What have you read recently?

Hursty

Rory Clements

deadhead

The first 4 of the Dune chronicles … incredible work. I’ll probably have to read it a few more times.

Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley startup

Dubman

Kirk Field - Rave new world
Its good to read a book from a punter/ reporter perspective instead if a DJ. It starts off with all the big M25 Orbital raves from sunrise to energy and beyond.

https://www.kirkfield.net/

Homegrove

I’m a big fan of Dan Simmons (his horror AND scifi), so it may come as a surprise I hadn’t read Children of the Night before. It was great, a scientific vampire novel, like if Crichton in his peak would have made a book about vampires. Set in Romania right after Ceausescu’s fall it’s also a fascinating look at the country then. Simmons travelled in Romania extensively in 1990 researching the book.

Dan

gcw Good TV adaptation knocking about.

Homegrove

I reread Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and damn that alcoholic amphetamine addict sure could write.

Along_the_Wire

Just read a brilliant book by Luke Haines (The Auteurs) called Bad Vibes. Very funny memoir of the Brit Pop era - very acidic and plenty of LOL moments.

Homegrove

William Gibson’s Blue Ant-trilogy (Pattern Recognation, Spook County, Zero History) was fucking awesome.

gcw

Joe Hill - Heart Shaped Box

I was aware that he is Stephen King’s son and there were certainly shades of early King in this. It is one of his earlier novels so I will probably seek out some of his other work. @Homegrove have you read this?

Homegrove

gcw of course. I’ve read everything he’s written, except for Fireman. I have that too, just could not get into it at the time it was released. Too grim, I must try again soon. He’s got a knack for writing ugly people (inside and outside) really realistically. He’s also has talent of delivering a gut punching unhappy ending. I was almost angry at him after finishing the story about guns in his Strange Weather-collection.

gcw

Homegrove gotta be tough having to follow a dad like that - I know King isnt exactly lauded as a literary genius but he’s written some brilliant stories over the years. I’ll definitely pick up some other books by Hill.

Homegrove

gcw I’d say Hill is a better writer in many ways compared to his pops. And he had released a short story collection, and his first novel before even his publisher knew he was King’s son. That should make him feel he’s a self made man.

C_J

Homegrove Grady Hendrix - The Final Girl Support Group. This was a fantastic take on the slasher-genre. Loved it. 395 pages and I breezed through it in three days.

I tried hard to get into this. It’s so, so shit. I don’t understand why people love this nonsense. It’s like those R.L. Stine Babysitter Point Horror books except even shitter.

C_J

Homegrove Peter May - The Blackhouse

This is a better book. Not sure if you’d get much out of Lewis unless you enjoy being bereft of Wi-Fi and all modern forms of commerce - but trees there are.

Wasily

Reading this. Bio chronicling the rise of the big 8 so-called 80s action heroes. Lots of insider anecdotes and pics too. Enjoying it so far….

Homegrove

Hard cover copies of the new Stephen King and John Connolly-novels in the mail today, so a good day here. Connelly is a sequel to his superb fantasy A Book of Lost Things from 2006, and King is about a couple who are geriatric cannibals. Both should be fun. But first have to finish the Gibson I’m currently reading, The Peripheral. 90 pages left, and this is almost nothing like the Amazon TV show, characters and setting aside.

Homegrove

I enjoyed Holly a lot.

baggers44

2666 Roberto Bolaño - took me almost a year on an off but amazing. defies description really.

Smallman1

Worth a whirl Baggers?

Am looking for a read as off to Corfu next week.

baggers44

Smallman1 it really is - it’s a weird mixture of navel gazing literary intrigue and a sort of detective story - indescribable almost. here is the LRB review which sort of hints at its weirdness https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n04/michael-wood/more-like-a-cemetery

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