Matthew on 16/3/2010 at 23:43
Quote Posted by DaBeast
Just finished both of them, thanks for the recommendation, got any more?
Also, is it just me or has Prospero Burns been pushed back?
I haven't seen it yet, so you might be right.
If you can find them (I think they're out of print), the Shira Calpurnia books seem to be pretty good - they follow the cases of an Arbitrator Senioris in the Adeptus Arbites.
Dark Apostle wasn't bad in that it showed the effects of a Chaos occupation of an Imperial world, but I haven't read its sequels yet.
Other than that, the first couple of Grey Knights books (Grey Knight and Dark Adeptus) are very good, as is Brothers of the Snake. The Space Wolf books start off pretty well but take a bit of a dive when the authors change over. I'm going through the Soul Drinkers books too, the first one was quite promising.
june gloom on 20/3/2010 at 13:46
Finally finished Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Think my next endeavor will be Lovecraft Unbound, a collection of HPL-inspired short stories.
Angel Dust on 21/3/2010 at 02:17
What did you think of Flow dethtoll? Personally I really liked it up until the revelation and then it kind of just petered out. It kinda sits in the, upper echelon mind, middle of the Dick canon for me.
Anyway last week I finished the rather good American Rust by Philipp Meyer. A multi-character moral drama that details the domino-like repercussions of a violent confrontation, it reads almost like a more accessible William Faulkner in the way that seamlessly shifts perspective between the 6 main characters. Tonally and thematically it is more of mix of Cormac McCarthy (ala All The Pretty Horses) and Denis Lehane and I would recommend it to fans of either author. And I'm pretty sure you can expect to see a film adaptation sometime in the next 5 years.
Currently I'm about 100 pages into the behemoth that is Gravity's Rainbow. While it hasn't yet cast the same spell over me that The Crying of Lot 49 did (I found that book to be utterly brilliant; both darkly funny and powerfully eerie) it is still bringing the funny and the crazy. It's very dense with detail and allusion (I'm hitting Google just as much for historical and scientific references as I am for new words) and the hallucinogenic narrative throws me for a loop at times but I'm enjoying the ride so far.
thefonz on 21/3/2010 at 09:28
I was at a book signing with a mate yesterday at FP in London where I met Joe Hill. Thus I am now reading 'the heart shaped box' which is about a dude who buys a ghost and the ghost goes batshit crazy on him and tries to kill him.
Sofar its good, definitely enjoying it more than Mr Hills father - Mr Stephen King.
Anyway, a thoroughly nice chap and he signed my copy of Lovecraft's Necronomican which I happened to be holding at the time.
june gloom on 21/3/2010 at 13:32
Your assessment of Flow My Tears matches that of mine, AD. The ending made just barely any sense, but I was enjoying myself up until then.
june gloom on 2/5/2010 at 04:36
So I just read through Lovecraft Unbound, a collection of short stories inspired by HPL by authors as varied as Joyce Carol Oates and Marc Laidlaw.
Some of the stories were great, some of them were less great, but overall it was an entertaining read.
As soon as that was done, I picked up William Gibson's sole short story collection, Burning Chrome. I'm skipping over the three Sprawl stories he wrote, saving them for last. Why? Because as soon as I'm done reading those three stories, I'm picking up Neuromancer yet again. I keep going back to the Sprawl trilogy over and over despite having read them twice already- I fucking love them to bits.
demagogue on 2/5/2010 at 13:28
Currently reading Predicative Minds by Radu Bogdan (philosophy prof) as part of my neverending quest to understand human consciousness and thought. I'm much more sympathetic with his take than the traditional story.
henke on 2/5/2010 at 14:26
Just finished "Misery" by Stephen King(first book of his I've read). Can't remember if the "rinse" scene was in the movie or not but that part really made me go :eww:
Eric18 on 2/5/2010 at 15:22
WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
Really great book so far.
june gloom on 2/5/2010 at 17:44
That's nowhere near Stephen King's best book, henke. If you start from 1985 and work your way backwards, they only get better.
Though Dreamcatcher was surprisingly good, and you can't pass up any of his short story collections no matter when they were published.
