Books

[Faust]

I'll have to give him a shot. I loved "Books of Magic" and "Sandman" back in my comic book days. How many novels has he written?

 

Here a list of his essential books :

- Neverwhere (his best IMO)

- American Gods

- Stardust

- Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)

- Smoke And Mirror (short novels compilation)

- his latest I've mentionned above

He also wrote great novels for kids...

(American Gods & Neverwhere are strongly recommanded)

 

 

(Neil has also written a concept album for Alice Cooper 'Last temptation' and a lot of lyrics for Tori Amos....)

[Geoff]

Currently reading 'Conversations in a brothel'. It was quite interesting, but it's losing a bit of it's charm as it drags on.

 

I would recommend Jenna Jameson's 'How to make love like a porn star' (I think. Was that the title???) to anyone. On par with Motley Crue's 'The Dirt'. Man I loved those 2 books.

[Faust]

For all the 80's lovers :

"All-American ads of the 80's" is a 600 pages book entire dedicated to the 80's... No text, only full pictures ... Looks like a "fast rewind journey" : http://www.taschen.de/pages/en/catalogue/b...facts/03388.htm

Just ordered mine...

 

IF YOU LOVE 80's PLEASE REPLY NOW.

[Swazi]

For all the 80's lovers :

"All-American ads of the 80's" is a 600 pages book entire dedicated to the 80's... No text, only full pictures ... Looks like a "fast rewind journey" : http://www.taschen.de/pages/en/catalogue/b...facts/03388.htm

Just ordered mine...

 

IF YOU LOVE 80's PLEASE REPLY NOW.

 

Seems like a good one ! Thanks !!

 

I might get it for a friend as a birthday present.

[Rick]

Mostly I read James Patterson. His Alex Cross books are great, especially the earlier ones. His more recent Cross books have been hit and miss. He also has a series about a woman detective named Lindsey Boxer. I just finished the fifth installment. If you don't know who Patterson is, "Kiss The Girls" and "Along Came a Spider" were both movies.

 

I'm currently reading Runaway Jury. Somehow I seem to have never seen the movie, so I figured I would read the book first. Good stuff.

[Fat Freddy]

Mostly I read James Patterson. His Alex Cross books are great, especially the earlier ones. His more recent Cross books have been hit and miss. He also has a series about a woman detective named Lindsey Boxer. I just finished the fifth installment. If you don't know who Patterson is, "Kiss The Girls" and "Along Came a Spider" were both movies.

 

Patterson is excellent... but he cranks out so many books that I can't keep up! I fell behind quite a while ago and it will take me forever to catch up with his stuff. The Alex Cross series are great, I prefer the novels to the movies. Nothin' against Morgan Freeman, he's a great actor, but I think he's too old to play the Cross character. I started reading the books before I saw the film version of either "Kiss the Girls" or "Along Came A Spider," and at that time I pictured him younger. I imagined him looking more like Eriq LaSalle (who played Dr. Benton on "ER" for many years).

[Blue Charvel]

Mostly I read James Patterson. His Alex Cross books are great, especially the earlier ones. His more recent Cross books have been hit and miss. He also has a series about a woman detective named Lindsey Boxer. I just finished the fifth installment. If you don't know who Patterson is, "Kiss The Girls" and "Along Came a Spider" were both movies.

 

Patterson is excellent... but he cranks out so many books that I can't keep up! I fell behind quite a while ago and it will take me forever to catch up with his stuff. The Alex Cross series are great, I prefer the novels to the movies. Nothin' against Morgan Freeman, he's a great actor, but I think he's too old to play the Cross character. I started reading the books before I saw the film version of either "Kiss the Girls" or "Along Came A Spider," and at that time I pictured him younger. I imagined him looking more like Eriq LaSalle (who played Dr. Benton on "ER" for many years).

 

You pictured Morgan Freeman looking more like Eriq LaSalle?

 

I just remembered another guy I've read a few good books by is John Lescroart. He writes some killer crime fiction based in San Francisco. The main character in the two books I've read is a half Black/half Jewish police detective (no, he doesn't walk into a bar and this isn't a joke... ). Good stuff, very believable and some good suspense.

[Fat Freddy]

You pictured Morgan Freeman looking more like Eriq LaSalle?

 

Har de Har... no, I pictured Alex Cross looking more like LaSalle, wise guy. When I read the first couple of novels, Cross has a couple of young kids, his Grandma lives in his house with him, and from that I just pictured him as someone a little younger than Morgan Freeman.

[Blue Charvel]

You pictured Morgan Freeman looking more like Eriq LaSalle?

 

Har de Har... no, I pictured Alex Cross looking more like LaSalle, wise guy. When I read the first couple of novels, Cross has a couple of young kids, his Grandma lives in his house with him, and from that I just pictured him as someone a little younger than Morgan Freeman.

 

Sorry man, I am a wise guy. My wife is often equally amused... not...

[Fat Freddy]

Sorry man, I am a wise guy. My wife is often equally amused... not...

 

I bow to your superior wisdom. I am not sufficiently caffeinated yet this morning to match wits with you, Charvel-san

[Nick C]

Right now I'm reading

 

Winter in Eden by Harry Harrison - book two of the Eden Sci Fi trilogy.

 

and

 

Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling - Loads of short weird / odd little tales written between 1640 - 1715 (the years not the times!) hahaha!

[Blue Charvel]

Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling - Loads of short weird / odd little tales written between 1640 - 1715 (the years not the times!) hahaha!

 

But you admit they could have been written at those times...

[Bubbasmama]

Right now I'm reading

 

Winter in Eden by Harry Harrison - book two of the Eden Sci Fi trilogy.

 

and

 

Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling - Loads of short weird / odd little tales written between 1640 - 1715 (the years not the times!) hahaha!

 

THERE he is.....I was about to start a thread askin' where the hell you were, Nick!!!

 

Don't scare Mama like that, just takin' off. I worry.....

[Nick C]

Right now I'm reading

 

Winter in Eden by Harry Harrison - book two of the Eden Sci Fi trilogy.

 

and

 

Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling - Loads of short weird / odd little tales written between 1640 - 1715 (the years not the times!) hahaha!

 

THERE he is.....I was about to start a thread askin' where the hell you were, Nick!!!

 

Don't scare Mama like that, just takin' off. I worry.....

Hahaha! Don't worry yerself none...I've been on hols for last few weeks and have had precious little time to get to the PC so visits to HH have been fleeting to say the least. Back to work Tuesday so normal service should be resumed around then

[swriter]

just got 3 books for my bday

 

Anansi boys---Gaiman

Messenger--Silva

Judge and Jury---Patterson

 

just started Judge and Jury, very very good, can't seem to put it down!!!!!

[Lobo]

Reading 2 books at this time

 

The complete Narnia series...all seven in one large book....loved it as a kid....saw the movie and wanted to relive my childhood

 

Good Omens....again...got the urge after reading this thread...

[hsf]

For a while there, I was tearing through books left and right.

 

Not quite as much now, but still as often as I can set myself down with some time.

 

I'm a huge biography fan. (Everything from Vince Lombardi to Elvis and anything in between. I seem to go for the ones that have SOMETHING to do with an entertainment genre (including sports here). Anyone who's read the wrestling thread also knows of my love for bios of wrestlers/former wrestlers.)

 

I think I enjoy non-fiction much more than fiction. I also read a lot of real life stories. Just finished one called Chasing Daylight (by Eugene O'Kelly) about a man's knowledge of his impending death and how it changed the last few months of his life. I've also read a few legal/crime novels about real life events. I just started a book, The South Was Right, about how the South should have been allowed to secede from the Union before of the Civil War and how historical precedents back their arguments. Sounds interesting.

 

My favorite fiction, so far, is the Burke series of novels from author Andrew H. Vachss. I only have read half the series, and not in order, but they're pretty good. (Any guy who's so good as an author that a porn star takes a variation of his last name as her stage name can't be bad at all, right? )

[JustJason]

I am reading Angel and Demons by the same auther of The Da Vinci Code. I just finished a book about Lucha Libre. Amazing picutures of old time Mexican wrestling and few articles sprinkled in. Next up is Bobby Heenan's biography.

[Nick C]

Right now I'm reading the complete graphic novel of Bone by Jeff Smith (it arrived today thru the post and it's as fat as a fat grub that's eaten lots of lettuce leaves)

 

and

 

Frankenstein - According to Spike Milligan

[Faust]

Just start to read Tim Powers 'The Anubis Gates'. Firt chapters are really awesome !

 

"Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback. In his brief introduction, Ramsey Campbell sets The Anubis Gates in an adventure context, citing Powers's achievement of "extraordinary scenes of underground horror, of comedy both high and grotesque, of bizarre menace, of poetic fantasy."

[aMetalhead1966]

Just Finished Pryor Convictions and other Life Sentences...Richard

Pryor's autobiography...Very Cool!!

[Nick C]

Just start to read Tim Powers 'The Anubis Gates'. Firt chapters are really awesome !

 

"Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback. In his brief introduction, Ramsey Campbell sets The Anubis Gates in an adventure context, citing Powers's achievement of "extraordinary scenes of underground horror, of comedy both high and grotesque, of bizarre menace, of poetic fantasy."

 

 

Nice one Chris....Have you read his book On Stranger Tides? It's brilliant, one of my favourite books ever ...plus there's loadsa pirates in it.

[Faust]

Nice one Chris....Have you read his book On Stranger Tides? It's brilliant, one of my favourite books ever ...plus there's loadsa pirates in it.

 

No Nick, it's the first book which I read of this author... I've often heard about him, but never read any of his books before Anubis Gates... It's excellent ! I think i will looking forward to his other books... I like pirates stories !

[Nick C]

Nice one Chris....Have you read his book On Stranger Tides? It's brilliant, one of my favourite books ever ...plus there's loadsa pirates in it.

 

No Nick, it's the first book which I read of this author... I've often heard about him, but never read any of his books before Anubis Gates... It's excellent ! I think i will looking forward to his other books... I like pirates stories !

 

Yeah pirates rule ahahahaha.....it's a great read full of voodoo and spooky stuff.

[Faust]

Yeah pirates rule ahahahaha.....it's a great read full of voodoo and spooky stuff.

 

Seems pretty good :freak: ! I like great epic adventures novels with a slice of fantasy/fantastic (like Edgar Rice Burroughs, or Abraham Merritt...) Right after The Anubis Gates, i will try this one. Thanks for the tips Nick !