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| Author: | JPOKELA [ Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:18 am ] |
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I got the wife an Ipad for her christmas gift, so the first time I got my hands on it I downloaded Tom Piccirilli's NIGHTJACK. No paper copies exist. Dunno if it's the unfamiliar format, but I am having trouble getting into it. I loved the first few pages. That was fun. |
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| Author: | JPOKELA [ Sun Dec 30, 2012 1:34 pm ] |
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There were a couple chapters where time and circumstance conspired to slow down my reading. But the story got fun again! |
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| Author: | Babaganoosh [ Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:39 am ] |
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Right now I'm reading Brian Keene's Earthworm Gods II: Deluge. REALLY liking it and it's nice to be back in that world as The Earthworm Gods is in my top favorite Keene reads. I've been in a reading slump lately and this is getting me out of it so after this I have some Shane McKenzie, Nate Southard, and Gord Rollo lined up. |
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| Author: | JPOKELA [ Sat Jan 05, 2013 5:24 pm ] |
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NIGHTJACK turned out to be one of my very favorite Pic novels. And I got em all, believe me! Great stuff! Been dipping a bit into Richard Christian Matheson's DYSTOPIA. Cool bunch of short stories. I didn't have a copy of Charlee Jacob's GUISES for a few years. Picked up a paperback copy. It's getting to be time to re-read a bunch of Charlee. |
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| Author: | dutchgorelover [ Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:22 am ] |
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Now reading : B-movie Reels by Alan Spencer. Nice story. Bloody and if you're a fan of old horrormovies , its a must. HE just released the sequal : B-movie attack. |
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| Author: | bigheadsballsack [ Tue Feb 05, 2013 5:26 pm ] |
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Just reading Carlton Mellick III's Kill Ball at the mo, a fun shortish story. Fancy reading a Lee next, but not sure what to go for. A few in the TBR pile including GAST, Shifters to name a few, i'll have a browse when I am done with Kill Ball. |
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| Author: | Babaganoosh [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:56 am ] |
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Reading James A. Moore's Deeper. Oddly enough this is my first book of his that I've read and I'm really liking it. Any suggestions of what to read next from him. Nothing too expensive though... |
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| Author: | Edward Lee [ Sun Feb 10, 2013 11:58 pm ] |
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Jim Moore's material is always a blast. I'll have to re-read something by him soon. Right now I'm reading The Peabody Heritage by August Derleth which I guess is his sequel to HPL's Dreams in the Witch-House. It's not very good but it's still great, if you know what I mean. It's from Watchers out of Time and is presented as stories that Derleth wrote based on notes and partials left by HPL. I'm not sure if I believe that but it's still old time fun, and Derleth is very good at re-capturing the atmospheric tableaux of Lovecraft. Recommended only for diehard HPL junkies! Edward Lee |
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| Author: | lthrby1 [ Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:21 pm ] |
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Took a horror break, and read Dee Snider's autobiography, as well as Peter Criss' autobiography. I am now back onto horror, and read about a quarter of Coven by Edward Lee. |
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| Author: | ronin57 [ Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:32 am ] |
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Halfway through Doctor Who and Philosophy. Not horror, I know, but sometimes ya gotta read something light. |
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| Author: | JPOKELA [ Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:40 pm ] |
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BOOK OF SOULS by Jack Ketchum. I got startled out of this cool read on page 38 by the use of "pour over" instead of the correct "pore over." Dude has got to know better. Gonna blame this one on an editor or publisher.... |
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| Author: | John Copeland [ Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:03 am ] |
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Just finished The Hot Rock by Donald Westlake, which was hilarious and now in the midst of The Complete Drive In anthology by Joe Lansdale. |
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| Author: | JPOKELA [ Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:10 pm ] |
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I finished BOOK OF SOULS. For the heck of it I looked at prices on Amazon. Very high! Went to bookfinder.com and found Camelot and Realms of Fantasy selling copies at cover price and everyone else but Jeff n' Joys selling it for a fortune! Weird......... usually Camelot is on top of re-pricing rare items. So they don't think (or know) possible rarity. |
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| Author: | JPOKELA [ Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:18 pm ] |
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Finally got a copy of THE DEAD INN edited by Shane Staley and published by Delirium in the early days. This reminds me why I used to be a fan of Shane. Great bunch of wild stories. Charlee Jacob at her best, fer instance. This collection, other publication like Lestewka's CONFESSIONS OF THE ARCHIVIST, reissues of Brian Hodge, Arnzen and Piccirilli. Great stuff! Where did that boasting, cheating, lieing schmuck Staley go wrong....... drank too much of his own kool-aid I guess. |
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| Author: | bigheadsballsack [ Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:33 am ] |
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Just finished CM III's Kill Ball, had a busy time at work so took longer than I thought about to read either Haunted House of Horrors or Slither by Mr. Lee. |
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| Author: | peteboiler [ Sun Feb 17, 2013 6:53 pm ] |
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Up to date on all of Lee's work, so am currently reading F. Paul Wilson's conclusion to the Repairman Jack series, Nightworld. Having a blast! Recently read Jack Ketchum's I'm Not Sam, and Burke's Nemesis. Bob |
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| Author: | JPOKELA [ Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:48 pm ] |
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I am a big fan of Ed Lee's SLITHER. I might be the only one! It took a bit of work to get all the various groups of people squared away in my mind. Well worth reading. Lots of fun. |
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| Author: | Demonizer [ Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:44 pm ] |
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The "Calendar of Tales" that Neil Gaiman wrote the other day as part of a multimedia Twitter art project. They're quite good flash stories: http://keepmoving.blackberry.com/deskto ... 70C215#May |
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| Author: | Edward Lee [ Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:29 pm ] |
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The "pour" instead of "pore" is definitely the editor's fault. Authors do indeed spell words wrong but it's not via ignorance it via the haste of the Muse. But hell, Ketchum's one of my best friends and I wasn't even aware of this book! Glad to hear Donald Westlake mentioned; I'd forgotten about him but man could he write prose. I'm re-reading The Shuttered Room by Dereleth which is a masterpiece of atmosphere while it also can boast THE DUMBEST ENDING perhaps of any book! It's priceless! Edward Lee |
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| Author: | ronin57 [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:35 am ] |
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Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson. "A Kaiju Thriller." Full of crazy, Godzilla style action. |
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| Author: | bigheadsballsack [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:37 am ] |
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Just read Haunted House by Edward Lee. Loved this collection some very funny tales. I loved Secret Service and The Room. What to read next??? The choices are endless... |
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| Author: | ronin57 [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:16 pm ] |
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Yamada Monotari: Demon Hunter by Richard Parks. |
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| Author: | JPOKELA [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:36 pm ] |
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The short story SECRET SERVICE is fantastic! |
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| Author: | DaFratH0 [ Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:18 am ] |
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Just finished "Unintended Consequences" .... GREAT f*cking book! |
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| Author: | Demonizer [ Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:21 am ] |
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Downloaded and read Chuck Palahniuk's short story "Phoenix" at work yesterday. I really liked it, and it's a perfect use of the Kindle Single format. |
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| Author: | chuckrios [ Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:07 am ] |
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Recently finished Mangled Meat by Edward Lee (Fucking brilliant!), Gun Machine by Warren Ellis (Another brilliant book), and Pork Pie Hat by Peter Straub (which was very 'jazzy'). -Chuck |
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| Author: | splatterhead4ever [ Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:34 pm ] |
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Being laid off can have it's advantages. I've read many authors I hadn't read before including Kristopher Rufty, William Ollie, Ian Rob Wright and Nate Southard. I also read Sacrifice by Wrath James White. That one was excellent. Just finished Gord Rollos Gods and Monsters. That was a collection that included one called Love; in Pieces which is an homage to Ed and his Infernal books. |
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| Author: | Edward Lee [ Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:29 am ] |
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Yes, all those authors are great and Gord's City Infernal piece was terrific. As for my reading I'm just about to finish August Derleth's collection Watchers out of Time, which I've mentioned previously, but I think I forgot to mention that there wa one story, called The Ancestor, which was conceptually so similar to Ken Russell's movie Altered States (which I think was also based on novel by the screenwriter) that I'm sure the story was an influence to the movie/novel. Right now I'm on the title piece--the last in the book--and so far it's a wonderful distillation of the old Educated Guy Inherits a Pile of Shit House from unknown Relative Theme; Derleth had a great knack for demonstrating HPL's skill for mood and atmosphere. Now I just hope the ending isn't a clunker! Edward Lee |
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| Author: | Edward Lee [ Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:48 pm ] |
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I forgot to add afterward that as I approached the ending of the very excellent Watchers out of Time--well, there WAS no ending! It's quite sad, actually; Derleth died before he could finish the piece. Ah, and since yesterday was the anniversary of HPL's passing I re-read his ghost-written piece, The Diary of Alonzo Typer (the BEST haunted house I think I've ever read, as well as the most effectively atmospheric tale that HPL ever wrote, in my opinion (and the WORST ending!) Then I re-read the all time masterpiece, Dunwich Horror. Long live Lovecraft! Edward Lee |
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| Author: | DaFratH0 [ Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:52 am ] |
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Just listened to the Lee-Ketchum collaboration Sleep Disorder on audiobook. I read it last year sometime, and remembered the stories after I started listening, but again.... audiobook format in some cases (like this one), really does change the mood of what I'm reading/listening to. Sometimes, it's NOT for the better, I will admit. I'd still love more of Ed's works on audiobook, but the one crucial factor for ANY audiobook (but specifically Ed's because of the subject matter) is the narrator. The Bighead was ingenius, perfect is nearly every way, and there couldn't have been a better choice than Mark Justice for the narrator. As a bonus, Ed himself did an audio intro, which I enjoyed thoroughly. To this day, I've not seen a better descriptive term than "religious and social scatology!" Next on the list for audiobook is the third book of a thriller set of books by Joel C Rosenberg, starting with "The Twelth Imam." There's a little TOO much overbearing Christianity theme, but considering the subject matter.... well, it's a good enough set of books on its own that I can deal with it. The one I'm currently listening to is "The Damascus Countdown." For the written word (since my third Kindle shit out on me - I'm damn rough on those things), I'm reading Matthew Bracken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic." It's too disburbingly close to current events for my liking, but that's another reason I'm reading it (and eventually the series). Also waiting for a book by two former spec ops team members called "A Failure of Civility", or "How to defend and protect You, Your Family, Friends, Neighborhood And America during a disaster or crisis" (yes, hella long title). If you couldn't tell, my tastes in literature are as varied as a true internet pr0n connoisseur's taste in women. |
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