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Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:24 am
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| Almost finished "Night Watch" by Terry Pratchett. After that, I'm thinking I'll read both of Joe Hill's novels. I like his short stories and Locke & Key, and have both his novels, so here's hoping they're just as good. |
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:11 pm
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| About halfway through Lisey's Story and The Story Of Crickley Hall (only reading the latter out of obligation to the person who bought me it; I don't really rate Herbert that much). Yesterday, someone gave me a copy of The Monster Of Florence, a fascinating true story about the search for "Il Mostro", famously mentioned in Thomas Harris's Hannibal, and I'm flying through that right now. |
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Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:57 pm
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I'm currently reading King's UNDER THE DOME, SECRET HISTORIES by F. Paul Wilson, THE BIRTHING HOUSE by Christopher Ransom, MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES ed. by Loren Rhoads, and THE POKER CLUB by Ed Gorman.
Whew!
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Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:03 am
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Finished reading The Girl Who Played With Fire, the second book in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Not quite as good as the unbelievably dark and depraved Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but still a hell of a ride.
CANNOT WAIT for the third book. |
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Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:52 pm
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| Edward Lee's Flesh Gothic |
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Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:55 pm
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Samaritan, by Richard Price
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:05 am
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I just finished BEST SERVED COLD by Joe Abercrombie.
It's basically a medieval KILL BILL as some hard-ass chick mercenary is betrayed, left for dead and survives to wreak bloody vengeance.
It's classified as a 'fantasy' novel as it is set in a made-up world in the past, but there's nary a dragon or mage to be seen. The author himself has said that he has little time for the kind of stodgy, pompous toss that makes up a lot of fantasy literature and that he is more influenced by Scorsese films and DEADWOOD.
It's a funny, brutal 'men (and women) on a mission' revenge thriller. And it's cool as tits.
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:50 pm
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:08 pm
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Revisiting a great one.
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy |
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Sun May 02, 2010 9:52 pm
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Fordlandia, by Greg Grandin – A great study of business hubris, the necessity of adapting to other cultures, and the irony of Henry Ford valuing a world he helped to destroy.
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Mon May 10, 2010 2:32 am
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Mindhunter, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker - Good stuff by one of the guys who invented the profiling of serial killers.
I just read Greek Street vol. 1: Blood Calls for Blood, by Peter Milligan and David Gianfelice. It’s an interesting book – putting Greek myths into the middle of modern-day London – but there wasn’t enough here to get me to come back for volume 2. A shame, really, as I love mythology.
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Mon May 10, 2010 4:36 am
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| Just finished A Lower Deep by Tom Piccirilli and now I'm reading The Best of Joe R. Lansdale and checking out a book of creepy poetry by Stanley McNail titled Something Breathing. |
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Mon May 10, 2010 4:01 pm
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slowly working my way through the first Necroscope book... not too bad
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Mon May 10, 2010 4:39 pm
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| just started Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. |
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Tue May 18, 2010 3:05 am
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Had a couple of plane flights over the weekend and managed to knock down a trio of books:
1974, Red Riding Book 1, by David Peace – A truly stupendous crime novel about the north of England in the 70s, serial killers, and a corrupt society. Absolutely terrific.
Fordlandia, by Greg Grandin – An interesting study in the failure of Henry Ford to create the kind of world that he idealized in Brazil in the early part of the 20th century. Drags in places, but overall interesting.
Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill – I was disappointed by this. Some sections and scenes were good, but overall, nothing felt as new or exciting here as its clippings would have indicated.
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