What Are You Reading?

[fljoe0]

I'm finishing up my reread of 11-22-63 and I'm thinking of reading Oswald's Tale by Norman Mailer. I bought it a couple years ago and haven't read it yet. The reread of 11-22-63 has sparked my interest in it. No matter what your opinion is of how things went down in Dallas, there's no denying that Oswald is a strangely fascinating character.

 

[doowopgirl]

20th Century Ghosts. What a cracker. Especially the title story and Best New Fiction.

 

[doowopgirl]

I liked that one from the first, and liked it even more the second (and third, and fourth) times. His follow up, Thirteen Moons, was also very good, but the third, Nightwoods, stumbled a bit.

I love 13 Moons and I agree that Nightwoods stumbled a bit

 

[Haunted]

Had to set Dracula and Hitler aside as the library called. I picked up and starting reading Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas which I am liking so far. I also I picked up The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood and The Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters. Think I will start the Winters book after my hundred page break from Odd Thomas.

 

[Kurben]

Reading the admittedly rather strange Philip Jose Farmer. His Tarzan Alive: The Definite biography of Lord Greystoke. He writes it as a real biography handling Burroughs books as sources under which a real person is hidden and he sets out to trace what is true and false in the Tarzan books. Conan Doyle and doctor Watson and Sherlock holmes are also there in small roles. He even builds a family tree for Tarzan where he manages to fit in several famous both fictional and real characters. As long as you dont take it to serious it is very enjoyable. He has written similar biographies for Sherlock Holmes and Doc Savage and for Phileas Fogg. All of whom goes deeper than the books they figure in revealing secrets that the author either hid from the reader, deemed unimportant or didnt know. Farmer has certainly tead his forerunners. His more "ordinary" SF centers often on parallell universes in different shapes. World of Tiers, RiverWorld and Dayworld are probably his best series.

 

[Tooly]

Has anyone read any of the Bryant and May series by Christopher Fowler?

thoughts?

I got a heap for my mum before she passed and she said they were excellent. I'll be giving them a go in the new year.

 

[Dana Jean]

I got a heap for my mum before she passed and she said they were excellent. I'll be giving them a go in the new year.

Let me know what you think when you start.

 

[Doc Creed]

A palate-cleanser. That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. I also read a Welty short story called 'A Worn Path' that knocked me in the gut and I'll be danged if it didn't bring a tear to my eye. I highly recommend it and you can read it for free online.

 

[HollyGolightly]

I'm reading some seriously fluffy chic lit. Mercury in Retrograde. I need a little brain break. It's funny. I like the characters. It doesn't keep me up late reading. Just what I need right now.

danie You've got yourself a hunk!!

 

[HollyGolightly]

A palate-cleanser. That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. I also read a Welty short story called 'A Worn Path' that knocked me in the gut and I'll be danged if it didn't bring a tear to my eye. I highly recommend it and you can read it for free online.

Welty is a class act. I love her muchly.

 

[Tooly]

Let me know what you think when you start.

Certainly.

 

[niro]

Wooho, we are trying to keep the Secret Santa tradition to stay alive this year.

I guess mostly misery chastain loves co. and me will be organising.

You have to sign up till the 20th of December noon USA time.

MsMod made the Secret Santa thread a sticky one. The board will be closing probably on the 23rd for the holidays.

So please sign up in the Secret Santa 2016 Thread (on the top of chattery teeth)

It will be fun!

 

[Blake]

I'm reading some stories from SF=27, edited by Kenneth Bulmer. About two months ago I was in an Op=shop, and I got a great little book, 'Great Ghost Stories' ed, Herbert van Thal. It's got colour prints in it as well. It was a book given to a girl in 1961, she was in year two which would make her about eight years old then. One of the prints in of a man with a knife. These days you couldn't give a kid a book like that otherwise you'd have the lawyers trying to make trouble.

 

[lowman]

I am reading four past midnight at the moment.

 

[Brian's Twinner]

The Stand.

 

[skimom2]

Eaters of the Dead-Michael Crichton. It's okay so far.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Eaters of the Dead-Michael Crichton. It's okay so far.

..."okay" is a good descriptive...I was a bit underwhelmed...

 

[skimom2]

..."okay" is a good descriptive...I was a bit underwhelmed...

Exactly. Crichton is hit and miss for me. When he's on (for me), I love his writing. When he's not...well, he's never worse than 'okay', which is more than I can say for other authors I've read

 

[Blake]

I read the transcript of King's speech that he gave in 1986 to the Banned Book thing. I don't know if the video that they made is available on YouTube. He made a good point, about that book banned at the school, I think it was called 'Worker' about Steelworkers and no student had borrowed the book until that first student and then after the banning the book was borrowed 63 times. I also read the 1983 interview in the magazine with Eric Norden. I think I had read it before. Mr. King had strep throat so he had to keep his fluid intact up.

 

[AchtungBaby]

Need a palette cleanser after my reread of The Tommyknockers....going with Where the Red Fern Grows.