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Joined: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:14 am Posts: 96 Location: Georgia
Reading Matthew Stokoe's COWS after seeing a few people praise it in this thread and elsewhere. Only a third of the way through it, and I can't believe the places it's gone already. I can only imagine what's in store for me.
Awsome!! Cows is amazing. Follow that one up with High Life. It's a novel unto itself. I'm still trying to find another book that can even come close to comparing. The style is incredibly original.
It goes some OTHER places that will amaze you. And the prose is incredible.
Joined: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:29 am Posts: 317 Location: Cheshire/UK
I have finished Shane Mckenzie's Muerte Con Carne, loved this one apart from the Mexican/Spanish dialogue. Not good with English let alone other speaks. Inbred Family and Mexican wrestling what could possibly go wrong?
Just started Jack Ketchum's Off Season, not sure how far I'll get with this one as Sixty Five Stirrup Iron Road just plopped onto the door mat. Watch this space
still reading late night Horror show by Bryan Smith. Don't have as muchg timne to read as I'd like. Ordered Santa Saves the world and the pb version of Sixty Five Iron Stirrup Road. Couldn't wait for the hb to get here.
Thanks for the FT comments; I just realized how old that book is! Last night I reread Mr Humphrey's Inheritence by MR James (a big influence for Witch Water) and tonight I'll reread his Stalls of Barchester Cathedral cuz one of the coolest scenes takes place on new year's eve. Speaking of new years eve, may all of you have a great one and a great 2014!
Yeah, Family. Tradition was amazing. I read it while on a camping trip in the Selkirk mountains in Canada (where I'm from). I was so excited when I received a copy of this, because I had been looking for one like a hound, a little while after I had discovered Edward Lee (about 2.5 years ago).
I actually read that book in outhouses, on a row boat while fishing, sitting on rocks out in the woods, and on top of a mountain I drove up in my truck. Because I was in the actual environment, it was even better, plus I just couldn't believe what I was reading. I even bought an extra copy, just because I loved it so much. Easily one of my faves.
Presently I am finishing Population Zero (amazing) and starting J F Gonzalez's The Corporation.
Joined: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:14 am Posts: 96 Location: Georgia
I get the feeling you guys all read a lot more and a lot faster than me. I only read like 4 to 6 books a year if I'm lucky.
Anyhow, I just finished Stokoe's COWS. I found the ending slightly underwhelming, and I prefer the novel's first half to its second half, where some of the interesting characters were already killed off and the extreme/gross stuff tapered off. I loved Stokoe's style of writing though, and overall it was definitely an interesting and original read.
I'm finally about to start Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road!
Bigfoot Crank Stomp - Erik Williams. So much fun. All You Can Eat - Shane Mckenzie . Again, so much fun. Genital Grinder - Ryan Harding. Pretty grim stuff. Sharing Needles was amazing. I loved how the stories were interconnected. The Drunken Exorcist - K Trap Jones. Laugh out loud funny and exciting.
Non horror.
Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Pretty mind blowing.
The Hobbit, which somehow I've never read before. Also reading Glimpses, the Rick Hautala short story collection. Just finished Shane McKenzie's hilarious Fat Off Sex and Violence and Skipp's wild Art is the Devil.
Old School with Charlee Jacob's DREAD IN THE BEAST short story collection. Carlton Mellick's QUICKSAND HOUSE. I found it a bit lacking, as I do with most of his stuff. I have to get into reading more bizarro. That shit kicks ass.
Joined: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:14 am Posts: 96 Location: Georgia
THE EGG MAN by Carlton Mellick III, cuz I too wanna start getting into bizarro. Sure sounds badass. I read his APESHIT and didn't care too much for it, but that was more horror-ish. EGG MAN is my first full-on bizarro, and I'm digging it so far.
Also reading THE FRIEDKIN CONNECTION, by William Friedkin. I don't often do autobiographies, but Friedkin is one of my favorite movie directors, and for the longest time that's what I wanted to be, and it got pretty good reviews. Very interesting so far.
Reading Splatterspunk by Edward Lee and John Pelan! I picked up a copy of the lettered edition and it's a sweet book. Nicely put together. Well illustrated and a nice solid feel. I compare this to the Overlook Connection lettered edition of Bighead or the Cemetery Dance lettered editions of Ed's novels I have and this Sideshow Press book is much, much nicer. As far as I can tell John Turi couldn't write his way out of first grade but he put out some nice books in his short publishing career!
It truly has no message. And nothing to say, that is why it is such a gem. Not to mention that it is one of the most amazing pieces of writing I have ever read.
Finished SPLATTERSPUNK. Once again, what a gorge raiser! Chyme and chyme again... Ed's most popular hardcore seems to be the most nauseating. Just hinting for some more. On to Stirrup Iron Road!
Recently read Wrath James White's Prey Drive and Bryan Smith's Depraved 2. Both great books but I think Edward Lee's Header 2 is still the best horror sequel. Can't wait for Header 3 the squeequel!
Yeah, I'd love to see Edward Lee's version of a book like that. A Hollywood noire, full of snuff, porn, underground bars, mutilation shows, and back alley sickness. I bet he'd knock it out of the park... But then again, he always knocks it out of the park as far as I'm concerned.
I always get laid off from my job from the end of November until the beginning of April so I've read a ton of books over the last few months. To prepare for Sixty Five Stirrup Road I read a bunch of Shane McKenzies including Addicted to the Dead, Fat off Sex and Violence, Bleed on Me, How the West was Wicked. I had already read Infinity House and Muerte Con Carne. I also checked out a female author I hadn't heard of named Melissa Simonson. I read Hazard Pay, Doubles, and Snuff which the latter was pretty fucked up. As far as new books from my regular favorites, I read Voracious, 400 days of Oppression, Prey Drive and Son of a Bitch by Wrath James White and 68 Kill, Blood and Whiskey, The Halloween Bride, Depraved 2, and Go Kill Crazy by Bryan Smith. Red Sky and Pale Horses by Nate Southard. The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. Oh yeah, based on a recommendation from Jack Ketchum, I read Brew by Bill Braddock. Good fun book. I need to go back to work because I'm running out of authors and money. I actually came here today to get suggestions from you all. I guess I'll try High Life next.
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