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Post by Mark Sieber on Dec 17, 2018 11:06:21 GMT
I'm taking a quick break from my rereading venture and am on Harlan Ellison's Web of the City. This is one of only two novels he published. I've never gotten around to this gritty story of juvenile delinquent gang violence before. This was Harlan's first book publication, and the title was changed to Rumble. I'm reading the 2013 Hard Case Crime reprint.
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Post by cinderellaman on Dec 17, 2018 16:25:32 GMT
I'm trapped in reading hell at the moment - I'm half way through The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow, which is brilliant, but for some reason I put down and I can't explain why I haven't picked it up again, and I'm halfway through Lee Child's Past Tense... which is... awful.
I've added two massive books to my Christmas list -
TED Klein's The Ceremonies - PS PUB Blackwater - Michael McDowell - Valencourt hardcover
I've been dying to read both of these since part of my heart somewhere about six months ago realized I miss the genre...
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Post by pinheadspawn on Dec 17, 2018 18:02:17 GMT
Creature by Hunter Shea
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Post by thelibrarian on Dec 19, 2018 0:43:30 GMT
Ok so Mark burned Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream for me to listen to on my commute. We had a conversation about that story at a party the other night. I have never read it. They took pity on my ignorance. It was short enough to finish on my way to and from work today, in fact it ended as I pulled into the driveway. I sat there a few minutes...stunned. The audio includes sound effects, the first of which nearly drove me off the road it was so unexpected. Screeching torture. Terrifying. Ellison's story stuck me in it's use of language as poetry. Otherwise I am listening to Anne Tyler's, A Spool of Blue Thread and reading McCammon's, The Queen of Bedlam.
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Post by pinheadspawn on Dec 20, 2018 0:14:34 GMT
Ok so Mark burned Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream for me to listen to on my commute. We had a conversation about that story at a party the other night. I have never read it. They took pity on my ignorance. It was short enough to finish on my way to and from work today, in fact it ended as I pulled into the driveway. I sat there a few minutes...stunned. The audio includes sound effects, the first of which nearly drove me off the road it was so unexpected. Screeching torture. Terrifying. Ellison's story stuck me in it's use of language as poetry. Otherwise I am listening to Anne Tyler's, A Spool of Blue Thread and reading McCammon's, The Queen of Bedlam. I love all of the Matt Corbett books Jason
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Post by Mark Sieber on Dec 20, 2018 8:28:05 GMT
I can't wait for Cardinal Black.
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Post by Mark Sieber on Dec 22, 2018 18:07:44 GMT
I started a reread of Heinlein's Hugo-winning Double Star last night. It's one of his better ones. An actor is hired to stand in for a political leader after an assassination. He is needed to complete some crucial negotiations. After a successful completion of the job, the actor thinks he can return to his normal life.
It kind of makes you wonder if this sort of thing has ever really happened. We've heard the theories of Paul McCartney being killed and how a stand-in was brought in to keep the money flowing. I don't really believe that, but on the other hand, little would surprise me these days.
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Post by pinheadspawn on Dec 22, 2018 22:32:50 GMT
I can't wait for Cardinal Black. Same here! I always get excited for new McCammon stuff. One of the best writers alive, regardless of genre Jason
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Post by Mark Sieber on Dec 31, 2018 18:29:30 GMT
Now I'm reading The Individualist, by one of my all-time favorite songwriter-musicians, the misunderstood and underappreciated Todd Rundgren.
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Post by thelibrarian on Jan 1, 2019 1:12:24 GMT
Halcyon by Rio Youers
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Post by adamjames on Mar 14, 2019 6:25:09 GMT
I’m currently in the middle of the Hyperion Cantos, hit a road bump of disinterest about a hundred pages into Endymion. That can be attributed to me trying to learn photoshop, though.
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Post by pinheadspawn on Mar 15, 2019 3:26:52 GMT
Hole in the World by Brian Keene
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Post by cinderellaman on Mar 15, 2019 13:56:17 GMT
I can't believe I still haven't been able to start those two I was so excited about at Christmas... Most of this year has been taken up with proof reading and editing stuff, so when I look at what I've been reading it's been.. me. Which is frankly depressing hah.
I did just take delivery of a hardcover I'm excited about, Stephen Lawhead's second Eirlandia novel - I love me some celtic fantasy... and in terms of genre, I'm struggling manfully with Peter James's Absolute Truth, which is kinda horror... but... not really.
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Post by Mark Sieber on Mar 15, 2019 15:08:02 GMT
I've continued to find great joy in rereading books I loved in the past. I am about to begin Bill Pronzini's Masques.
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Post by goathunter on Mar 17, 2019 0:48:40 GMT
Most of my reading the past few years has been Silver Age and Bronze Age Superman-related comics. I'm having a blast reading them.
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