What Are You Reading? Part Deux

[muskrat]

Also, a re-read of the old Swamp Thing books when Alan Moore stepped in and saved it.

Best comic ever.

You ever read any of Kurt Busiek's Astro City? Holy cats, Twofer, thems good funny books. Remember his Marvels? Painted by Alex Ross? It's just like that, but with all original characters. Jack-in-The-Box, Silver Agent, the First Family, etc. Stories about us tiny human beings trying to live in a world overrun with super freaks. I just read the first Astro City: The Dark Age arc, dealing with the grimy seventies, and it completely blew my head off.

More 50 cent box gold. And there's more down there, laddie...lots more. I'm gonna get it all.

 

[mal]

Sleeping Beauties.

 

[Baby Blue]

Sleeping Beauties.

Ditto. Duh.

 

[Tery]

Almost done with The Handmaid's Tale and then... Sleeping Beauties!

 

[Zone D Dad]

I'm about 1/2 way through All the Pretty Horses. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it. It's interesting but I don't know where it's headed at this point. It's been awhile since I've read McCarthy - he always requires some acclimation time with his writing. I go through the same thing with every new James Ellroy book.

 

[osnafrank]

Finished "Land of the Blind" by Jess Walter.

While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Spokane police detective, encounters a seemingly unstable but charming derelict. "I'd like to confess," he proclaims. But he insists on writing out his confession in longhand

Beautiful written Book but i cant shehorn it into a Category.

 

[JMR]

I am listing to Homeward bond book 5 of the Death lands. Audio with music and effects.... Someone from the Dark Tower is explain in great detail appearing on the high way. But no names are given but you know who it suppose to be. It sort of funny not sure what to listen to next... Still reading no game no life book 6. The Mangas came in so *happy claps*

 

[skimom2]

I've only read it three times so far.

Well, that was a rough estimate (lol). My daughter and I have had fun casting the movie (which exists only in our minds) this week, as she's re-reading it, too.

 

[skimom2]

Finally got back to Re-Birth (Wyndham), and I've really enjoyed it. I can only read a chapter or so each night before I conk out, so this slim book has lasted me a week (and I'm still not completely finished--lol). I have a review book to finish, but it's a snorer--a "well-off white people whining" book. I'm going to try to get the last of it and the review out of the way Sunday.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Finally got back to Re-Birth (Wyndham), and I've really enjoyed it. I can only read a chapter or so each night before I conk out, so this slim book has lasted me a week (and I'm still not completely finished--lol). I have a review book to finish, but it's a snorer--a "well-off white people whining" book. I'm going to try to get the last of it and the review out of the way Sunday.

Good to see you!

 

[Kurben]

Finally got back to Re-Birth (Wyndham), and I've really enjoyed it. I can only read a chapter or so each night before I conk out, so this slim book has lasted me a week (and I'm still not completely finished--lol). I have a review book to finish, but it's a snorer--a "well-off white people whining" book. I'm going to try to get the last of it and the review out of the way Sunday.

Great to see you again! You have been missed!

 

[Kurben]

Started Hornet Flight by Ken Follett. One of his WW2 novels. This concentrating on german occupation of Denmark and a heroine cracking codes at Bletchley Park. The big problem is that the germans seem to know where the british planes are and how do they get the info? And how to stop it? The solution had big uses in the rest of The Battle Of Britain and WW2 in general.

 

[danie]

Finished Wilde Lake, an SK-recommended book. Very good.

Started Sleeping Beauties. Nothing like struggling to hold the giant thing while reading in bed. Makes me happy.

 

[no bounce no play]

I'm 17% into Sleeping Beauties I would have rather had the book but I went with the kindle version as I remembered how difficult it was to hold Under the Dome. I had to put UTD down, not because I wanted to, but because my hands hurt from hanging onto it lol.

 

[Kurben]

Finished Wilde Lake, an SK-recommended book. Very good.

Started Sleeping Beauties. Nothing like struggling to hold the giant thing while reading in bed. Makes me happy.

I'm waiting for my copy. When it arrives i'll be happy too.

 

[Kurben]

Finished with Follett. Started The Age Of Mammals by Björn Kurten, the Finnish paleontologist. It was a while since it was written (the 70,s) but it is still standing as a good summaric overview which is all it intended to be. There has of course been newer developments, both more finds and better techniquhenes, since then but as a basic overview i think it holds up. Written intentionally with as few sciency terms as possible so everyone should be able to read it. He also has written some really good essays on paleontology in a way similar to Stephen Jay Goulds great essays on biology and evolution.

 

[recitador]

just started Lisey's Story, first time through. this week is going to be King week, in that i'm going to try and get through as many of his books that i have yet to read as possible. i think i own 7 or 8 that i haven't read, and most are not his longer ones, so i think i have a shot, after all, i'll be in florida just sort of relaxing and vacationing before the book tour stop.

 

[Doc Creed]

just started Lisey's Story, first time through

This is probably my favorite non-horror novel by him. It's a home run.

 

[Religiously_Unkind]

This is probably my favorite non-horror novel by him. It's a home run.

I thought Lisey's Story was a horror/romance, I keep hearing something about a can opener or something. I got about 34 pages in but it didn't seem like my cup of tea, I like it when Steve writes about ghouls and unnamable terrors. I'll give Lisey's Story a whirl eventually, though. Right now my TBR pile is huge; I've got Sleeping Beauties, a bunch of his short story collections, and then i'm rereading the Castle Rock books in order.

 

[Doc Creed]

I thought Lisey's Story was a horror/romance

As some have said, categorizing his books can be subjective. I would say there is romance but the rest is difficult to describe. Horror? Well, we are talking about Stephen King but it's not a classic horror novel, in my opinion. The can opener scene is not easy to forget...read it. I loved it, but some fans didn't like it precisely because it isn't horror.