William Gibson's The Peripheral. This is one of those books that makes me think "I have no clue what that last sentence/paragraph/page was all about." But it is getting more comprehensible, after reading the first half of it, kind of.
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Read me a couple old Airboy comics, 1948. The entire run (including Air Fighters Comics, it's original title) is insane pulpy gold. Some great Carmine Infantino art, especially on The Heap.
Love the Heap--comics first swamp encrusted mockery of a man. Once a German flying ace, crashed and burnt in the muck and come back as a green shaggy monster. Looks kinda like Marvel's Man-Thing, but with a smaller...snozz? Trunk? (God, that last sentence sounds sleazy, but really, it isn't meant to). Alan Moore even payed tribute to ol Heap during his run of Swamp Thing--you can see the Heap planted with the rest of the Parliment Of Trees in issue #47.
Love the Heap--comics first swamp encrusted mockery of a man. Once a German flying ace, crashed and burnt in the muck and come back as a green shaggy monster. Looks kinda like Marvel's Man-Thing, but with a smaller...snozz? Trunk? (God, that last sentence sounds sleazy, but really, it isn't meant to). Alan Moore even payed tribute to ol Heap during his run of Swamp Thing--you can see the Heap planted with the rest of the Parliment Of Trees in issue #47.
Reading "My Life With Deth" by David Ellefson. Great read (and totally different than Dave Mustaine's book) about the Band Megadeth.
Before The Shining does anyone remember ever seeing red rum before? Is that where the author of The Third Wife saw it?
I just bought Shirley Jackson's new book, Let Me Tell You.
Apparently it is a collection of essays on various things, like how to write and short stories never published. Anxious to read this. Shirley is deceptively talented. Simple straight forward language that packs a punch.
Apparently it is a collection of essays on various things, like how to write and short stories never published. Anxious to read this. Shirley is deceptively talented. Simple straight forward language that packs a punch.
Still working on "Sometimes There's Pie" -it's a bit of sleeper novel, but engaging, lovable characters. Kind of like an Anne Tyler read. Worth it, but not something you can't put down. Which is probably why it's taking me 2 months to read it.
I've got to get a copy of that one!
So many dead writers coming out with new books lately.....
There's so many live ones that aren't nearly as good![/QUOTE]
I'm reading a book called Modern Tales of Horror. It is a short story collection selected by Dashiell Hammett and was published in 1932. The first story was a really good one. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. This is long before King or Jackson or Matheson. Very interesting to see what was considered horror then. The only story in there that i actually read before is The Music of Erich Zann by Lovecroft. It will be an interesting journey, i'm sure.
Hitchbot strikes backI looking forward to the new H.G. Wells book
I'm sure you'll get it read before me, let me know what your thoughts are!
Just picked Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki off the shelf where I'd placed it after returning from the bookstore. I've read at least one other from Murakami...and I read the first page of this one. Has an interesting idea so I think I'll go with it...instead of Nevada Barr's Superior Death, set on Isle Royale, mystery, close to home. Tsukuru is a sophmore in college story opens...curious image of a door...to death. "As far as the this world was concerned, he would simply no longer exist--just as this world would no longer exist for him." An idea I've seen expressed a time or two...will have to look/track down the notes I made where this idea exists in other stories...The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By? Also in Pesoa, I think. Who created all those personnas in that one story. "Fully-developed heteronyms" I think someone called them. The mark of zero I began to call it...Willeford has one story, too, same idea. Someone mentioned ideas. Here's one...the mark of zero...take it and run with it. See where it leads you. A door perhaps. Would you open it, if it led directly to death? People are crazy.
Still Re-reading and loving IT, probably my fifth or sixth trip through the Derry sewers. You can't touch this stuff, this is vintage King. Tell yez, ain't nobody can write about the fifties like Uncle Stevie. The 50s are such a dominating presence in this novel--so much of its flavor comes from that Howdy Doody/Bettie Page decade. And the 'present day' sections, how they fairly reek of the Reagan eighties. Time and place are important to this work--inseparable, I'd say.
Heard this new 'director' is gonna 'update' the story for his adaption. I got a set of *HONKS!* he can update...
Heard this new 'director' is gonna 'update' the story for his adaption. I got a set of *HONKS!* he can update...
Just finished The Third Wife , wow, wow, wow. Back to Blackwater until the library calls again!
I would assume, but I loaned my copy of the book to my MIL, so I can't look up the reference exactly, darn it!
Did you think the book needed the epilogue? I seriously did.
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