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[Combichristoffersen]

Completely forgot about that. The Cuckoo is sublime.

Also, which one had the serial killer convention?

Can't remember which one that was, sadly. But the Corinthian is such a bad dude :lol

 

[Narag]

Or simply naked men bathed in blood and dirt, adorning themselves with people's skins and scalps, strolling into town atop horses. I'll believe it when I see it. :lol


Completely forgot about that. The Cuckoo is sublime.

Also, which one had the serial killer convention?

The Doll's House. Sandman vol. 2.

 

[Kuraudo]

Yeah. I really like A Game of You too. It's so.. different. It's like a mindfuck horror fairytale on acid. And Martin Tenbones is boss.

Probably my favourite alongside Brief Lives.

Fantastic series. Rereading it myself at the moment. Just cleared up Dream Country.

 

[phisheep]

Got as far as half-way through the first volume of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', which I have being trying to get around to for years.

I imagine it is pretty dry reading if done from scratch, but if you know only a teensy bit of background it is fascinating. Slow reading, because I keep having to stop to look things up.

 

[tmarques]

Glad I got over my prejudice. Enjoying it tremendously.

 

[Maklershed]

Salazar - Amazon has the NYRB Complete Collection. Only $2k or so.

Glad I got over my prejudice. Enjoying it tremendously.

I see what you did there.

 

[kaskade]

Wow, I think I need to read that Blood Meridian book.

 

[T.M. MacReady]

Just finished:

Just started:

 

[peakish]

Just finished Let the Right One In.

Now I really need to see the movie.

Not sure what I'll start with now ... but I really need to get hold of some more horror in the same style soon. Any suggestions?

 

[Salazar]

Salazar - Amazon has the NYRB Complete Collection. Only $2k or so.

I am in a financial position to afford it, but the indulgence would do something savage and irreparable to my soul. I will continue to pick them up one by one.

Got as far as half-way through the first volume of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', which I have being trying to get around to for years.

Tom Holland's Rubicon is the book you need. In addition to Gibbon, I mean.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Not sure what I'll start with now ... but I really need to get hold of some more horror in the same style soon. Any suggestions?

Not strictly the same, but you could try the British translation of 'Människohamn' by the same author, whenever it's out (late 2010 or early 2011 according to Wikipedia). Unless you're fluent in Swedish and can read it in its original language

 

[jetles]

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Very Good Book So Far

 

[itsinmyveins]

Still reading It by Stephen King -- almost 600 pages in and there's still 700 more to go.

 

[peakish]

Not strictly the same, but you could try the British translation of 'Människohamn' by the same author, whenever it's out (late 2010 or early 2011 according to Wikipedia). Unless you're fluent in Swedish and can read it in its original language

Yeah, I am swedish Was thinking about picking up some more of his books, might just start with that one!

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Yeah, I am swedish Was thinking about picking up some more of his books, might just start with that one!

Ah, good! Pick up Människohamn and Pappersväggar then. Handteringen av Odöda is.. not bad, but a bit eh. A bit boring, really. Lilla Stjärna is pretty decent too, although it's not really supernatural horror, it's.. well.. you should just read up on it, really :lol

 

[SyNapSe]

Fever Dream by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (my favorite authors)

Deserve more posts
Just finishing up Riptide. Really strong authors compared to others in the genre.

 

[Dresden]

Deserve more posts
Just finishing up Riptide. Really strong authors compared to others in the genre.

I liked their books before they nudged themselves into the superhero genre with Pendergast.

 

[SyNapSe]

I liked their books before they nudged themselves into the superhero genre with Pendergast.

Fair enough, I only read the first 3 or so books of that series. Then I quit and since then I've just randomly ran into some of their solo/other books like Mount Dragon, etc. Who else would you recommend in that same vein of writing?

 

[Dresden]

Fair enough, I only read the first 3 or so books of that series. Then I quit and since then I've just randomly ran into some of their solo/other books like Mount Dragon, etc. Who else would you recommend in that same vein of writing?

Not sure about other authors, but I thought Ice Limit was the best book they ever did. Their one-shot novels are usually strong--but avoid the ones where Preston writes by himself. Blasphemy was just awful, awful stuff.

Relic was also quite good--it's a Pendergast novel without all the superhuman junk.

 

[sazabirules]

I just started reading

and I'll start The Long Ships next. Last month's thread convinced me to buy it.

 

[DanDeschain]

 

[peakish]

Ah, good! Pick up Människohamn and Pappersväggar then. Handteringen av Odöda is.. not bad, but a bit eh. A bit boring, really. Lilla Stjärna is pretty decent too, although it's not really supernatural horror, it's.. well.. you should just read up on it, really :lol

Will do, thanks for the impressions!

 

[Salazar]

and I'll start The Long Ships next. Last month's thread convinced me to buy it.

:lol The army of Gaffers who want to be Vikings will grow.

 

[eznark]

Finished A Clash of Kings. Found it was a mirror of the first. Where that one started slow and grew on me, this one fizzled towards the last third. The interesting stories aren't being told (is there a Robb chapter in the last 500 pages?) and he is belaboring the mundane. I have no real desire to continue on the Feast for Crows, but I bought it and have read 1600 pages so far, another 770 won't kill me. It's so absurdly bloated when I look back on reading the two books back to back like that. A really good editor would have made one of the best fantasy novels of all time out of those first two tomes. On the whole I enjoyed Clash of Kings more than Game of Thrones, but CoK ended with such a whimper that it left a sour impression.

On to A Feast for Crows...and at this point I kind of hope Martin is done...or better yet an editor saves his future works.

edit: fuck. apparently I need to read two more. Fine, Storm of Swords here I come. God damn it. Of course it is 1000+ pages. Obviously.

 

[eznark]

FFS, if you don't like it, stop reading. Ever heard of sunk costs?

I didn't say I don't like it. I said I have no desire to keep reading it. I really do like the individual threads and I want to see humanity coalesce to ward off evil in the end, I just think it's bloated and a bit of a chore.

Huh, no Robb chapters in this entire book?

 

[sazabirules]

I didn't say I don't like it. I said I have no desire to keep reading it. I really do like the individual threads and I want to see humanity coalesce to ward off evil in the end, I just think it's bloated and a bit of a chore.

Huh, no Robb chapters in this entire book?

Robb never had a POV as far as I remember.

 

[eznark]

Well, those sound basically the same to me, but whatever. :lol

I love the Brewers more than just about anything AND I have zero desire to watch their games anymore this year. However, I still drive 14 total hours two or three times a month to watch them play and never miss a minute of any game via broadcast.

Robb never had a POV as far as I remember.

Weird, you're right. Strange that he is has become the only character I like anymore.

 

[LocoMrPollock]

I love the Brewers more than just about anything AND I have zero desire to watch their games anymore this year. However, I still drive 14 total hours two or three times a month to watch them play and never miss a minute of any game via broadcast.

The fuck? You're a weird buckaroo.

 

[eznark]

The fuck? You're a weird buckaroo.

1981 and 2008 made it aaaaaaaaaall worth it.

 

[McFlame]

Only just started this one, but i'm quite enjoying it.

 

[Salazar]

Squadron Supreme.

I'm waiting for The Walking Dead to arrive in the mail. This is pretty good in the meantime.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Pretty good stuff so far.

 

[Strampas]

I've had "The hero with a thousand faces" for over a year. I was thinking about start reading it too.

 

[Jenga]

:lol The army of Gaffers who want to be Vikings will grow.

I finished it a few days ago. Really entertaining read. I'd recommend it to anyone, especially if they liked the Odyssey

 

[afternoon delight]

If you guys enjoy Hero of a Thousand Faces and have any interest in writing whatsoever, a student of his wrote a book in the same vein. Vivid and easy to digest. They're both great reads and assets. And if you're into GAF jerk mode, Christopher Nolan recommends it!

 

[Xater]

Ok I finished "The Fall of Hyperion" today. It was an enjoyable read but Dan Simmons really has a problem with unfolding most of the secrets on the last pages of his book. It's probably not as bad as in "Hyperion" but still present.

Now I am going to start reading this:



Which is just the German translation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Did not see a point of getting it in English because that's a translation as well.

 

[The Chef]

Just finished:

Just started.

 

[ngower]

I've been reading it for about two months now (a page here and there when I can)...

I do enjoy it quite a bit but I never want to sit down and open it up, it just tags alongside me to the DMV, doctor, barber, etc.

Hoping to open and finish this before I move in a little over a week.

 

[borghe]

just finished Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Really loved it, considering it's the first novel I've read in decades that wasn't written by J. K Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, or set in the Star Wars universe (not a fast reader, and thus get bored quickly). Trying to figure out if I want to go onto the next book in the millennium trilogy or if I want to head somewhere different. any recommendations for fiction in a similar direction/style or am I just best to continue onto Played With Fire?

 

[tmarques]

I've been reading it for about two months now (a page here and there when I can)...

Two months? I read it in an afternoon, literally couldn't put it down. Very different from the movie.

 

[tmarques]

May I recommend a very, very short horror story I just read? "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It's public domain, so you can get it free courtesy of the Gutenberg Project -

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm

Brilliant. Very Edgar Allan Poe. And even more disturbing when you discover why the author wrote -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wallpaper

 

[Maklershed]

Does anyone know of a place that lists best sellers of books by authors more on the level of Pynchon and Chabon and less of the books that are movie tie-ins, about teen vampires, or the latest release from some crazy neo-con?

 

[toastyToast]

It's taking me an incredibly long time to get through this book. I'm about half way now and it's really coming together.

 

[blazinglord]

Started reading on recommendation, very good.

A philosophical argument by a physicist endorsing agnosticism.

 

[Raistlin]

 

[Lorr]

So I'm planning on reading 2001, 2010, and 2061 soon and I was curious if it was worth checking out 3001 too. I keep seeing mixed reviews for it.

 

[eznark]

Out of curiosity, what is considered to be the best of the four Martin novels?

 

[bumbillbee]

Finished The Long Ships yesterday. Fucking awesome. Thanks so much for recommending it, book-GAF. I hadn't had so much fun reading a book in a while.

 

[Dresden]

Out of curiosity, what is considered to be the best of the four Martin novels?

Storm of Swords.

But honestly, if you didn't enjoy reading the first two, the third one won't change your mind.

 

[ngower]

Two months? I read it in an afternoon, literally couldn't put it down. Very different from the movie.

Ha, ya it's a quick read. I'm always doing something so it's very hard to just sit and read without an objective like school or something. I do really enjoy it and in fact Truman Capote writes just as I'd like to, but the act of reading, irregardless of by whom or about what, is tricky for me. Far too often my mind wanders while I'm reading so I end up having to re-read. It's quite frustrating.