what are you reading?

Get to know the forumites, come and say Hello. Chat music, books, tv or games.
User avatar
Maniacal
Undead Horde
Undead Horde
Posts: 376
Joined: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:07 pm
Location: Grimsby
Contact:

Re: what are you reading?

Post by Maniacal »

Trying to read 'Harbour' by John Lindqvist but I just can't get into it, just not as engrossing as 'Let The Right One In' or 'Handling The Undead'.
Image

Twitter: _grimgringhost
Facebook: Maniacal2011
halloweengirl
Running Zombie
Running Zombie
Posts: 106
Joined: Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:17 pm
Location: Disturbia

Re: what are you reading?

Post by halloweengirl »

Maniacal wrote:Trying to read 'Harbour' by John Lindqvist but I just can't get into it, just not as engrossing as 'Let The Right One In' or 'Handling The Undead'.

Have to agree with you on this one. I finally struggled to the end of 'Harbour' but I was a bit underwhelmed with it in comparison to his others.
User avatar
sherbetbizarre
Frightfest Hardcore
Frightfest Hardcore
Posts: 1459
Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:41 am
Contact:

Re: what are you reading?

Post by sherbetbizarre »

User avatar
Maniacal
Undead Horde
Undead Horde
Posts: 376
Joined: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:07 pm
Location: Grimsby
Contact:

Re: what are you reading?

Post by Maniacal »

An old art book called 'Vile Bodies: Photography and the crisis of looking'. I purchased mainly to my interest in post-mortem photography and the works of Joel Peter Witkin but there's so much more too this book. Loving it.
Image

Twitter: _grimgringhost
Facebook: Maniacal2011
Melvin Junko
Undead Horde
Undead Horde
Posts: 426
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:39 pm
Location: tromaville

Re: what are you reading?

Post by Melvin Junko »

Just finished Brian Lumley's Bloodwars and need a little break from the man, got his next 2 at home as well, but decided to go a bit more hardcore and read Wrath James White's Population Zero. I usually only read during my lunch breaks, but I just can not read his stuff when I'm eating. HAd that with Succulent Prey and the Ressurectionist as well, I literaly feel physicly sick when I read his books while eating. Cold sweat, shakes, light headed, i'm not even kidding. No other writer has this effect on me. I feel filthy after I read his work and I love it :)
You can't do nothing right, Cooper! You stupid sonofabitch! You should have been destroyed at birth! That's what I get for teaming up with a hippie!
TheThinMan
Fresh Meat
Fresh Meat
Posts: 15
Joined: Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:18 pm
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Contact:

Re: what are you reading?

Post by TheThinMan »

I've just started reading Grant Morrison's Supergods but the new Aberystwyth book has just arrived so everything gets put aside until I've finished that.
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
User avatar
MaxRenn
Undead Horde
Undead Horde
Posts: 478
Joined: Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:29 pm
Location: London

what are you reading?

Post by MaxRenn »

The Dead by Charlie Higson, follow up to The Enemy. Young adult novels about kids trying to survive after a virus either kills everyone over 14 or turns them into cannibal psychos. Very grim and violent for young adult fiction, and not full of the humour you might expect from the creator of The Fast Show. I'm about half way through The Dead, and so far it's superior to The Enemy.
There is no delight the equal of dread

http://twitter.com/MaxRenn

http://letterboxd.com/maxrenn/

Blog: http://www.chrisandphilpresent.co.uk/blogs/spectacularoptical/
scrobble
Running Zombie
Running Zombie
Posts: 246
Joined: Sun May 21, 2006 2:54 pm
Location: Lake District

Re: what are you reading?

Post by scrobble »

Stephen King's Under The Dome. Am about 250 pages in and really enjoying it so far, but it's so heavy to read in bed (have got the hardback from the library)! I can't help thinking of it as 'Under The Tome' (I know, terrible pun).
If you cut off my head, what would I say... Me and my head, or me and my body? What right has my head to call itself me?
maxmum
Frightfest Hardcore
Frightfest Hardcore
Posts: 1010
Joined: Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:29 am
Location: Lancashire, Northern England....

Re: what are you reading?

Post by maxmum »

Still reading A Dance with Dragons.... it's very loooong. :)
Thanks for the ride, sir.
You have lovely sheep.

@patricidalpup
User avatar
MaxRenn
Undead Horde
Undead Horde
Posts: 478
Joined: Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:29 pm
Location: London

what are you reading?

Post by MaxRenn »

Still reading Higson's The Dead, Jesus it's grim (in a good way)
There is no delight the equal of dread

http://twitter.com/MaxRenn

http://letterboxd.com/maxrenn/

Blog: http://www.chrisandphilpresent.co.uk/blogs/spectacularoptical/
iateabee
Twitching Corpse
Twitching Corpse
Posts: 36
Joined: Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:19 am
Contact:

Re: what are you reading?

Post by iateabee »

I've just started China Miéville's Kraken, and am really enjoying it so far.
User avatar
Maniacal
Undead Horde
Undead Horde
Posts: 376
Joined: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:07 pm
Location: Grimsby
Contact:

Re: what are you reading?

Post by Maniacal »

My friend has leant me New Moon and Eclipse, it's amazing how much I didn't find Twilight that bad of a read. Thogh the character of Bella gets on my tits..
Image

Twitter: _grimgringhost
Facebook: Maniacal2011
AlessaDark
Fresh Meat
Fresh Meat
Posts: 13
Joined: Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:19 am

what are you reading?

Post by AlessaDark »

Recently finished A Dance with Dragons by G RR Martin and the amazing Embassytown by China Mieville, also have to recommend The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie - cynical realist epic fantasy - and Feed by Mira Grant - post-zombie world through the eyes of a blogger.
plushroom
Twitching Corpse
Twitching Corpse
Posts: 21
Joined: Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:15 am
Location: Herts
Contact:

Re: what are you reading?

Post by plushroom »

Currently reading:
A Touch of Dead - Charlaine Harris
Nostrodamus Ate My Hamster - Robert Rankin
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

Plus my usual regular dose of comic books and the first Preacher graphic novel in preparation for meeting Garth Ennis at Forbidden Planet in a couple of weeks...presuming it goes ahead after all that London is dealing with right now :?
User avatar
evilandy
Fresh Meat
Fresh Meat
Posts: 2
Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:53 am
Location: Milton Keynes

Re: what are you reading?

Post by evilandy »

just read league of extraordinary gentlemen century:1969, alan moore is mentalist as ever. not as good as century:1910 though.
also reading an indian novel called bunker 13, which is crazy and drug fuelled and gladly un-filmable.
Post Reply