I am reading Bazaar of Bad Dreams - it's amazing. I'm in the middle of UR right now and it's so perfect! Book lovers dream/nightmare!
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I am reading Bazaar of Bad Dreams - it's amazing. I'm in the middle of UR right now and it's so perfect! Book lovers dream/nightmare!
Well, they (EFFA BEE EYE) did find Cry Baby (Tom) Brady's missing shirt...........have they found him yet?......
Finished Gwendy's Button Box last night. Really cool story, and a quick read. I only wish it had been longer. I wanted more!
Now I'm having trouble deciding what to read next. I've narrowed it down to Christine, Station Eleven, The City of Mirrors, 20th Century Ghosts, or Richard Chizmar's colection, A Long December. What do you guys think?
Now I'm having trouble deciding what to read next. I've narrowed it down to Christine, Station Eleven, The City of Mirrors, 20th Century Ghosts, or Richard Chizmar's colection, A Long December. What do you guys think?
I have this one waiting for me too.
...20th Century Ghosts is prime stuff....
Getting ready to return to Discworld with Carpe Jugulum. Yes, it has vampires. 
I have a review book to finish, but I'll probably end up reading Gwendy's Button Box first. I only have it until Tuesday (1 week checkout).
Line of Succession by Brian Garfield
Over the last couple of months I've read American Gods on the recommendation of a co-worker and finished up the Dark Tower series (might have been others, I dunno; I was focused on those four books particularly). Gaiman's book featured an marvelous central story, but I felt like it would have been so much better if it had been written by anybody but him. The sex scenes and action sequences, particularly, while descriptive, just feel boring, which shouldn't be possible. It feels, to me, like he was struggling to stay awake while writing those and most other parts of the book. As for the Dark Tower...I feel pretty hollow after that ending. Very mixed emotions there to the point that it's making me reconsider if I still like the series as whole. In any event, I'm now reading Run Away, Bruce Springsteen's autobiography.
Currently ready Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts. 4 stories in so far. "Pop Art" was one of the weirdest, yet most heartfelt, stories I've ever read.
....is this the one with the "sucks canal water" boom-chick-a-wow-wow scene?......
....that's the not the only one of that type contained within.....
About halfway through Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund. It's fanfic on an epic scale, giving an entire backstory and parallel story to, um, Ahab's wife. (She rates two paragraphs in Moby Dick.) I'm surprised that I'm loving this book, since I never made it through that Dick book. Used the Cliffs notes, I did...and I only did that twice. Ever.
Also just finished SK's End of Watch and am about to start Gwendy's Button Box.
Also just finished SK's End of Watch and am about to start Gwendy's Button Box.
Naslund is from Alabama. (I'm sure you are aware of this.) I've read only one of her novels, Four Spirits. I remember favorable reviews of Ahab's Wife but never ventured into more of her work. I made it about half way into Moby Dick, too, but I faltered. I stopped not because it was a challenge but because it was so dark and depressing. I'm curious about Ahab's Wife but have no immediate desire to read it.
I've been reading Hunt for the Red October since last week.
I'm about done with it. Book is pretty boring I'm more used to Executive Orders and half of the Campus novels
I'm about done with it. Book is pretty boring I'm more used to Executive Orders and half of the Campus novels
If I knew where she's from, I'd forgotten it. Interesting. This is my first of her novels, and I'm reading it slowly--savoring it, really, instead of zipping through it as I usually do an SK novel. I felt the same as you about Moby Dick: it was dark and depressing, plus the technical descriptions of the minutia of sailing and whaling bored me. Ahab's Wife is far from dark, although it's sad in places. Overall (so far), I'm finding it fiercely hopeful, poetic, and slightly mystical. Even the technical descriptions of lighthouse lenses, harpoons, and galleys are downright entertaining.
Before Watchmen: Minutemen
by Darwyn Cooke
First half of a double trade PB collecting the Minutemen series of the Watchmen prequel event DC did a couple years back. At the time of its release I only collected the Rorschach issues--which were good, yeah, but I wasn't really impressed. Didn't bother with the rest. But since then I've heard good things about The Minutemen, and with this new Doomsday Clock book on the horizon (merging the official DC universe with that of the Watchmen!?!), I figured now was a good time to check it out.
Whoa...this is killer. I'm enjoying the hell out of it so far. Darwyn Cooke's story hits the subject matter spot-on. And his art, ye GODS! He had such a clean, uncluttered style, perfectly fusing a classic comic aesthetic with gritty, noir sensibilities. But it's a bittersweet pleasure, to be sure, considering Cooke passed away last year.
Damn, I miss ya, Darwyn.
Anyhoo, it's top rack stuff, kids. For anyone who digs Watchmen, and wanted to know more about their golden age predecessors, The Minutemen.
(The second half collects the Cooke-scripted Silk Spectre series, featuring some dynamite art from Amanda Conner--looks great. If it's half as good as Minutemen I may end up buying the whole shebang. I don't care if Alan Moore puts a curse on me.)
by Darwyn Cooke
First half of a double trade PB collecting the Minutemen series of the Watchmen prequel event DC did a couple years back. At the time of its release I only collected the Rorschach issues--which were good, yeah, but I wasn't really impressed. Didn't bother with the rest. But since then I've heard good things about The Minutemen, and with this new Doomsday Clock book on the horizon (merging the official DC universe with that of the Watchmen!?!), I figured now was a good time to check it out.
Whoa...this is killer. I'm enjoying the hell out of it so far. Darwyn Cooke's story hits the subject matter spot-on. And his art, ye GODS! He had such a clean, uncluttered style, perfectly fusing a classic comic aesthetic with gritty, noir sensibilities. But it's a bittersweet pleasure, to be sure, considering Cooke passed away last year.
Damn, I miss ya, Darwyn.
Anyhoo, it's top rack stuff, kids. For anyone who digs Watchmen, and wanted to know more about their golden age predecessors, The Minutemen.
(The second half collects the Cooke-scripted Silk Spectre series, featuring some dynamite art from Amanda Conner--looks great. If it's half as good as Minutemen I may end up buying the whole shebang. I don't care if Alan Moore puts a curse on me.)
LOL! No. More of a 'Big Chill' situation. This one isn't a bad book, but Gwendy is tempting me....is this the one with the "sucks canal water" boom-chick-a-wow-wow scene?......
You've persuaded me, lol. I'll keep an eye out for a second hand copy.
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