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Hmmm, I prefer King 100 times over Koontz. I don't mind Koontz and my mum swears by his stuff, but I didn't really dig it at all. I've only read a few, but found them all similar (some lame chase story with monsters) and I just never got into any of the books. King, however, floors me with most novels. 'Bag of Bones' is a HUGE fave of mine.

 

Another one I also really like is Richard Laymon. He also follows pretty similar patterns too, but I love reading his stuff.

 

And thanks for the tips Pete. Now that I think of it I tried that once. Not sure how it turned out. I'll make it a mission to dedicate some more time to making it happen again.

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Tim Powers 'Delacre'

 

:popcorn:"When university professor Andrew Hale receives a message in an old war-time code, he must drop the normal life he's been building for fourteen years, flee undercover to Whitehall in London, and re-start his terminated career as an agent in the most covert section of Her Majesty's Secret Service.

 

The year is 1963, and various elements from Hale's renounced past are assembling in Beirut - Kim Philby, the one-time British counter-espionage chief, who has turned out to have been a Soviet mole all his life; and the beautiful Elena Ceniza-Bendiga, variously a Comintern soldier in the Spanish Civil War, an agent of the French Deuxieme Bureau, and now perhaps a solo operator bent on revenge; and their plans are centered around an imminent covert Soviet expedition back to the Ark on Mount Ararat, where they all nearly killed each other fourteen years ago.

 

From the corridors of Whitehall to Bedouin camps in the Arabian Desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's story involves T. E. Lawrence, the Dead Sea Scrolls, supernatural entities from the Thousand and One Nights, high international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft - and leads inexorably to a deadly confrontation between Hale and Kim Philby on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark."

 

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Last night I pulled my box of old comic books out of the closet and re-read a bunch of oldies but goodies... does that count??

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Last night I pulled my box of old comic books out of the closet and re-read a bunch of oldies but goodies... does that count??

Hell yes ! That count !

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I'm reading 'Carrion Comfort' by Dan Simmons - it's huge, but excellent. Holidays are great for reading... hard to find the time outside of them. :( I also read 'Marley and Me' by John someone because my wife loves it and I thought I'd see what it's all about. Very nice read actually. Sad, though.

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Too lazy to go upstairs and check the title for sure but I believe it's called "Talon of the Silver Hawk" and it's written by Raymond E. Feist who writes KICKASS fantasy novels.

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Too lazy to go upstairs and check the title for sure but I believe it's called "Talon of the Silver Hawk" and it's written by Raymond E. Feist who writes KICKASS fantasy novels.

 

Hey Pete I love Raymond Feist too ! His Midkemya's fantasy novels are GREAT ! (The Chronicles Of Krondor, awesome books !)

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Too lazy to go upstairs and check the title for sure but I believe it's called "Talon of the Silver Hawk" and it's written by Raymond E. Feist who writes KICKASS fantasy novels.

 

Hey Pete I love Raymond Feist too ! His Midkemya's fantasy novels are GREAT ! (The Chronicles Of Krondor, awesome books !)

 

Very true! I had stopped reading his stuff after I finished everything he wrote. That was a few years ago and I see he's got all new stuff for me to devour. Just finished the above last night, can't wait to get to the rest of the series!

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still reading three at a time

 

Judge and Jury--James Patterson

Anansi Boys-Neil Gaiman

The Messenger-Danial Silvia

 

and just got

 

Moondust--Andrew Smith

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Just finished Headhunter by Michael Slade. Struggled to get through it; there were times I was so bored reading it, I was tempted to cut off my own head.

 

Currently reading 13 Bullets by David Wellington, a totally brutal, kickass revamping of the vampire mythos. This is the second book by Wellington I've picked up, the first being Monster Island, which was a classic gory zombie story. A great author for horror fans who like it hard-hitting, graphic, and with lots of action.

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I read an excelent book called The God Part Of The Brain, it's almost 15 years of scientific research done on why people believe in god, and the fact humans are the only species in exsistence that is aware of it's own mortality, very very thought provoking and educational, I couldnt put it down, but I get into books of that sort.

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James Morrow's Towing Jehovah

 

:popcorn: : God is dead. "Died and fell into the sea." That's what Raphael, a despondent angel with luminous white wings and a blinking halo, tells Anthony Van Horne on his fiftieth birthday.

Soon Van Horne is charged with captaining the supertanker Carpco Valparaiso (flying the colors of the Vatican) as it tows the two-mile-long corpse through the Atlantic toward the Arctic, in order to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition. Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, an estranged father, sabotage both natural and spiritual, a crew on (and sometimes past) the brink of mutiny, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas.

 

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The Dirt....My third time reading it...Love it...

 

dude, ive already that 3 times and im gonna read it again pretty soon, awesome book!

 

i was in the middle of Kent Family Chronicles IV: The Titans by John Jakes....

 

But now im Reading A Little Bit On The Side by Jasper Carrott

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