December 18, 200915 yr Author comment_40919 Reading that sdkdmd it reminded me of a small town called Twin Peaks!
December 19, 200915 yr comment_40955 Expecting it to arrive before Christmas, will let you know how it goes.
December 29, 200915 yr comment_41061 48. Necropolis by John Urbancik update 49. The ghosting Tide by Simon Clark and #50 to meet my goal for the year. The Watching by Paul Melniczek
December 30, 200915 yr Author comment_41062 50 books in a year, wow! I haven't finished The Great and Secret Show yet but have put it down for now and started to read The Gathering, the latest offering from the Wheel of Time. I was apprehensive as it's not writen by Robert Jordan so how could it be as good, but I NEED to know how it ends! I'm only about 100 pages in but the writing isn't actually bad. It's not RJ but it's not (so far anyway) spoiling it at all.
January 2, 201015 yr comment_41073 The great and secret show is absolutely amazing! Currently about to finish off Wizard's First Rule. It's not half bad! Thanks Legend of the Seeker TV show (which is totally amazing for 100% cheese). Next on my list will be either Dead Sea or Handling the Undead. Or 20th century Ghosts or The Graveyard Book. Then I have a couple of others I'd like to rip through on my holiday...
January 5, 201015 yr comment_41084 My first book of 2010. reading... 1. Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
February 9, 201015 yr comment_41226 In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town. Sorry sd but your description doesn't quite cut the mustard. Over the years i've read more than my fair share of horror/fantasy horror, everything from Herbert, Hutson, Koontz and King to our own Mr. Lumley. Black House in my opinion is one of the most graphic and descriptive books i've had the pleasure to read. Put it this way, you don't have to have much of an imagination do visualise the horror that the Fisherman wrought on French Landing and elsewhere. Having said all this though, Brian's work is still my favorite.
February 10, 201015 yr Author comment_41230 I preferred Weaveworld to Great and Secret Show. The Gathering Storm was really good, it didn't matter that it wasn't written by Robert Jordan, his characters still behaved pretty much the way I thought they should and the story was fantastic - especially towards the end. I did think there was a bit too much repetition and occasionally the speech was just a little off, but not enough for me to be put off. Am reading Harry and the Pirates now, just finished For the Dead Travel Slowly which was good, I enjoyed the brief return to Harry's childhood. Reading Dead Eddy now, which I've read before but not for ages.
February 10, 201015 yr comment_41232 1. Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker...struggled through 2. Dreams in Black & White by John R. Little...highly recommended, as with all John's books 3. The Damned by William Ollie...Ollie's first novel. Not to shabby. Like to see what's next reading 4. Primitive by JF Gonzalez It began as just another day for David Spires and his wife Tracy: coffee, breakfast, and getting the kids ready for school. Then the bottom dropped out of civilization. The world ends not with a bang or a whimper, but with a dizzying downward spiral. Instead of the rat race of commuters scurrying to beat the clock, humans are now packs of animals reduced to snarling primitives. David, Tracy and their daughter Emily, along with fellow survivors, leave Los Angeles for the safety of the country where fewer people means fewer primitives. But as they venture farther away from the city, they realize an unnatural force is at work. Civilization didn’t just fall apart…it was overtaken by an ancient evil that was present before the first cave paintings. Human history has no formal record of it, but the dark presence that’s fueled nightmares since time began has crept out of the shadows…and its influence is growing. Edited February 10, 201015 yr by sdkdmd
February 12, 201015 yr comment_41241 Just on the third book of the First Law trilogy by Joe Absalom. Well worth a read, dark, violent and quite nasty in places!
February 23, 201015 yr comment_41275 1. Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker...struggled through 2. Dreams in Black & White by John R. Little...highly recommended, as with all John's books 3. The Damned by William Ollie...Ollie's first novel. Not to shabby. Like to see what's next 4. Primitive by JF Gonzalez reading 5. Secrets by J. F. Gonzalez Just before Christmas, a blizzard strands five friends at the local watering hole. They plan on an uneventful night enjoying each others’ company as they wait out the storm. Everything changes when the stranger arrives. He knows each of their darkest secrets—secrets that he shouldn’t know, secrets that he threatens to reveal. Trapped in the bar, friends turn against each other as tensions increase as distrust and paranoia fester. And then they find the dead girl in the bathroom…
February 28, 201015 yr comment_41292 1. Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker...struggled through 2. Dreams in Black & White by John R. Little...highly recommended, as with all John's books 3. The Damned by William Ollie...Ollie's first novel. Not to shabby. Like to see what's next 4. Primitive by JF Gonzalez 5. Secrets by J. F. Gonzalez reading Boogaloos by Douglas E. Wright Crozier Buck's best years are behind him. Haunted by vivid visions of his long-dead love, Rebecca, he works a dead end job at the local post office. They watch... A few years from retirement, Crozier wants nothing more than to spend his remaining days in the dead letter department--out of sight and out of mind in the building's basement. They wait... In the dead letter department, something is waiting for Crozier...something that needs his unrealized abilities, something that is willing to kill to get them. They KILL... Crozier unwittingly awakens a dormant presence hell-bent on claiming a new guardian. And in its bloody wake, secrets will be revealed as he is forced to confront a frightening destiny.
March 1, 201015 yr comment_41299 On to the Song of Susannah in the Dark Tower nearly done with, not been the best as more just as a staging book it feels like....soon be done with it and on to the Dark tower it's self!
March 2, 201015 yr comment_41303 song of susannah was in my humble opinion the weakest of the series. Still good though
March 4, 201015 yr Author comment_41317 The Hidden Empire, The Saga of the Seven Suns Book 1 by Kevin J Anderson. It's a sci fi set in space with different races of beings having different agendas. It's ok so far.
March 4, 201015 yr comment_41324 I really enjoy sci fi movies, they're right there with horror, but I can't seem to get into reading sci fi. I have two coming in the mail. Got them in a sale at Wildside Press. Buy one book and get two sci fi novel for a penny, their choice. But they should be decent books. We'll see.
March 10, 201015 yr comment_41354 1. Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker 2. Dreams in Black & White by John R. Little 3. The Damned by William Ollie 4. Primitive by JF Gonzalez 5. Secrets by J.F.Gonzalez 6. Boogaloos by Douglas E. Wright 7. Sweet Things by Douglas E. Wright reading The Butcher of Box Hill & Monster Town by Logan Savile (Steve Savile & Brian M. Logan) This one leans towards the sci fi side. There's talk of a novel "Monster Town" I like to see where they take. MONSTER TOWN When down and out Monster Wrangler JD Enron accepts a missing persons assignment from the mysterious blonde with breasts you can ski down, he knows it’s something he’s going to regret. Especially as the job is going to take him back to Monster Town, the giant prison settlement in the New Mexico desert which houses all of America’s monsters. Be they Vampires, Werewolves, Gargoyles, Chupacabras, Moth Men, Zombies, Bigfoots or any of the other godless creature to have walked the Earth, Monster Town is the place where they all end up. And the one place you never want to go... THE BUTCHER OF BOX HILL JD Enron is having the time of his life. As a senior Monster Wrangler for the Brotherhood of the Hand (the clandestine off-shoot of the Catholic church hired by the US government to capture all of America’s monsters), he gets to hunt monsters on a daily basis. And JD really hates monsters. But when his latest mission takes him to the remote logging town of Box Hill, Montana, in the dead of winter, he soon discovers that not all monsters have fangs. And that freshly spilt blood looks so very different on snow…
March 10, 201015 yr comment_41355 Currently enjoying Lost Years Vol II on my re-read of the Necro Saga. And wouldn't you know it, I happened to time my re-read of the series perfectly with the new book coming out since it appears from the description it could have been called the Lost Years Vol 3.
March 11, 201015 yr comment_41357 Flying through The House of Doors, my first read. Then it's going to be somthing completely different an autobiography probably Jackie Stewart's, it's been on my shelf for 3 years past Christmas's. Then back to the deddy of them all Necroscope from the begining all the way through, should take me oh say 18 months and that's me pushing it.
March 16, 201015 yr Author comment_41384 I'm reading House of Doors too! Though not for the first time, I think this'll be about the 3rd time on this one.
March 20, 201015 yr comment_41448 1. Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker 2. Dreams in Black & White by John R. Little 3. The Damned by William Ollie 4. Primitive by JF Gonzalez 5. Secrets by J.F.Gonzalez 6. Boogaloos by Douglas E. Wright 7. Sweet Things by Douglas E. Wright 8. The Butcher of Box Hill & Monster Town by Logan Savile reading 9. The Haunted Forest Tour by James Moore & Jeff Strand Sit back and enjoy a smooth ride in air-conditioned comfort as your heavily armored tram takes you through nature's most astonishing creation. The forest is packed to capacity with dangerous and terrifying creatures of all shapes, sizes, and hunger levels, and you'll get to observe these wonders in complete safety. Howl with a werewolf! Gaze into the glowing eyes of a giant spider! Look right through a spooky ghost! See horrific monsters you couldn't even imagine, only inches away from you! Things with fangs, things with claws, things with dripping red jaws—you'll see them all! Not thrilling enough? Well, it's Halloween, and so we're offering a very special tour through the Haunted Forest. The new route goes deeper into the woods than any civilians have ventured before, and you're guaranteed to get a good scare! Rest assured that every possible security precaution has been taken. The Haunted Forest Tour has a 100% safety record, and technical difficulties are unheard of. You will be in no danger whatsoever. We promise.
April 16, 201015 yr comment_41638 1. Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker 2. Dreams in Black & White by John R. Little 3. The Damned by William Ollie 4. Primitive by JF Gonzalez 5. Secrets by J.F.Gonzalez 6. Boogaloos by Douglas E. Wright 7. Sweet Things by Douglas E. Wright 8. The Butcher of Box Hill & Monster Town by Logan Savile 9. The Haunted Forest Tour by James Moore & Jeff Strand reading The Girl in the Woods by David Jack Bell When Diana Greene leaves her hometown for a new life, she thinks she has left the past behind: her sister’s disappearance, her mother’s illness, and the visions Diana used to see…a clearing in the woods…a moonlit night…and human bones buried in the ground. And her past remains dormant until the day a mysterious woman appears on Diana’s doorstep, promising Diana something she can’t resist. “If you help me find my missing daughter, I’ll tell you what happened to your sister.” Soon Diana is digging into the past, uncovering secrets the town has long since buried, secrets that the powerful wish would stay hidden. But when another girl disappears and the visions return to Diana with a vengeance, she knows she is on the brink of solving more than just a few missing person’s cases. She is on the brink of discovering the dark and violent covenant that the town itself was founded upon.
April 17, 201015 yr comment_41640 Centuries-old villains, vat creations, sick mutations, teleportation, all rooted in "mythical" history. Sounds very Necroscope, huh? Dean Koontz has become a bit of a pu**y in the past few years, but if anyone here enjoys the Necroscope novels I recommend a look at Koontz's take on Frankenstein. Three books, all great...
