What book are you currently reading?

Reading Book 2 of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, "Vamphyri!" I have come across these books in used stores for years and always thought they looked like typical 80s pulp vampire novels. A month or so ago, I picked up the first two on a whim and boy, was I wrong! If you are unfamiliar with them, they are part Cold War spy novel, (but in this world, psychic spy research has been put to practical use, particularly in Russia and Britain) and part vampire legend, though approached in a completely unique way. The books are over 20 years old, so many of you horror aficionados have probably read them, but I am thoroughly enjoying these! And because they are set in a specific time, late 70s to early 80s, they don't feel dated as does some of the old pulp horror that is set in the "present."

DallasBlack wrote:

Damn Terry Brooks. He's sucked me into another series and I've finished:



Now I have to get the third book but I'm still on the road. I had a chance to buy it yesterday, but the Barnes And Noble I went to didn't have it. I knew I should have bought it when I had the chance several weeks ago. I'm not a patient man, so this really sucks!

DallasBlack wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Damn Terry Brooks. He's sucked me into another series and I've finished:



Now I have to get the third book but I'm still on the road. I had a chance to buy it yesterday, but the Barnes And Noble I went to didn't have it. I knew I should have bought it when I had the chance several weeks ago. I'm not a patient man, so this really sucks!

Hey DB, have books on tape worked out for you? I've been thinking of giving it a go.

corplhicks wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Damn Terry Brooks. He's sucked me into another series and I've finished:



Now I have to get the third book but I'm still on the road. I had a chance to buy it yesterday, but the Barnes And Noble I went to didn't have it. I knew I should have bought it when I had the chance several weeks ago. I'm not a patient man, so this really sucks!

Hey DB, have books on tape worked out for you? I've been thinking of giving it a go.

I'm contemplating it, but for now I just stick with my music and Rush 24/7 podcasts. My dad used to listen to them a lot. He'd rent 6-7 of them from the library and switch them out every month.

DallasBlack wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Damn Terry Brooks. He's sucked me into another series and I've finished:



Now I have to get the third book but I'm still on the road. I had a chance to buy it yesterday, but the Barnes And Noble I went to didn't have it. I knew I should have bought it when I had the chance several weeks ago. I'm not a patient man, so this really sucks!

Hey DB, have books on tape worked out for you? I've been thinking of giving it a go.

I'm contemplating it, but for now I just stick with my music and Rush 24/7 podcasts. My dad used to listen to them a lot. He'd rent 6-7 of them from the library and switch them out every month.

Now there's that website you can purchase them off of. I'm on the road for a fraction of what you log every day, but at some point music can get monotonous, like around the fifth or sixth hour, and I don't read nearly as much as I used to...actually, I don't at all (and I was an English major, ironically), so it seems like a good change-up.

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rentless; A Memoir by Yngwie J Malmsteen

Finally ran out of songs to sing (still have tons of music to listen to) and didn't have enough time to add anything to my MP3 players so I got some book tapes. Listened to:




John Saul is a good ghost story writer and can easily suck the reader into the story, but he is so predictable. An evil is born. People die because of said evil. People find source of evil. People put an end to evil. Evil survives. The end.

The Christian Atheist by Craig Groeschel

Currently listening to:

No Angel-My Harrowing Undercover Journey To The Inner Circle Of The Hell's Angel's by Jay Dobbins

The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Nirvana : The Biography by Everett True

I was digging the first two hundred pages and the style of the author using his first hand experiences covering the scene to tell the story. But as soon as Courtney Love comes into the story the thing grinds to a halt. Turns out the author was involved with her so it starts to read like catty high school bickering with "she said" and all that. Sucks because it was a good read before that. And I'm the furthest thing from a Love hater too.

The Cosmic Chess Match by LA Marzulli.

The Book of Heavy Metal

How to win at Poker.

Going to start Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig in a few days.

Read this a while back:



Now reading (from time to time):



Been busy with book tapes:

John Saul-The Devil's Labyrinth
Stephen King-After Sunset (loved 'N' best)
Matthew Pearl-The Dante Club




Currently:

Isaac Asimov -I, Robot

Hey DB, how is that Fringe book? I've heard a lot of good things about it; thinking about picking it up.

With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge - I have read this before, but I am re-reading it during my current Pacific Theater of War memoir binge.  This is probably the all time classic memoir of combat in World War II and is brutally honest about the savage nature of the fighting in the Pacific.  Sledge suffered from PTSD for the rest of his life and it's a miracle he didn't lose his mind during the war.  I first read this book back in the 80s and some of the scenes described have never left my memory.

corplhicks wrote:

Hey DB, how is that Fringe book? I've heard a lot of good things about it; thinking about picking it up.

Pretty good, it incorporates the Zodiac killer into the alternate universe. The plot revolves around Walter and Bell as young college students messing with drugs opening a portal to another universe in which the Zodiac Killer finds himself in our world with a whole new group of victims. It's up to Walter, Bell, and Nina to capture him. However I had to take a break to read this:



ALL Dwarfers need to read this book. It was written in 1989 during the "glory days" of the show so fans that grew tired of the show later on will still love it. How did Lister get into the space core? How did he first meet Rimmer? The answers are found in here. I am only about 1/4 into it but I'm already laughing my ass off. Just read the synopsis:

Quote :

The first lesson Lister learned about space travel was you should never try it. But Lister didn't have a choice. All he remembered was going on a birthday celebration pub crawl through London. When he came to his senses again, he was living in a locker on one of Saturn's moons, with nothing in his pockets but a passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein.
So he did the only thing he could. Amazed to discover they would actually hire him, he joined the Space Corps--and found himself aboard Red Dwarf, a spaceship as big as a small city that, six or seven years from now, would get him back to Earth. What Lister couldn't foresee was that he'd inadvertently signed up for a one-way jaunt three million years into the future--a future which would see him the last living member of the human race, with only a hologram crew mate and a highly evolved Cat for company. Of course, that was before the ship broke the light barrier and things began to get really weird.

Right now I'm reading "ARGO: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History" by Antonio Mendez

I just started Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman, I believe FF, mentioned it, so picked it up at the library, very very funny