Les 120 journées de Sodome (The 120 Days of Sodom) - Marquis de Sade

"Endless Night" by Richard Laymon

Found these gems about my "favorite" serial killer.

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Mmm I'm telling you... If he was still alive, and a little younger and well, obviously not completely fucking deranged, I'd totally kiss his poster goodnight.

Currently, I am reading a couple of novels, the first being Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund.

I am also reading "The Living Dead" which is a collection of zombie fiction, mainly short stories featuring some short stories by Clive Barker (creator of the Hellraiser franchise) and Stephen King (IT the clown, 1408, etc.)

I just finished reading Thomas Harris's infamous "The Silence of the Lambs" (1988) which the 1991 film of the same name is based off of.

very interesting ebook

I'm reading the ebook Haunted by Jordan LeBlanc. Pretty emotionally disturbing story. For a debut novel, it crosses lines many horror veterans have dared to even approach. I got it off smashwords for 1.99. I think it's on the nook and apple ibookstore as well for the same price. Worth a look, especially for less than 2 bucks.

If anyone wants to give it a look, it's here http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/39872

I'm reading the Damnation Game by Barker. I've read it many times, I just like reacquainting myself with his work every now and again.

Damnation Game is a great book I love it :)

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Finally got around to finishing this. Uneven mixture of essays to be sure. My favorite essay was of course "The Beating Of Black Wings: Supernatural Horror In Literature And The Fiction Of Edgar Allan Poe" by H.P. Lovecraft with Dorothy Scarborough's "Modern Ghost" a very close second, so much so I may order the book this essay was selected from new if I can't find a copy second hand. My least enjoyable essay was "Anthropology, Fiction, And The Occult: The Case Of Carlos Castaneda" by David Murray, not because of poor writing --- Murray is a very capable wordsmith --- but because this type of anthropological mysticism just doesn't appeal to me. Castaneda's books littered virtually every crack and crevice back in the seventies when I was spending all my time and money (I was single and employed fulltime) building my book collection. Wasn't attracted to them then and after seeing two of them in good condition at Goodwill the other day felt no nostalgic tug of missed opportunity.
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I'm reading two books at the moment: Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown and Sense and Sensibility and Zombies.

I'm struggling to get through Sense and Zombies. I'm not enjoying it as much as I enjoyed Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

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I'm reading the Damnation Game by Barker. I've read it many times, I just like reacquainting myself with his work every now and again.

Funny, doing the same thing: Midnight Meat Train, The Yattering and Jack, and Pig Blood Blues. All three this morning during a rain storm. Love reading horror while its rainy and gloomy outside.

Starting Rest in Pieces by Rita Mae Brown and Twilight (yeah, I know)

Reading Salem's Lot again...I read Bram Stoker's Dracula and decided to give King's novel another read through while I was in the vampire mood..

Just finished The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and loved it. It's young adult, but I HIGHLY recommend it to everyone here. It's a fast read and utterly engaging. Pretty psyched to read the next one.

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If there really are only seven original plots in the world, it's odd that boy meets girl is always mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the good guy never is. Yet we have Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, The House of the Scorpion—and now, following a long tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with too much finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for the United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a televised fight to the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on to one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She has the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser.It's no accident that these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. The State of Panem—which needs to keep its tributaries subdued and its citizens complacent—may have created the Games, but mindless television is the real danger, the means by which society pacifies its citizens and punishes those who fail to conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it makes this the right book at the right time. What happens if we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be obsessed with grooming, we'll talk funny, and all our sentences will end with the same rise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked in front of them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that I'm no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order not to hate these creatures who are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It isn't just the contestants who risk the loss of their humanity. It is all who watch.Katniss struggles to win not only the Games but the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this is the first book in a series, not everything is resolved, and what is left unanswered is the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she has given up to survive, but not whether the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to learn more.Megan Whalen Turner is the author of the Newbery Honor book The Thief and its sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The next book in the series will be published by Greenwillow in 2010.

http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Games-S.../dp/0439023483

I put aside Twilight and started reading The Pumpkin Muffin Murders by Livia J. Washburn

Finished BOOKS AND BATTLES by Irene and Allen Cleaton last night. Never heard of the Cleatons before and as far as I know this is their only book but their account of American Literature in the twenties, the decade of revolt by the younger generation led by F. Scott Fitzgerald zeroing in on novels and stories offering "shocking situations, unconventional language, and iconoclasm" indicates they had a ringside seat. Usually clear sighted and open minded they seemed to slip uncomfortably --- at least for me ---when it came to what they called Dark Art. In the chapter titled "The Vogue For Vogues" they said "The Negro Renaissance...attracted an enormous amount of attention in the first half of the 'twenties" because "the Young Intellectuals were demonstrating their lack of race prejudice by vocifeous praise of the art of the down-trodden black brother." Even though this book came out in 1937 I'm still uncertain how to view this. Neither good nor bad, just the way thinking percolated back then? Sub-conscious or subdued-conscious acceptance of white superiority? Anyway, they go on to say "But although they wrote prolifically and some of them wrote skillfully, the worth of their literature may be questioned now the fad has died...Few of the Negro writers and poets resisted the temptation to state the case of their race while the whites were welcoming their work so kindly." Gee, how nice of us White folk.

Racism or not, the Cleatons write well on a subject with which they have remarkable insight. Recommended with only one reservation: watch your step. Some nuggets are moss covered pyrites.

Getting ready to start Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke.

just finisht reading Dracula. amazing!

Yeah, I'm gonna have to read that sometime. Read FRANKENSTEIN and really liked it.

Im reading a collection of stories by Arthur Machen, he wrote some creepy stuff. His stories dont really describe the horror, but just the idea of it. I think that is more frightening than graphic blood and guts that so many stories have nowdays. I read The Great God Pan before I went to sleep last night and it was a little disturbing.

Getting ready to start "Cemetery Dance" by Preston & Child. Also reading "Murder She Meowed" by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown.

I still haven't managed to finish reading "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne so I've downloaded an Ebook version of it-see if that helps me finally get to the end.

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Getting ready to start "Cemetery Dance" by Preston & Child. Also reading "Murder She Meowed" by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown.

Just finished Cemetery Dance. Loved it! I recommend it for people who like mysteries. I'm looking forward to reading more books by this duo.

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz