What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (30 Viewers)

[rettucs]

reading this. I never read any Clive Barker before though often intended giving it a go. This one isn't terribly good at all. It was sufficiently ok to keep me interested for a while but now I'm getting bored. I'll stick with it for another bit in the hope something epic happens.

 

[jonah]

I love Clive Barrrrrrker! Though, I haven't read that one.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I finished Creation eventually, it's a great read, although it kinda just went on for a good while and then stopped. I was hoping for a grand finale.

I started Inland by Gerald Murnane but gave it up after about 30 pages. Rubbish. And I had such high hopes.

I've just started Fathers & Crows by William Vollmann and I think it'll probably be the best thing ever.

i have The Ice Shirt at home waiting to read. i'm a little bit daunted by this series though

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

The ice shirt is an easy read and quite short too. Also very good. Fathers And Crows is almost 1000 pages of small writing. I don't think he written several of them yet.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I think 4 of the 7 have been written

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I bought my christmas reading material yesterday

I love Preacher!

 

[jonah]

I love Preacher!

I've been meaning to read it for years, and have just finished volume 1 and can't stop! Its so amazing.

When I bought it in Sub City the other day, these two guys came up behind me and were like "Oh God, that's so good, it'll totally get you into comics". I felt like punching them in the face.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I've been meaning to read it for years, and have just finished volume 1 and can't stop! Its so amazing.

I re-read it last year start to finish and it was still as brilliant as I remembered. I love the sense of humour throughout it, definitely a cut above most of the dreck that Marvel and DC were peddling.

When I bought it in Sub City the other day, these two guys came up behind me and were like "Oh God, that's so good, it'll totally get you into comics". I felt like punching them in the face.

Who knows, you might get into music and films next!

 

[jonah]

I re-read it last year start to finish and it was still as brilliant as I remembered. I love the sense of humour throughout it, definitely a cut above most of the dreck that Marvel and DC were peddling.



Who knows, you might get into music and films next!

Yep, totally. I've just read now they're making a tv series? AMC, so Mad Men and Breaking Bad style, could actually be ok!

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

The Walking Dead turned out well but it's hard to imagine them being as filthy with the humour as in the comic. Finger crossed it works!

 

[george mcfly]

reading this. I never read any Clive Barker before though often intended giving it a go. This one isn't terribly good at all. It was sufficiently ok to keep me interested for a while but now I'm getting bored. I'll stick with it for another bit in the hope something epic happens.

Put it down and pick up Weaveworld. That's his epic

 

[george mcfly]

I got this from my sis

Didn't realise how amazing this was going to be. Photographs from the set of Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York & Christine. Stuff like this

Kurt Russell on the set of The Fog

If you're a Carpenter fan it's essential

 

[jonah]

travelling a lot over the next few weeks, so have a new book bundle to start off my 25 new books in 2015 (pretty modest, but i hate not reaching it if i chose 50) challenge:

Not sure which I'll start with yet

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I set my challenge to 40 - maybe the pressure might motivate me to get off the internet

 

[Lili Marlene]

I followed suit since 52 almost killed me last year, but I did it!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Very impressive

 

[Lili Marlene]

Some frantic reading of tiny books on the last 2 days, let me tell you.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I've got 3 books on the go. Woohoo!


The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham, about the lives of two brothers in New York, one of whom has had some kind of religious/extra-terrestrial encounter. The other one is a junkie musician.


Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford. The one that David Lynch’s film is based on.


Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer. 700+ page book set in Ancient Egypt. Full of buggery and death.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

 

[Jim Daniels]

I'm a fairly slow reader and would be lucky to get through 15-18 books in a year.
I find when I hurry through a book that I just don't get as much out of it - like devouring a dinner without really tasting it. I do need to spend more actual time reading though and get off the bloody Internet.

I'm still on Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood - having started it over Christmas. It's great - part 2 of the MaddAddam trilogy.