Battlestar Galactica: Armageddon
by
Richard Hatch

Just finished Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen.

Hearing some rumblings that Widener has been busy with a new horror chapbook...:halloween:

Any good?

Good if you like "quiet" but effective suspense. So you might like it. You don't seem the type that enjoys the blood-and-thunder story. :danger:

Fortunately I picked up a copy about two years ago at a rummage sale downtown. If I can figure out where I put it I might try to fit it in next year.

Horns, by Joe Hill

finishing up Time Fall....love time travel stories...then moving on to Under The Shanghai Tunnels..By one Lee Widener...or as he is known around these parts...Neverending

Fabulous! Hope you enjoy it!

trying to finish the final book in The Strain trilogy ... but it's a struggle.
I don't care about any of the characters... it's just so dull.

hopefully the TV mini series will find a way to breathe some life into it

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Just enough time to finish out the year with a 142 page quickie. Good so far.

Chick Bassist by Ross Lockhart.

Finished up this one...

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and started on this one...

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Started this, the first in a long line of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires:

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I'm about halfway through The Lords of Salem by Rob Zombie (who only wrote the script) and B.K. Evenson. The writing is eh and I feel no connection whatsoever to the characters.

Also, I'm currently reading a book of shorts, I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates. I'm something of an Oates junkie, especially when it comes to Gothic and neo-noir stuff.

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow.

Gonna start Doctor Sleep today

John Dies at the End by David Wong.

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Not a book, but I recently read some of the Grimm fairy tales. Also, I began reading Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (for the first time). I am about 60% through and have really loved it so far.

Heard these are really disturbing shit. Any good ones for horror buffs?

Reading Towing Jehovah by James Morrow

How are they? The Haircut cover caught my eye.

I liked Welch's Trainspotting and Porno but haven't read his other work.

Walking around Heathrow airport with the hot pink Porno cover complete with blow-up doll definitely got some stares...

I still need to settle on a current book; just reading bits and pieces from this and that.

EC - Have you read the comic Transmet? I think you'd dig it.

Skagboys is great so far. It's the prequel to Trainspotting so you'd probably like it. I dug pretty much everything Welsh has done so the rest of his books are definitely worth checking out.

Haircuts was alright. I wasn't blown away by it. Would've loved it if I was a teenager I think ::big grin::

The Warren Ellis one? I need to check that out. Slowly getting through a few things I'm behind on... finally read Preacher! Great stuff.

I have only read a few, but I would recommend The Juniper Tree, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Cap.

Oops. "Welsh," not "Welch." ::embarrassment:: It's been a while; I should check it out.

Preacher is SO GOOD. I have the trades somewhere; I should dig them up and re-read them.

Yep; Transmet is the Warren Ellis cyberpunk-y trade about Spider Jerusalem, rogue Journalist - It's so brilliant and ahead-of-its time. I started re-reading it and it makes me want to cheer.

Fuck yeah it is! I wonder if the rumored TV series will go ahead?

Reading The Trail of Cthulhu at the moment - it is entertaining enough but a bit by the numbers.

Next up for me is Johnny Alucard, the latest in Kim Newman's ANNO DRACULA series (which every one should read). Being dying to read this for a while.

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NORDEN, ERIC (? - ?). American author of the routine sf novel THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION (1973). [PN]

This is the entire entry for Eric Norden as it appears in the first edition (1979) of THE SCIENCE FICTION ENCYCLOPEDIA edited by Peter Nicholls. The next edition, revised in 1993, is a little more thoughtful, informative and in general presents the author and his work in a more positive light. A much needed correction as the kneejerk dismissal in the earlier edition is a slap in the face to this little powerhouse (142 pages) where the Axis Powers won World War II and a New York City detective teams up with the Gestapo to hunt for "the last Jew in Nazi America." While names of roads and certain landmarks have been altered to reflect the new world order, everyday life goes on much as now. The police still fight crime, elderly rich ladies still haunt the antique shops, traffic is still a Gordian's knot of rolling machinery and smog bows to no Führer. But below the surface lies a society of corruption and perversion, and it gets uglier. The good guys are the bad guys who think they are the good guys and are presented as such. But that's because most of the American characters were born after the war and grew up under Nazi domination and if they don't wholeheartedly embrace National Socialism they at least accept it as the legitimate law of the land. For example, while his Gestapo partner tortures a "Christie", in this case a Catholic priest, for information the detective expresses doubt the situation justifies the procedure but is unaffected by the mind numbing horror it produces. Norden knows what he wants and spares little to get it.

And the elderly "blue-rinsed matron" mentioned above? She and her ilk like to shop with their pet picaninnies. You know what a picaninny is? You sure? As the detective describes the scene: "Her picaninny, one of the few I'd seen since the labs made them commercially available, pranced on its leash, gurgling excitedly in little drooling sputters. As she passed us it stopped and sniffed at my trouser leg and I could see the neat stiches of the lobo trepanning across the kinky curls and the puckered white scar of the tracheotomy like a pale half-moon on the black throat. I tried to see if the thing was spayed but she'd dressed it up in silver lamé pantaloons and a little brocaded vest. It started to snuffle up to Macri but he lashed out with his foot and it scampered, mewling in terror. The old broad cast us a filthy look and patted it consolingly, whispering little endearments, before exiting with a final glare in our direction." I'm not sure how Nicholls can write this off as "routine."

This type of futuristic surgery isn't the only claim to sf this novel makes. There's another, and depending of the reader's bent --- as for me I'm especially warped in this regard --- it either qualifies the story as genuine sf or marks certain characters as massively insane. Whichever one chooses, this glimpse of an alternate America is both ugly and powerful. I put this book down grateful the Third Reich failed in its attempt to overthrow the world. If it hadn't, as Albert Speer said in an interview conducted by the author for Playboy magazine: "The long dark night would have begun, and finally man would not even remember the light."

Haunted Highways

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It's YA, but pretty decent. I'm about halfway through. Some of the pictures are neat.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

Re-discovered Lovecraft after many years.
Didn't own any of his work so I bought all 4 volumes of collected short stories for €5 a piece. The longer stories are included too so I think I have everything.
Right now I'm halfway throught volume 2.


Didn't know him until recently.
Only read a couple of stories but this is great stuff imo.
His background story gives his stories a little extra.

Looks like you certainly got your money's worth, but what kind of money is it? The symbol before the 5 is unknown to me. Euro?

does anyone else find it amusing that in the literary corner of this forum, there is a sticky heading called "What book u reading at the moment?"

Yes, that's always bugged me...

Can you or V change it?

Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke

Yeah, that's the Euro sign.
There are more books from the same series. All for the same price.
http://www.wordsworth-editions.com/c...&-supernatural
These are the other ones I bought:
M.R. James - Collected Ghost Stories
Robert E. Howard - Haunter Of The Ring & Other Tales
But I haven't read those yet.

Kindness Goes Unpunished
by
Craig Johnson

what book me reading right now?

Doctor Sleep - Stephen King.

not a fan of this writer but my curiosity got the better of me

I'm reading it too. Liking it so far. Not a fan of King huh?

nope - grew up reading them as he wrote them - after The Stand I never read anything again I liked.

He's like hooky top 30 music, or overripe fruit...
catchy at first but once I see the same technique and tricks over and over again it starts turn me off big time.


unless you're ACDC