Just finished rereading more H.P.Lovecraft -- good for a short, quick, interesting diversion -- like Poe you can read them over and over again.

Now, just started "Witchcraft" by Charles Williams and "The Shadow Line" by Conrad.

Tuan Jim

Part 1: http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=117437

Part 2: http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=178558

(Edited to add links to original threads -Blade)

[OT addendum]
 

Anyone wishing to look a little more deeply into Lovecraft as a result of the above post may be interested in this this thread: <A HREF="http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117150" target="_blank">Cthulhu</a>

Just finished City of Bones by Micheal Connelly. There is a thread about this book on the front page (as of today).

Now I'm reading Dust to Dust. Pretty good so far.

-Steve

Also just finished Connelly's City of Bones. Everyone must go buy this book!

Currently I have 3 books going:

(book at home) The Immortal Game by Mark Coggins

(book in briefcase) Bones by Jan Burke

(book on tape in car) Romance by Ed McBain

Having a Jim Thompson fest:
After Dark My Sweet
The Grifters
Croppers Cabin

Next month I will be reading all the old horror classics: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Phantom of the Opera.
The world is my paper cut!

The Tiger in the Well by Phillip Pullman

I'm reading "Lolita" by Nabakov .....very good so far, though occasionally it seems like he is writing with a thesarus in hand....a lot of uncommon words.

Also, the book is making me very horny :) (not that I'm into 12 year old girls or anything)

I'm in the middle of Thunder Head by Dougles Preston & Lincoln Child. (Same guys who wrote The Relic)

Just started Brown by Richard Rodriquez.

Finished a reread of The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley. Now about half way through The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The Minority Report.

Shame the Devil
 

Shame the Devil by George P. Pelecanos. So far so good.

The Man in the High Castle by Phillip Dick

"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

http://charliegoose.homestead.com/files/goose.jpg Honk!

Dreamcatcher..then have We Were Soldiers Once and Young and Rise To Rebellion waiting for me on the shelf..

A Cold Case
 

A Cold Case by Phillip Gourevitch.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.

Next up is The Weatherman . The name of the author escapes me, but a King had some good words for the story on the back cover, so I bit.

Currently reading:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/18...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


Neil Peart (drummer of Rush) takes a cycling trip through Cameroon with four other people and describes his experiences during his journey.

I'm reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345359429/qid=1020448401/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_67_1/002-8261809-4812866">Battle Cry of Freedom</a> by James McPherson. Really good so far.

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
The Nick Adam Stories by Ernest Hemingway

Last week I read the first two Xanth books. Piers Anthony must have been going through an ugly divorce when he was writing them. Amost all the women in the cast are shrewish, conniving, or stupid.

Finished Lolita last week, was pretty good, but admittedly over my head at points - lots of french, which i don't speak, and allusions to things that I didn't get - but it was pretty good despite that.

Read Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving. I enjoyed it, though it was mostly a memoir.

Started Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie last night, looks like it will be good - I really like the way he writes. I read The Satanic Verses a few months ago and was amazed - one of the most rewarding books I've read in a while. But the one I'm reading now was his first succesful book - there was one before it that even he says wasn't very good, though I'll probably read it anyway.

Jaqueline Ess: Her will and testament (short story)

Re-reading it, really. In my opinion one of the best examples of short 'Horror' written.

Read 'Once' by James Herbert. Hated it.

Re-reading Don DeLillo's White Noise and Catch 22.

As if I couldn't get enough sardonic pessimism from these boards. :D

The Infinite Plan, by Isabel Allende

The World According to Garp. This is the third John Irving book I've read; his characters are incredibly shallow, but somehow he makes it work.

K-PAX II by Gene Brewer.

Not a great deal to it but an amusing, easy read nonetheless.

<small>[It says that he is spinning this out into a trilogy which, given the relative brevity of the first two, suggests that in effect they are dividing one reasonable size book into three pretty slim ones! Never mind the quality; feel the width]</small>:)

Shelters of Stone I just picked this one up.

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

I'm reading Nabokov's Lolita and I'm rather ambivalent at this point. I love his cryptic allusions and descriptions, but Humbert Humbert is making my stomach heave. The whole subject is just revolting. I plan on finishing it though.

I loved the book and the film; especially Jim's cigarette rationing "system"!

Looks like some of us are on a "classics" binge at the moment!

I'm currently 90% of the way through Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

It isn't at all what I expected. Very dry, ironic writing. Fun to witness Conrad putting all those foolish thoughts in so many of his characters' heads!

If I ever knew, I'd forgotten that Conrad was a naturalised Briton: he seemed to have almost as good a grasp on the social scene of the day as did Dickens a few decades before him (TSA was published in 1907).

Just finished John Sanford's Chosen Prey. Fast paced. I always enjoy the Lucas Davenport books. Funnily enough I just can't seem to bring myself to read Sanford's other novels. I do that with McBain, too. If it doesn't involve the 87th Preceinct, I just don't want to read them.

Strange bloody quirk that, isn't it?

Just have begun reading John Connolly's The Killing Kind, a hybrid Hard boiled/ horror novel.

Anyone else read him?


I have Blood Follows, by Steven Erikson on it's way. It's a novella feauturing two characters from Memories Of Ice, the third book of the Malazan Book Of The Fallen saga. Cannot wait for it to arrive.

Have to wait until December until the fourth book in the saga , House Of Chains, is released. Dammit.

And Amazon UK has Feast For Crows as being released March 2003? Is that true? I have to wait THAT long?


Also got Rue Morgue magazine with the great Battle Royale cover.

Plenty to read just no time to do it in.

Finishing up "Nemesis", voulme 2 of Ian Kershaw's biography of Adolf Hitler...fascinating stuff

Just finished Richard Matheson's "Stir of Echoes" and have now started on Dean Koontz "From the Corner of His Eye."

Just finished:
- Philip Roth's American Pastoral -- I reread it for the first time in about five years. I'm now convinced that it's one of the best American novels of the 90s.
- Thomas Hill Schaub's American Fiction in the Cold War -- a study of the ways that American fiction from the 50s reflects the struggles of the New Left.

Now Reading:
- Don DeLillo's Underworld -- a massive novel that tryies to make sense of the last fifty years of American history. 140 pages down, 700 to go.
- Lawrence Wittner's Cold War America: From Hiroshima to Watergate -- I'm sensing a trend here. ;) This is an interesting political history that argues that Truman sold out the Old Left and that America's foreign policy has been driven almost solely by economic concerns ever since.

Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson
by Kenneth R. Timmerman

A bit dry in spots, but a pretty insightful read...

How do you like this so far? I have it, but just haven't gotten around to reading it yet...too many books, too little time! :)

Calvanism's Misrepresentation of God - Hunt

Wow. Did I actually type the word "tryies"? Oops.

So far, Underworld is impressive and enjoyable, but I haven't read enough of it yet to really comment. Having only read White Noise previously, I'm not terribly familiar with DeLillo, so I'm still feeling him out a bit. The novel is epic in scale -- I'm curious to see if he's able to keep the material under control, to pull it together. Libra is also sitting on my "to read" list, but I'm not sure if I'll get to it any time soon.

I'm deep into the first volume of Caro's Lyndon Johnson biographies - this will keep me busy for a while.

Children of Dune...tho its taking forever because i'm far too tired...