I just started Viriconium by M. John Harrison and am trying to get through Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hoftstadter. This is the third book I've read by a computer scientist and I have to remind myself not to do that anymore.
Yourselves?
sweetiemuffinsugarplum: I just started Viriconium by M. John Harrison and am trying to get through Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hoftstadter. This is the third book I've read by a computer scientist and I have to remind myself not to do that anymore. Yourselves?
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About to start Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Just finished Prelude To Foundation. Catching up on my classic science fiction.
Yeah, I'm a fucking dork.
I'm casually reading through a book of William Butler Yeats's plays. I'm a big fan of his poetry and figured that now would be a great time to hit Powells Books and read some of his theatre work.
Next on my list is a monster though. The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. Thats gonna take me forever to get through.
JW:About to start Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Just finished Prelude To Foundation. Catching up on my classic science fiction. Yeah, I'm a fucking dork.
You're not alone, Viriconium is sci-fi, just finished Hyperion by Dan Simmons and Idoru by William Gibson, both sci-fi, and my next book will be The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds (also, big surprise, sci-fi). Although in between Hyperion and Idoru was Hello I'm Special, a Columbia textbook about how individuality has become the new conformity.
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Night Shift - Stephen King
Next up: The Woods Are Dark - Richard Laymon.
I love this guy's stuff. If you haven't checked him out yet, you really ought to.
Matt McMadden: Night Shift - Stephen King Next up: The Woods Are Dark - Richard Laymon. I love this guy's stuff. If you haven't checked him out yet, you really ought to.
Matt, what do you recommend? Is he a horror/suspense writer? I am a big Dean Koontz and Dan Simmons fan. I would recommend "Summer of Night" by Dan Simmons to just about anyone who loves that genre.
I'm about to finish The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoyevsky. Will feel a huge sense of accomplishment, as it is 700 pages long and I put off reading it for years. I read most his other stuff bout 7 years back, but the sheer size of this epic always scared me away. I got 40 pages to go. I gotta change it up after this, perhaps some sci-fi, some non-fiction, definitely something less heavy, less... Russian.
bamafan: Matt McMadden: Night Shift - Stephen King Next up: The Woods Are Dark - Richard Laymon. I love this guy's stuff. If you haven't checked him out yet, you really ought to. Matt, what do you recommend? Is he a horror/suspense writer? I am a big Dean Koontz and Dan Simmons fan. I would recommend "Summer of Night" by Dan Simmons to just about anyone who loves that genre.
He's exactly that kind of writer. I'd recommend "In The Dark," "Body Rides" and "Blood Games" to name a few.
Recently finished Hedda Gabler (One of the few female protagonists I truly felt like I related with) and The Metamorphosis (Kinda Depressing) and am about to start Nick Cave's And The Ass Saw the Angel. Also gonna start Cormac Mcarthy's The Road.
Just a few chapters into Terry Goodkind's "Naked Empire". I finished the series when "Confessor" was released but now I'm reading each book chronologically since I didn't have the chance to do so since I often caught up with the series without a new book being released.
sloanan:Also gonna start Cormac Mcarthy's The Road.
I've been planning on picking that up. Wanna get to it before the movie comes, which I believe is some time before the end of the year.
Richard Laymon rules I have been pimping his shit for years, I have read about 20 of his books, just found his short story collection in Singapore and read that, going to Read "Cuts" next. My fave is Night in Lonesome October" and "To wake the Dead"
Let me see I read Continental Drifter by Elliot Hester (travel book), Donnie Brasco the book and about 3/4 of the Hobbit last week and I'm starting on a Dennis Etchison book called double edge.
"The woods are dark" is good Laymon btw, early shit but very brutal, along the lines of the Cellar and the Midnight Tour. See if you can find "Out go the lights" which is really early shit too.
Matt McMadden: bamafan: Matt McMadden: Night Shift - Stephen King Next up: The Woods Are Dark - Richard Laymon. I love this guy's stuff. If you haven't checked him out yet, you really ought to. Matt, what do you recommend? Is he a horror/suspense writer? I am a big Dean Koontz and Dan Simmons fan. I would recommend "Summer of Night" by Dan Simmons to just about anyone who loves that genre. He's exactly that kind of writer. I'd recommend "In The Dark," "Body Rides" and "Blood Games" to name a few.
Unlike Koontz though his books are very graphic with sex, rape and violance of a very perverted kind so be ready for that. The prose is somewhat similiar though. I would recommend:
Night in Lonesome October
Traveling Vampire Show
To Wake the Dead
The Cellar
The Midnight Tour (In the Dark is very good though) those other two are not my faves but they are decent)