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Been thinking about going to see The Painted Bird but wondering exactly how traumatising it’s going to be.

Thought about The Shining obviously but then thought that we'd have to watch the film afterwards and it's 18s. Having said that ... 18 certificates are clearly not what they used to be and if it was released today it would be probably be 15 or 16. Wasn't it the case once that every horror film...

A lot of his books are pretty long-winded as far as I remember. Which brings me to this: My 14 year old has just started reading SK. Been through Carrie and Salem's Lot. What next? I think both The Stand and IT are way too long. I'm thinking either Pet Semetary or Needful Things. What say ye? I...

So I heard ... will probably give it a whirl after I've finished the book.

Like the look of the metal book. Thanks for the heads up.

Reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and enjoying it. It’s the sort of blockbusting doorstopping pageturner I need right now. And there’s plenty of plague.

I read that last year. Not going to re-read.

My view on it would be that she's earned the right to do whatever the fuck she wants.

I started reading some contemporary spy novels by Mick Herron based on an interview with him in the paper last week and you know what? They're great. Very Le Carre. Very Graham Greene.

Sargasso Sea ..... the obvious one I suppose, right?

Funnily enough ... that's who I'm reading now.

I would say yes, it is worth it. But its certainly pretty bleak stuff.

This. Had never heard of her or this novel but picked it up because I liked the cover and it had recommendations from JG Ballard and Doris Lessing. Also because it's short. I'm with MDR on this one these days. Anyway, it's a very bizarre and somewhat unsettling novel about mental disintegration...

"Eleanor Vance was thirty-two years old when she came to Hill House. The only person in the world she genuinely hated, now that her mother was dead, was her sister." Shirley Jackson, Haunting Of Hill House, p. 6. I rest my case.

I've been on a Shirley Jackson buzz recently and all the ones I've read (Hill House, Castle, Hangsaman) have all been excellent.

Two-thirds of the way through this and Jaysus its become a bit of a slog. I hate not finishing novels so I'll probably stick with it but now really wishing I was reading something else.

I have a lot of time for Mark Fisher but it can be a bit hard going sometimes all right if you are not up on all the reference points. That dark age technology book looks good.

Been meaning to read Haunting ever since Stephen Kings ravings about it in his book, Danse Macabre, which also introduced me to Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury and all sorts of other cool stuff.

I read Lincoln In The Bardon a while ago because my sis in law gave me a copy. I admired it but didn't like it much. I've become obsessed with this 1930s spy thriller writer called Eric Ambler recently. Read three in a row and they are all brilliant. Also digging The Flamethrowers by Rachel...

+1 for Rings Of Saturn. I found Auserlitz a bit of a slog. Anyone read any of the others?