i love that series,is that the first one?...i still havnt read the fourth

Yes. Not even half-way through it yet.

My Cross To Bear--Greg Allman

I am almost done with The Darkly Splendid Realm, by Richard Gavin. It's actually what made me come looking for a forum I could talk about these things in. I have so enjoyed this collection of stories. My favourite story was Phantom Passages, but the dread-moths were the coolest concept. I don't suppose anyone else has read it?

North End
 

I'm reading this at the moment. It seems like a cliched story - horror underground - but it draws you in. The only problem is that it's only available on Kindle.

Reading what?

I think he's reading this: http://www.amazon.com/North-End-eboo...ords=North+End

He made it as the subject title. Definitely easy to overlook.

Oh ok i see it now

IT. Because it has more than the film shows us.

so iv been told,been searching the opp shops for a copy with no avail

Just started reading "The Help".

Among other things that I'm reading, this:
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Reading Swan Song.

That is so on my list now. I wonder if there is a Kindle version...

After Swan Song I read a western called The Man From Boot Hill. Now I'm reading the latest Dexter novel.

^^ How was Swan Song? My fiance has repeatedly recommended it to me but I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

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Just finished Ready Player One (2012) by Ernest Cline


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Description from Amazon:

Quote:

It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig. And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle. Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape. A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?

Simply stated, this is a silly little adventure tale for fanboys who are obsessed with the 80s. Not necessarily well-written and definitely cheesy, it was an oddly entertaining little read.

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this was fuckin amazing..if joe does 30 more of these his dad will have to lick his sons asshole

have to make sure i dont check it out

Just finished a book titled "Draculas" last week written by 4 authors including F. Wilson.

Currently reading "IT" for the first time.

ha - Yeah, definitely not a book I'd recommend per se... It was just pure fanboy fluff. Entertaining but not necessarily "good." ;)

I do want to read Horns - Been on my "To Read" list for some time; I loved Heart Shaped Box and Twentieth Century Ghosts.

horns is much better than heart shaped box, twentieth century ghost is just a short story yeah?iv read a short story by joe hill with the same name in "the best of best new horror"

It's a short story, yes, but also the title of a collection of that and other short stories of his. Definitely check it out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061147974

ohh, ok now i get it,coz i had seen it talked about on this thread as a single book and was like,fuck that book must be like 10 pages long :D

I usually start my Halloween reading on September 1st and this year I'm beginning it with CREEPS BY NIGHT, a 1931 horror anthology edited by Dashiell Hammett. The first story, William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" was genuinely creepy and disturbing and the second, "Green Thoughts" by John Collier is just as good so far.

Just started City of Night, book 2 in the Frankenstein series by Dean Koontz

enjoying it? read them along time ago but remember enjoying

Yes, I am....so far. I keep waiting for it to get shitty. I've been pretty disappointed with Koontz lately.

I read ALOT during my down time between clients. right now I'm reading a book called "sex killers" it's a non fiction book I found at a used book store. and I think it might be European. there are stories about American killers but on the back of the book where it says the price is says 15 and has the sign for the pound. I thought that was interesting anyway pretty good book

Im reading FLESH by Richard Laymon.

Not his best but Laymon is awesome

I agree. And even though it's not his best I still think it's a decent book.

The classic 'American Psycho' by Bret Easton Ellis!

The Greatest Show on Earth, the evidence for evolution, Richard Dawkins

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this book came out when i was born!and i can tell this particular book is one of the originals as the pages are falling out as i turn them.not bad so far and im not very far in

Currently reading The Best of H.P. Lovecraft, and so far I'm very impressed. They are all good, if not great. It was pretty funny, in the introduction the person mentions that Lovecraft was accused of racism, I was immediately skeptical and thought that this was the normal situation of people just starting controversy over a 'graphic' tale. Then within a few pages of the first story the guy's cat was named "N*ggerman". (Can I say that on the forum?...)

Rereading THE HELLBOUND HEART - Clive Barker

yeah but everyone was racist in those days wernt they

A good amount of people were, but still the point stands. Just look up some of his racist quotes, they're absolutely awful, if not somewhat funny because it's so bad. It wasn't just blacks he hated. But despite this he still is one of the best and most influential horror writers ever.

It took me a few Lovecraft stories to get into his work. His writing style demands one's full attention.