What are you reading?

[Ryan]

i would never in a million years read any of the 50 shades books, but this article about the newest one is SLAYING me.

"My cock concurs". Hahaha

[Jon]

Currently reading The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: Haunted City.

Very good horror anthology. Original contributions by Eli Roth, Ethan Hawke, the writers behind movies such as Sinister, The Purge, etc., and much more. The collection of writers presented is rather eclectic, but it all "comes together" nicely (so far).

EDIT: Before that was The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker... think I'll have to read it again as I'm not exactly sure how I felt about it.

[kel]

i bought barker's the hellbound heart at the same time i impulsively bought the scarlet gospels. this dude's INSANELY surreal way of writing is not my thing. i made the same mistake a couple years ago when i searched best-of horror lists and ended up buying (on ebay) and reading kathe koja's the cypher. almost immediately i hated the main characters. the same thing happened with the hellbound heart. i don't want to read the expensive hardback sequel.

anyway, lesson learned. i respect clive barker a lot, but i didn't even like the hellraiser movie series. i blame only myself.

[slave2thewage]

The Scarlet Gospels is a fun read, to be honest. It's quick and basically the literary version of a horror popcorn movie.

I'm ploughing through the collected works of Lovecraft and I really need to finish The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I've been "halfway through" for the last four months. Like @Dra508 on the previous page, podcasts have destroyed my reading time.

[elevenism]

i bought barker's the hellbound heart at the same time i impulsively bought the scarlet gospels. this dude's INSANELY surreal way of writing is not my thing. i made the same mistake a couple years ago when i searched best-of horror lists and ended up buying (on ebay) and reading kathe koja's the cypher. almost immediately i hated the main characters. the same thing happened with the hellbound heart. i don't want to read the expensive hardback sequel.

anyway, lesson learned. i respect clive barker a lot, but i didn't even like the hellraiser movie series. i blame only myself.

Really? Hellbound heart Is like the creepiest nastiest little book I've ever read. Was it TOO like, nasty, or u just no likey? As for me, House of Leaves still. Jesus, I've never read a book and finished it and immediately gone back to the first page until now. I've Never been so interested in what other people thought of a book.Also I swear to god this book gave me night terrors, and right before the book started talking about night terrors

[elevenism]

Did you guy s who like house of leaves know that poe is the author's sister? Her record haunted is intended as a companion piece. Do we have a thread about the book? I wish to discuss it. For instance Did anyone else have bizarre and frightening synchronicities between the book and her own life while reading it?

[thelastdisciple]

Reading Star Wars Aftermath, it's.......interesting. So far it's just been a few random characters save for Wedge Antilles in orbit of each other around/on the same planet, I'm just starting chapter 11. Picks up pretty close to the destruction of the second Death Star/death of Vader and Palpatine and all that. There was a good interlude with Mon Mothma and her feelings over the entire conflict with the Empire so far. There have been some little nods to things specific to Star Wars Rebels that i thought were cool and plenty of other nuggets that tie the universe together.

EDIT: Finished the book, all in all i enjoyed it....but it was hard to follow at first with how sudden it was jumping around to the different character perspectives. Sometimes it would jump without me even realizing it (could be more my problem than the book's) and then I'd end up completely lost and unsure what character i was reading about. It does come together very well after a few chapters though and totally reads like you're watching a Star Wars film or arching TV season infact maybe my biggest complaint is that this WASN'T either of those as i think it would have been a lot easier to digest. Perhaps the audiobook handles things a bit better in that regard but either way reading about what the state of the galaxy is like post Return of the Jedi is pretty awesome. Getting right into how messed up things are everywhere and how people are faring. Also this book is a major win for diversity both in gender and in sexual orientation so there's that.

Good stuff, check it out!

[elevenism]

I've always kind of thought of Greg Iles as a John Grisham imitator and not much more.

That's why i was shocked to hear multiple critics compare his new paperback Natchez Burning to FAULKNER, saying that he has crossed the bridge between popular fiction and "literature."

It's definitely REALLY fucking good though. I've read 3 of his books and don't even really remember them.

But i'm about 250 pages in, and this thing is a whole different ballgame.
I'm thinking that this is to be his magnum opus...it's nearly 900 pages, and is the beginning of a trilogy.

[cicada]

This



Its pretty a good, if a little rambling, account of a 30+ year heroin addiction.

[Jon]

@elevenism

Have you read 'Hunt for the Skinwalker'? It was written by a biochemist that worked with/for NIDSci as part of the Sherman Ranch research team, as well as George Knapp, who I'm sure you're familiar with.

[allegro]

[elevenism]

@elevenism

Have you read 'Hunt for the Skinwalker'? It was written by a biochemist that worked with/for NIDSci as part of the Sherman Ranch research team, as well as George Knapp, who I'm sure you're familiar with.

No, but wow, thank you. It sounds amazing.
Did you see the Skinwalker Ranch horror movie? It was pretty damned scary.

I've met 3 or 4 american indians who, when the conversation turned to the supernatural (as it often does with me,) told me that skinwalkers were absolutely real and that they had SEEN them, and then refused to continue talking about it for fear of summoning one.

The look in these peoples' eyes convinced me that, at the very least, THEY were certainly convinced of the veracity of the skinwalker mythos.

[slave2thewage]

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[Lew]

i recently read "the night circus" and i found it really delightful. whimsical. lovely.
patrick rothfuss (the name of the wind, and the wise man's fear) were another fantastic mind journey.
recently re-read all of alice borchardt's books (which is a torment, because tragically she died before finishing the last novel of her last trilogy).

[orestes]

​Through the Woods​ by Emily Carroll. Fuck man, so, so creepy.

[mrselfdestruct94]

Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson. I've loved the previous two Malazan books, but these books are dense and it takes me awhile to get through them. Not that I'm complaining, it's just an odd change of pace from my usual 'sit down and read 100-150 pages a day and get lost in the book' way of doing things. Memories of Ice is fantastic so far; the story is very engaging, the characters are well developed, and the world is so rich with detail, but usually I hit fifty pages and have to stop for the day.

Can anyone recommend a good semi-recent horror novel I can pick up for Halloween?

[aggroculture]

reading this for a book group...and not liking it much: too dry, so far
EDIT: I really liked this book in the end, half way through it got awesome

[WorzelG]

To be fair, its not like I've read it but I've been reading passages and reviews of Morrissey's first foray into novel writing and it isn't looking good...
Here is an example of some of the prose : “Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”

And here is a review : http://www.theguardian.com/music/mus...st-of-the-lost

[eversonpoe]

To be fair, its not like I've read it but I've been reading passages and reviews of Morrissey's first foray into novel writing and it isn't looking good...
Here is an example of some of the prose : “Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”

And here is a review : http://www.theguardian.com/music/mus...st-of-the-lost

jesus christ, that's ONE sentence!? o.O

[aggroculture]

LOL
Looks like Mozza could win one of those bad sex in literature awards.

[WorzelG]

With that 'howling mouth' description it's like sex in an Edvard Munch painting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sc...The_Scream.jpg

[eversonpoe]

recently finished The Accidental Highwayman by Ben Tripp (and didn't realize while i was reading it that it's "young adult" fiction because honestly those are some of the best books around these days). it was a lot of fun and i'm looking forward to the sequel!



today i started The Paper Magician by Charlie N Holmberg, which is very charming and intriguing. it's also part of a series so that makes me happy.

[orestes]

[halloween]

I'm on the third one and I'm loving every second of it. Well, I lie, I don't like how repetitive he is about certain facts. I mean, I get it- the spice is everywhere, I'm not sure repeating it in every description is helping drive the point home. Or every time he mentions someone has blue eyes- I already know why- but it's coupled with some form of "the sign of spice addiction". In general, it makes for a really fast reading. The story is fascinating!

[ldopa]

starting it tomorrow. a dark, funny, heartfelt, realist take on family hospice.

[allegro]

[sentient02970]

[Lew]

my gods. 3/4 the way through "the goldfinch" and am reeling.
fahk.

[Lew]

the orenda, by joseph boyden.
fucking fabulous.

and the goldfinch was amazing, too.

now if only george rr martin would finish the damn novel...and rothfuss as well...i would be a happy chappy.

[Lew]

DUNE!!!! oh man...one of my all time fave sets of books.
i read a few of the ones written by, i think one of his children ? and that xfiles dude...they were house histories...