What Are You Reading?

[skimom2]

Great, I hope you share a few quotes in Book Quotes: King And Beyond.
I like Atwood but haven't heard of this title; it's now on my radar. Thanks.

It's a book of "fictional essays." Short, mostly pointed observations. I'll hunt up that thread, but until then this is one of my favorites: "I have decided to encourage the young. Once I wouldn't have done this, but now I have nothing to lose. The young are not my rivals. Fish are not the rivals of stones."

 

[Doc Creed]

It's a book of "fictional essays." Short, mostly pointed observations. I'll hunt up that thread, but until then this is one of my favorites: "I have decided to encourage the young. Once I wouldn't have done this, but now I have nothing to lose. The young are not my rivals. Fish are not the rivals of stones."

What a perfect line. She is really unequaled in provocative, beautifully bald quotes. Here is one of hers that I like:
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

 

[Arcadevere]

i'm done re-reading Cell. i'm choosing yesterday between Aristotle and Dante Discovers the secret of the universe (Benjamin Saenz), The Associate (John Grisham), or will start at School for Good and Evil trilogy.

I ended up picking Bourne Identity again and choose to play Dying Light in my laptop yesterday

 

[The Nameless]

While the board was closed over the weekend I finished finders keepers. It took me a long time, sometimes not reading for weeks, sometimes a page or 2 here and there, and I nearly quit. The only characters I liked were Bill and Holly, maybe Tina too. At half way through I really didn't like the book at all, but it picked up as the attention focused on Bill and Holly (one of King's better characters). I still feel that overall finders keepers was way below par, Mr Mercedes was miles better.

Anyway, now I've started lightning by Dean Koontz. It is my first Koontz novel and only my 2nd non Stephen King novel (after the Martian)

 

[GNTLGNT]

While the board was closed over the weekend I finished finders keepers. It took me a long time, sometimes not reading for weeks, sometimes a page or 2 here and there, and I nearly quit. The only characters I liked were Bill and Holly, maybe Tina too. At half way through I really didn't like the book at all, but it picked up as the attention focused on Bill and Holly (one of King's better characters). I still feel that overall finders keepers was way below par, Mr Mercedes was miles better.

Anyway, now I've started lightning by Dean Koontz. It is my first Koontz novel and only my 2nd non Stephen King novel (after the Martian)

....not a bad one to start with....kind of a neat twist to a common trope....

 

[GNTLGNT]

....thanks to Linda, I'm now re-reading "The Devil's Wine"....years ago, I stupidly got rid of mine and she was kind enough to send me another....I'm not much of a poetry aficionado, but a number of these are quite intriguing.....

....first place I ever saw the truncated version of Steve's "Dark Man".....

 

[skimom2]

Michael McDowell ' s The Elementals. I got it at a secondhand shop last summer, and finally got to it in my pile yesterday. What a fun book! I read almost all of it yesterday, just a little bit left

Unfortunately, because it's the original PB printing, the pages are pretty loose--some are even starting to come out. Anyone had any luck repairing these old books? I know I'm going to want to read it again.

 

[Grant87]

I finished 20th Century Ghosts a couple days ago. Really solid collection. Some of my favorites were "20th Century Ghost", "Pop Art", and "Last Breath". I'm really looking forward to reading Joe's other works now.

Last night, I started on Richard Chizmar's collection, A Long December. If the first four stories are any indication, this is going to be a great collection.

 

[Doc Creed]

I finished 20th Century Ghosts a couple days ago. Really solid collection. Some of my favorites were "20th Century Ghost", "Pop Art", and "Last Breath". I'm really looking forward to reading Joe's other works now.

Last night, I started on Richard Chizmar's collection, A Long December. If the first four stories are any indication, this is going to be a great collection.

In your Stephen King chronology when will you start reading Pet Sematary and Christine?

 

[Grant87]

In your Stephen King chronology when will you start reading Pet Sematary and Christine?

Christine will be up next after A Long December, most likely.

 

[Kreig-Haus]

Let me start with a qualifier; I enjoy reading a great deal of different types of fiction; be it serious 'meat and potato' faction/fiction or fiction that is more sugar fun oriented, fun like candy that fizzles on your tongue, then is followed with a pop eye candy smoke and chased with a ginger ale soda and a bag of chips after, hmmm. What I am currently reading is a mix of both; the latter, pure unrestricted Milieu fun -tapping the younger side of one, that will have to be balanced out after though...something like Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep' or Stephen King's 'Stand' when I am done, or something similar.

Currently, for serious 'meat and potatoes' I am reading Stephen King's 'On writing: A Memoir of the Craft'. I am enjoying King's Memoir, the book functioning as portal into his past and a window into his mind and feel guilty when I am not reading it; his writing about writing is mandatory reading, in my mind, for any aspiring writer.

As per the sugary candy, soda and chips fun escapism...of 'Salvage Marines' (a study, of sorts, while reading the aforementioned writing craft book),...I find the battle scenes and some of the original ideas in it, entertaining...sort of like an adult re-watching old star trek episodes, albeit the two separate space opera milieus are universes apart, the Necrospace series is much more violent; ie, here's a short passage that I like:

"Samuel whirled the heavy gun around even as he prayed that the previous operator had chambered the belt fed rounds. His luck held as he squeezed the trigger and the heavy gun belched a salvo of high velocity rounds tearing his adversary to pieces. Samuel then turned the gun on the handful of troopers who had survived Ben’s fusillade and the machine gun turned them into bloody pulp. Without pausing to release the trigger, Samuel brought the gun up and strafed the adjacent building occupied by the Helion troopers and elites. He found that he was screaming as the rounds blew apart one of the elites and several of the troopers before the belt ended and the gun clicked empty once more. Both Samuel and Ben dove for cover as they scrambled to reload their own weapons."

Argo, Sean-Michael. Salvage Marines (Necrospace Book 1) (Kindle Locations 1715-1718). Severed Press. Kindle Edition.

Keeping in mind the escapism nature of the book, I only have one criticism: the book could have been edited one more time, for small mistakes (notice the missing indefinite article in the passage quoted above).
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[Terry B]

Just started to re-read the Dark Tower series. Been a long time and enjoying it very much.

 

[CrimsonKingAH]

I have recently started reading Joe Hill's work. I read Horns & The Fireman.. they were pretty awesome so I decided to read all his work. I just began Heart Shaped Box and have N0S4A2 waiting to be next in line.

 

[ghost19]

While the board was closed over the weekend I finished finders keepers. It took me a long time, sometimes not reading for weeks, sometimes a page or 2 here and there, and I nearly quit. The only characters I liked were Bill and Holly, maybe Tina too. At half way through I really didn't like the book at all, but it picked up as the attention focused on Bill and Holly (one of King's better characters). I still feel that overall finders keepers was way below par, Mr Mercedes was miles better.

Anyway, now I've started lightning by Dean Koontz. It is my first Koontz novel and only my 2nd non Stephen King novel (after the Martian)

Lightning was the first book I ever read by Koontz, eons ago, and it's still my favorite one by him.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Lightning was the first book I ever read by Koontz, eons ago, and it's still my favorite one by him.

...probably had to use your pointy finger to follow along with the sentences didn'tcha?.....

 

[Kreig-Haus]

I have recently started reading Joe Hill's work. I read Horns & The Fireman.. they were pretty awesome so I decided to read all his work. I just began Heart Shaped Box and have N0S4A2 waiting to be next in line.

First I heard of Joe Hill (King), look forward reading some of his material in the future. What did you like about his stories, CrimsonkingAH?

 

[GNTLGNT]

First I heard of Joe Hill (King), look forward reading some of his material in the future. What did you like about his stories, CrimsonkingAH?

...I have read them all....he takes a different path than dad, but has the same sense of humor and loves to sprinkle his pop's "stuff" throughout his writing....read and ye shall see...

 

[muskrat]

Marvel Epic Collection: Silver Surfer, When Calls Galactus.

Give it up. Fall to thy knees and repent! Beg for forgiveness! A Cosmic GOD has set up shop atop a New York skyscraper, intent upon draining our world of life. It's over, kids. Even the fabled Fantastic Four are powerless against this all-powerful, all hungry being. He hath sent forth His Herald to announce this dark prophecy--a chrome Yul Brynner on a flying silver boogie board.

Stan and Jack at their peak. This trade collects the Surfer's earliest appearances, from the FF and Tales to Astonish (Hulk episodes). Kirby at full-on Cosmic Crackle Mode, smack dab in the middle of the psychedelic psixties!

If you can't dig it yer done for.

 

[skimom2]

On to McDowell ' s COLD MOON OVER BABYLON. Another fine weird Gothic As soon as I finish this one (tomorrow-lol), I have THE AMULET to read. Then I have to start trolling Thriftbooks for more McDowell .

 

[CYRUS]

SUBTERANEAN by James Rollins. I highly recommend him.