doublename Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 (edited) Pagan Spain by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Slowly making my way through The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin. It's good, but goddamn I cannot stomach fantasy at all. Edited September 2, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 meanwhile in Bristol http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Are there any good new crime novels? My brothers birthday is coming up and I know sod all about the genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Are there any good new crime novels? My brothers birthday is coming up and I know sod all about the genre. if your brother is into dark, neo-noirish crime stuff, I would highly recommend a trilogy of lesser-known novels by Will Christopher Baer. They aren't new, but they are fucking great. The first one is called Kiss Me, Judas https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Judas-Will-Christopher-Baer/dp/0670881759/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0670881759&pd_rd_r=N08SWA0NWC9AEMX38CN8&pd_rd_w=3D04q&pd_rd_wg=0NWG2&psc=1&refRID=N08SWA0NWC9AEMX38CN8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Cool, I work in a pretty big bookshop so hopefully they'll have it there tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 my "to read" list is growing ever longer because of this thread. nicola barker Darkmans.. was a great tip. read that last year due to someone mentioning it in this thread. now i need to get more of her stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Pagan Spain by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Slowly making my way through The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin. It's good, but goddamn I cannot stomach fantasy at all. I bought the Laird Barron book Occultism. So far I'm on the fourth short story.. Also read I Am Legend which was also neat. Once I've done Occultism I'll be read Imajica (Barker). I kind of feel I can't go wrong with Clive Barker tbh. Still need to read more though....I just find if I've done plenty of work and even though I've had the strongest cup of coffee known to man I read three pages and I'm sinking into a deep sleep. My eyelids turn into lead shutters. Hate it. So frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 halfway through 2666, not looking forward to the 200 or so pages of the Part About the Murders I've yet to read. It's like American Psycho but instead of describing people's clothing it's describing rape and murder victims Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 halfway through 2666, not looking forward to the 200 or so pages of the Part About the Murders I've yet to read. It's like American Psycho but instead of describing people's clothing it's describing rape and murder victims American Psycho also describes quite a bit of rape and murder, as well as a bitchin Whitney Houston review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 it's like american psycho except instead of describing putting rats up a girl's pussy it describes a murder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 it's like american psycho except instead of describing putting rats up a girl's pussy it describes a murder.lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 it's like american psycho except instead of describing putting rats up a girl's pussy it describes a murder. what I mean though is that in American Psycho you get these constant, repetitive, almost identical descriptions of people's clothing while in 2666 Bolaño does that with murder victims, just one after the other until they all start blurring together. Not the best comparison but you get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echolalia Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) Found the David Foster Wallace essay The Seminal Importance of Terminator 2 for those that are interested... will give it a read later.. dfw_scanned_essays.pdf Edited September 16, 2017 by Echolalia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 But yeah, will read that later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 lol 2666 update: might not even finish before I'm forced to return it to the library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Alright fellas, help me put together a kickass pile of spooky books to read this autumn. I dug out Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf last night (it was next to a bunch of old Goosebumps books—hell yeah), and before that I reread Alan Moore's From Hell. Plus I got this thing called Powers of Darkness, which I guess is what happened when Bram Stoker's Icelandic translator for Dracula decided to blood-and-gore things up a bit. So that could be fun. or crap, but maybe fun crap. Suggestions? I hunger for fresh blood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 For horror I have recently enjoyed The Croning, The Fisherman, Rawblood, Hex and Apartment 16. Sorry to not state the authors but I'm in bed and my bookshelf is too far away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 I really liked the ritual by Adam Nevill, at least until it went off the rails in the final third. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 I dunno if I ever mentioned it here but I also read The Fisherman recently. Pretty solid story overall, definitely some creepy sections. Good mood throughout. Did anyone say Ligotti yet? Sort of a given I guess these days but still, often creepy and always weird. If you can handle his style of writing, of course. I still haven't touched too much of his earlier work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Thanks guys! Hadn’t heard of The Fisherman; will definitely find meself a copy of that one. Not too optimistic about Adam Nevill based on the excerpts I just read, but I’ll give him a shot. About halfway through Powers of Darkness (the translator-tweaked Dracula I mentioned above). Turns out it’s really different. Lots of details and weird occurrences that give it sort of an Irish/Scandinavian folklore feel, to my mind—nothing heavy-handed, just reads a bit less modern Gothic in tone (Henry James, Mary Shelley stuff). It’s also got loads of footnotes which are occasionally interesting but mostly not. Good for a dreary evening or two in any case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kites Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Finally got around to reading an Umberto Eco book, "Numero Zero". I was worried when I read it was his weakest novel, but it made for a nice afternoon read the other day. Just picked up "The Name of the Rose" and have begun to dig in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 I really liked the ritual by Adam Nevill, at least until it went off the rails in the final third. It really did, I'll be intrigued to see if they kept this section in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echolalia Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Halfway through The Pale King. Loved the chapter on his involuntary sweating. The book sits on the right side of misanthropy and cynicism so not to be nasty as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Alright fellas, help me put together a kickass pile of spooky books to read this autumn. I dug out Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf last night (it was next to a bunch of old Goosebumps books—hell yeah), and before that I reread Alan Moore's From Hell. Plus I got this thing called Powers of Darkness, which I guess is what happened when Bram Stoker's Icelandic translator for Dracula decided to blood-and-gore things up a bit. So that could be fun. or crap, but maybe fun crap. Suggestions? I hunger for fresh blood The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud Experimental Film by Gemma Files Almost anything by Jack Ketchum (if you want really nasty blood+guts stuff) A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay The Least Of My Scars by Stephen Graham Jones Penpal by Dathan Auerbach Any short stories by Thomas Ligotti Anything at all by Brian Evenson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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