The Shroud Underground

I thought Relic was fun, but I wasn't hit hard enough by the book to really go out and pick up anything else the duo has written. Better than the movie at least.

Currently rereading Jack O'Connell's THE RESURRECTIONIST. About the father of a young boy in a coma who brings the kid to an oddball clinic. He and his son used to enjoy a comic book series called LIMBO and he still reads to the kid. The novel is broken into alternating sections of events that take place at the clinic and chapters of LIMBO, about a group of circus freaks trying to make their way through a strange city. Also on hand is a rough motorcycle gang that does shady dealing with the head of the clinic as well as a weird card game that the staffers play, also called LIMBO, where they pretend to include and even be some of the coma victims. O'Connell's a master of weaving disparate elements into a wonderful cohesive story. Excellent on several levels, I hope folks will give this one a shot.

Was looking on my bookshelf just yesterday and saw Sara Gran's Come Closer, which is one of the best novels about demonic possession ever IMO!

After decades of resisting it, I'm trying to read a little Lovecraft (I've never, ever finished reading one of those stories. Every time I tried I just got lost in the dense jungle of sentence structure and ran screaming as fast as I could).

ANANSI BOYS by Neil Gaiman.

Nathaniel Lambert wrote:ANANSI BOYS by Neil Gaiman.

That was pretty good, but I liked American Gods better. I just cracked Speaks the Nightbird

rsmccoy wrote:

Nathaniel Lambert wrote:ANANSI BOYS by Neil Gaiman.

That was pretty good, but I liked American Gods better. I just cracked Speaks the Nightbird

Gaiman has such a unique voice. Some of the stuff he pulls off, like three semicolons and a colon all within the same paragraph, but they're placed so beautifully. He's the kinda guy that makes you want to quit writing, 'cause you know there's no way this keyboard click-clacker could ever make it work.

Thanks for the recommendation for Jack O'Connell's THE RESURRECTIONIST. I will definitely check it out. It sounds great.

I'm reading Stephen King's TOMMYKNOCKERS, one of his that I never got around to reading before.

I just finished Jack Ketchum's RED. It is a short masterpiece. I definitely have to read more of his stuff. I have OFF SEASON on the shelf.

Recently finished the first "Clickers."

Despite reading six to eight books a month, my reading list never seems to shrink. Half Price Books just opened a store close by. Enough said, I think.

I'm currently reading A Deadly Shade of Gold by John D. MacDonald. A Deadly Shade is the fifth installment of Mr. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. There are 22 in all, and I'm reading them in order. These books are excellent.

Nathaniel Lambert wrote:

rsmccoy wrote:

Nathaniel Lambert wrote:ANANSI BOYS by Neil Gaiman.

That was pretty good, but I liked American Gods better. I just cracked Speaks the Nightbird

Gaiman has such a unique voice. Some of the stuff he pulls off, like three semicolons and a colon all within the same paragraph, but they're placed so beautifully. He's the kinda guy that makes you want to quit writing, 'cause you know there's no way this keyboard click-clacker could ever make it work.

Agreed. I actually just had my students read his "M is for Magic" collection, and I picked up those two above yesterday for myself.

Robert McCammon's Mystery Walk
Shroud #7
Necrotic Tissue #8
Zombology
Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes
The final submissions for Through the Eyes of the Undead

It must be a writer thing to read so many different books and magazines at one time. I probably have half a dozen collections and anthologies that have bookmarks in them.