Your nose is buried in...?

**Vavara the Hag** · January 22nd, 2002, 05:28 PM

Been working too hard since xmas but have been off for a few days so have caught up well on my reading [img]smile.gif[/img]
Read "The Worlds of Chrestomanci" by Diana Wynne Jones. Its a series of 5 books not unlike Harry Potter but the first one was originally released in 1977.
Ahhhh, kiddies books dontcha just love 'em

Then I moved on to Ben Elton's "Dead Famous" which I loved and read in a few hours. It is a brilliant send up of Big Brother where one of the housemates gets topped.

Just about to start "The Store" by Bentley Little so that should keep me out of mischief for a while!

Jen

**Jason of Khem** · January 26th, 2002, 05:34 PM

Just reading "The New Lovecraft Circle" which contains 2 rare BL stories, The Kiss of Bugg-Shash & The Statement of One John Gibson.

**topol_sheap** · January 27th, 2002, 11:52 AM

just reading From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell... very good so far!

**The Bloody Lady** · January 28th, 2002, 09:48 AM

Robin Hobb, The Assassins Apprentice

really kewl for those who love fantasy

**topol_sheap** · January 29th, 2002, 07:21 AM

Just to be completely off topic, but it tickled me.... Scarlet, I thought you wrote "Robin Hood, The Assassins Apprentice", which I thought was a bit weird.... had to look twice there!

**SpOOkshow** · January 29th, 2002, 07:13 PM

Ok - so it's been a while, but since last time I've read:

"The Door into Summer" by Robert Heinlein - nice, fuzzy sci-fi.
"The Alien Years" and "The Tower of Glass" by Robert Silverburg - really good intelligent stuff - I may well be making more room on my shelves for this fella's books.
"Whit" by Iain Banks. Another fantastic trip into the Bank's Hall of Mirrors. Excellent stuff.

There's probably more...but I'm damned if I can remember.

A question for Tops too. "From Hell"? Is it worth the £25 price tag that I saw this week. It looks damn interesting, but I couldn't shell out that kind of money on a feeling...

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**topol_sheap** · January 30th, 2002, 07:23 AM

Spook,

Get it on amazon.co.uk for £17.50... I thought that the £25 price tag was excessive, but if you've read any alan moore stuff and enjoyed it, then you wont be in bad company. I haven;t finished it yet... it's long, and I am reading some technical books as well and Khai... but what I've read so far is amazing, and the art really suits that era of London... it kind of reminds me of Anno Dracula, although with out Dracula...

HTH

TOps

**Mike C** · February 1st, 2002, 04:41 PM

Almost finished The Wolfs Hour by Robert R McCammon... recommended by my buddy Canker quite a while ago. Very good book!

**Exsanguinator** · February 16th, 2002, 02:58 PM

Just re-reading Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series starting with a copy of To Your Scattered Bodies Go recently re-aquired in Manchester...

Alex Proyas (of The Crow and Dark City fame) is making an adaptation of it for the Sci-Fi Channel in the US - can only be better than the Dune remake last year...

**SpOOkshow** · February 16th, 2002, 09:38 PM

Last week, I read the excellent Kim Newman's "The Night Mayor" - choc full of film noir stuff and weird dreams.

Then - shock of shocks - I read something without vampires, or Hideous Alien Gods from Beyond. No magic, no ghoulies or ghosties. It was something of a change of pace for me, I can tell you.
I read Mario Puzo's "The Godfather", and I can't recommend it enough. Really easy read, and a definate "can't put down".

To make up for my foray into Normality, this week I'm reading another recently acquired Kim Newman, "Bad Dreams". Now, thankfully, this IS suitably weird...

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**JB_Lestat** · February 16th, 2002, 10:10 PM

I'm on about the 10th page of Khai of Ancient Khem... by the Master himself...

Great as always so far... no spoilers though eh??

**Canker** · February 17th, 2002, 12:04 AM

I have that book thanks to mon frere, Deano.

and I will be getting to it soon. I have to finish the third and last installment of Titus Crow.
I finished the first two novels lately and now I am on "Moons of Borea".

**Spike** · February 17th, 2002, 12:43 PM

I've been reading alot lately, I've managed to get rid of my "Harrypotteritis" and have moved swiftly on to read The Lord of the Rings. I also have The Master's Beneath The Moors complilation to read. I can't Wait.

Spawn

**pinhead** · February 17th, 2002, 01:47 PM

i'm reading Psychosphere and then Psychamok

and the winner....is

**Lagula Longarm** · February 18th, 2002, 12:38 PM

If this post upsets anyone, I will appologise now but......I have just attempted to read Peter Straub's Floating Dragon....what a load of c**p, I had to give up a quater way through, which I hate to do, but I couldn't stand it any longer. The basic story line was Okay, but all the chopping and changing from one family to another over the years bored me witless. Once again sorry to all you people who like Straub, but he's not for me

On a brighter note I am now half way through Dagons Bell, aaarrrrggghhhhh now thats more like it

**Nathan** · February 20th, 2002, 11:37 AM

Yup. Straub can be a very boring author.

Even on his collaberations with King you can tell which parts he wrote by how disjointed and rambling they are... of course in Black House they say they took on each other's writing style to throw readers off...

My question is, if Straub can write like King on command, why doesn't he do it all the time?

Maybe then he wouldn't need King to help boost his career.

I said in another thread that I'm reading Koontz' new one, One Door Away from Heaven. It's typical but still good.

Beautiful 28 year old woman with problems.

Young handicapped girl with major problems.

A motherless boy on the run from some unseen predator.

A private detective caught up in it all who will most likely fall for the woman and together (after escaping their horrible fates) they will raise the girl as their own.

And of course, the obligatory smarter-than-average dog.

**Lagula Longarm** · February 20th, 2002, 04:02 PM

Phew, cheers N8, and I thought it was just me who found him difficult to read.

**VonDarkmoor** · February 21st, 2002, 07:35 AM

what am i reading at the moment.

well im concentrating on Phillip Pullman books at the moment. Having finished "dark materials" trilogy. ive started on the victorian england novels by the same author. so far ive completed, the "ruby in the smoke" and "im now on the shadow in the north". These books are based around the same time period as "jack the ripper". Are kind of detective novels with mystery and drama. very good if you fancy a historical romp round london.

**topol_sheap** · February 21st, 2002, 11:30 AM

currently I am reading the Tomb by F Paul Wilson. it seems good, and I only picked it up as I was back in hospital this week and needed a trashy book to read... seems quite good, but in the same style as The Keep... may read more of his stuff, but still unsure.. we'll see.

**SpOOkshow** · February 28th, 2002, 08:06 PM

Currently speeding through Iain M. Banks' "Use of Weapons". More top sci-fi.

I have something coming up called "Slaughtermatic" - but that was a 'Spur-of-the-moment' buy, and I'm damned if I can remember the authors name.

My girlfriend snagged me a copy of the "From Hell" graphic novel last week. I'm reading it, piece by tiny piece, every night. Damn good, it is too!

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