OMG BOOKS! ... for people who read books

[Aaron]

How can anyone not like that book? How old is your son now anyway?

[chimera]

Fourteen; he's not much of a reader, sadly, so I'm always surprised when he actually enjoys a book.

[kristin]

For anyone who hasn't read it yet, Justin Cronin's The Passage is The Stand for the 21st Century, with less religious overtones.  But really well-written.

I'm about 40% done- thanks for the recommendation. It's really good.

[luna]

apparently this is a trilogy, the second one is supposed to be coming out near the end of the year!

[chimera]

Yeah I'm looking forward to what comes next!

For SK fans, the story he wrote with his son Joe - "Throttle" - is now available for download on Kindle (before you had to buy in one of a couple anthologies).  It's inspired by the Richard Matheson novella/Steven Spielberg movie Duel.

[luna]

ooh i will have to check this out

just started dance, dance dance - murakami

he has definitely become one of my fav authors over the last year

[Aaron]

NEW DARK TOWER BOOK OUT TODAY!

[Dust]

I bought House of Leaves for my girl a couple of months ago, and we're slowly going through it as we trade it between each other.  I haven't made it very far in, but holy damn I love it.

About halfway through The Dark Tower books too.  So far The Waste Lands has been my favourite.

And Stanislaw Lem's Solaris was pretty great too.

I also dig through Lovecraft during my day-to-day travels.  Anyone ever read Guillermo del Toro's screenplay for At The Mountains of Madness?  It was pretty alright.

[kristin]

ooh i will have to check this out

just started dance, dance dance - murakami

he has definitely become one of my fav authors over the last year

Murakami = <3

[rynne]

Been reading quite a bit the last few weeks. I just got through the S. T. Joshi-edited Black Wings of Cthulhu anthology of modern Lovecraft-influenced writers. I'm currently working though William Hope Hodgson's House on the Borderland. For being written at the very beginning of the twentieth century, House is amazingly modern in its blending and scope of psychological and cosmic horror, starting with an attack by inexplicable monstrosities (that are never entirely established as being physical and/or real) and ending on an extended contemplation of the eons-long death and dissolution of the solar system.

Next up is Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter, then I'll need to decide if Raymond and Chandler would make better summer reading than Gravity's Rainbow.


And that's not even considering that the VanderMeers' ridiculously comprehensive The Weird anthology is coming to America next month. The table of contents is an embarassment of riches: Blackwood, Lovecraft, Kafka, Borges, Bloch, King, Gibson, Ellison, Barker, Gaiman, Chabon, Kiernan, Mieville, Ligotti, etc., etc., etc.

[chimera]

"The Hospice!"  OMG one of the most bizarre and terrifying stories I've ever read.  Although I'm a bit more partial to "Ravissante."
Thanks for the heads-up on this anthology, rynne.
PS: I vote for a summer of noir, with a little Ellroy mixed in there.

PPS: I finally found a YA novel I really approve of: At The House of the Magician by Mary Hooper.  It's about a young girl who goes to work for Dr. John Dee.  Yes, that John Dee.

[luna]

The house on the borderland is free on my kindle so it's now on my list of things to read

[naut]

Prob said this before but Dance Dance Dance is my favourite HM.

[luna]

I just finished it, definitely one of his best!

just started reading The Wind Through The Keyhole, I love returning to mid world..really need to read the entire series again soon

[kristin]

RIP Kindle. Dropped it in the bathtub last weekend. Kept in in rice for a few days- things looked promising, I was able to scroll around a bit- but it has since frozen on the welcome screen.