Some Stephen Graham Jones, Baer, Korpon, Ross, Thomas, Donald Ray Pollack, and Bukowski. Amazon and B&N gift cards so I'm excited to devour these beasts.
Class Facilitator
ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigDecember 28, 2011 - 10:34am
I got a nice stack of books from the in-laws and Husband for Christmas. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson, The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal, and The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde.
I also picked up a few used books in Oxford: Close Range, short stories by Anne Proulx, Espedaire Street by Iain Banks and Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.December 28, 2011 - 10:42am
Just got Miles from Nowhere, by Nami Mun in the mail. I'm reading so many books in a row that they are starting to blend together.
Also Atomic Robo on my Kindle Fire. Damn, I love me some comic books on that thing.
PopeyeDoyle
December 28, 2011 - 10:45am
I've wound up buying so many books the last couple of months that last night I had to make a list of books to finish reading before I'm allowed to buy anymore: Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, El Narco, Solo Faces, Warmed and Bound, Howdunit: Writer's Guide to Police Procedure, Lonestar Noir, Best American Noir, Gardens of Night, Best American Crime Reporting, Dermaphoria, Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Puglist at Rest, American Masculine, and The Swerve.....I seem to be more addicted to buying books than to reading them :(
Dean Blake
from Australia is reading generationend.comDecember 29, 2011 - 6:15am
The Steve Jobs biography.
.
December 29, 2011 - 10:41am
Slaughter House 5.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonDecember 29, 2011 - 11:43am
Man, I loved Slaughter House 5. I read it in one day. I couldn't put it down.
I'm trying to think of what to spend this $25 B&N Gift Card on... I was kind of thinking Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Jay.SJ
from London is reading Warmed and BoundDecember 29, 2011 - 11:47am
Just ordered the journal of Bust down the door and eat all the chickens. Also, the neverenders by Michael sonbert.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonDecember 30, 2011 - 6:34am
I ended up ordering:
By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends by J. David Osborne
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Please Do Not Shoot Me In The Face by Bradley Sands
Anybody who hasn't read Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley should check it out. It's a great story and hilarious.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryDecember 30, 2011 - 2:21pm
A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
The Elephant Vanishes by Murakami
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
I shouldn't even have these books. I've got a backlog sitting on shelves all over the house. My wife looks at them and suggests reading them. But, you know, I see books sitting on shelves that aren't my shelves and think, "Fuck, I've gotta get that before it ceases to exist and I never get the chance to own it." So I buy it and take it home and put it on my shelf.
In order to step away from this habit, I bought a Nook a couple days ago. I have put two books on it, one novel and one anthology. I think I can control myself. I am the little engine that could.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonDecember 30, 2011 - 3:07pm
That's funny because I feel the same way. Book are going out of print so often, I always have to scoop them up while I can. haha
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.December 30, 2011 - 5:32pm
You can never have too many books. That's like saying you can get your fill of blowjobs, nonsense I say! Blowjobs for everyone, I mean books.
Limbless K9
from Oregon is reading WraeththuDecember 30, 2011 - 10:35pm
I just bought The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. After reading his essay and the first few pages of that book I hit the buy button instantly. It should be at my house soon.
Jason C
from Quad Cities, Iowa is reading Growing Up Dead In Texas by Stephen Graham JonesDecember 31, 2011 - 2:50pm
Volt by Alan Heathcock
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedJanuary 1, 2012 - 8:10am
Pretty much every book by C. G. Chesterfield.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestJanuary 2, 2012 - 7:58pm
Went to Half Price Books this evening and picked up the following:
1. The Lost - Jack Ketchum
2. Try Fear - James Scott Bell
3. Try Darkness - James Scott Bell
4. Granta Family Book circa 1997 featuring a short by Bret Easton Ellis
5. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror circa 2009
6. Las Vegas Noir
7. These Guns for Hire: 31 Short Stories about Hit Men
Last week, picked up:
1. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
2. Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
3. Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
4. Lights Out - Jason Starr
5. The Little Sleep - Paul Tremblay
6 Money for Nothing - Donald E. Westlake
Gots me some serious reading to do...
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchJanuary 2, 2012 - 8:18pm
I need to do less cooking/housework and more reading/writing (I don't want to be a Victorian woman!!). Still not finished The Marriage Plot, and I'm also reading Correction by Thomas Bernhard. And I bought about 20 books in the last month or so! Most of them from what LitReactoreians said they liked.
CStodd
from NY is reading Annie Prouxl's Fine Just the Way It IsJanuary 2, 2012 - 8:21pm
The Visible Man, Chuck Klosterman. Really liked Downtown Owl, so we'll see.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.January 2, 2012 - 9:35pm
I love Half-Price books! Their clearance wall has like one and two dollar books and they are popular books not like obscure crap that no one would read.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestJanuary 3, 2012 - 1:11am
Yeah, Half price is good. The clearance wall is where I found the two Bell books. I've gotten a lot of my Stephen King books from the clearance shelf.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.January 3, 2012 - 1:36am
I got a Dean Koontz book for a dollar. Yes, I read Dean Koontz, he is my one guilty pleasure. Although he essentially writes the same story over and over. Also got a weird Orson Scott Card book, I was expecting sci-fi and it turns out to be the one book he wrote about child abuse.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJanuary 3, 2012 - 5:56am
You know, I liked one Dean Koontz book. The one about the talking dog? Not that bad. Although its been awhile.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJanuary 3, 2012 - 12:19pm
@Averydoll: I agree. Watchers was pretty good. But every movie they tried to make of it was really, really terrible. Really terrible.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJanuary 3, 2012 - 1:04pm
Watchers! Yeah, that's the one. I didn't know they made a movie of it. I can't imagine it being good.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonJanuary 14, 2012 - 9:20pm
My school textbooks that I haven't bought yet.
And:
By Steve Aylett
- The Crime Studio
- Atom
- Novahead
Mostly because I own Slaughtermatic and I didn't know that it was the 2nd book in the Beerlight books series. And then I thought - I might as well buy them all.
Also bought by Bradley Sands:
- My Heart Said No, But The Camera Crew Said Yes!
- Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy
Now I think I own all of Bradley's books that are available. :)
Dan Shewan
from Boston, MA is reading Crime and PunishmentJanuary 15, 2012 - 6:06am
Just ordered Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman, House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski and The Outlaw Album: Stories by Daniel Woodrell last night.
dcronin
from Melbourne, Australia is reading Paying For It - Chester BrownJanuary 15, 2012 - 6:32am
Hi all,
I'm new here. First post.
I just did a big order which will keep me busy for the next couple of months
David Foster Wallace - Brief interviews with Hideous Men
Donald Ray Pollock - Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock - The Devil All the Time
Don DeLillo - Falling Man
Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Looking forward to them!!!
Nighty Nite
from NJ is reading Grimscribe: His Lives and WorksJanuary 15, 2012 - 8:18am
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesJanuary 15, 2012 - 10:17pm
kurt vonnegut -- look at the birdie (short stories)
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.January 15, 2012 - 10:58pm
If you like Neil Gaiman and haven't read these books, then I advice you to look into them. They are awesome.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesJanuary 18, 2012 - 8:44pm
@hetch:
ok lets see. I got a big amazon gift card and I got the following:
Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
Warmed & Bound: Velvet Anthology
Scott Wolven: Controlled Burn
Paul Malmont: The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
Craig Davidson: The Fighter
Craig Davison: Rust & Bone
Charlie Huston: The Mystic Art of Erasing All Signs Of Death
Christa Faust: Choke Hold
Pollocks: The Devil All The Time
that's one hell of an awesome list.
just got a box of PKD off ebay: Valis, Ubik, Three Stigmata..., Do Androids..., Radio Free Albemuth, The Divine Invasion and two short story collections of his.
AND, just hit up Myopic Books in Chicago where I picked up two by Cormac: Suttree and Child of God.
just got a box of Xmas love in the mail too, Amazon gift card with William Gay's The Long Home AND Provinces of the Night, Woodrell's Winter's Bone and Cormac's Outer Dark.
PopeyeDoyle
January 18, 2012 - 8:43pm
I just did a big order which will keep me busy for the next couple of months
David Foster Wallace - Brief interviews with Hideous Men
Donald Ray Pollock - Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock - The Devil All the Time
Don DeLillo - Falling Man
Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
You, my friend, have good taste.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.January 18, 2012 - 8:45pm
I'm reading the autobiography of Malcolm X. God, white people suck!
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJanuary 18, 2012 - 8:49pm
That can be construed as a not-so-subtle come-on.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.January 18, 2012 - 8:52pm
You can suck it, Utah lol
No but seriously, I see why he was so angry at white people. His childhood was fucked up. It's sad to think people could get away with so much back then. Literally his teacher called him a n-word to his face, his guidance counselor in school told him he could never be a lawyer because he was black.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJanuary 18, 2012 - 8:55pm
I was told I could never play basketball just because I'm white and have no talent for the sport. But we persevere. Look at me now! Working in construction.
Jay.SJ
from London is reading Warmed and BoundJanuary 19, 2012 - 1:44am
Unfortunately Danny, that's just how it was. The shocking thing is they probably didn't even think they were being racist, just talking to second class citizens. Is shocking.
I got sent some PDFs from Deadite Press including: Zombies and shit by Carlton Mellick III, Ghoul by Brian Keene and The Haunter Of The Threshold by Edward Lee.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJanuary 19, 2012 - 5:58am
I was told I couldn't be a brain surgeon because I'm dyslexic. It was on that day that I realized the human brain actually had the parts of the brain written on it, in English. It's also the day I went on a hunt for dyslexic brain surgeons - of which there are many. Keep in mind I was told this whenI was 27 and already had no intentions of becoming any sort of doctor.
I just bought Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by Salinger. I've read it before, but I didn't own it. Now I caught 'em all!
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyJanuary 19, 2012 - 9:02am
I scored an edition of Day By Day Armageddon that was self published by JL Bourne. Some have said they're hard to come by.
Also got a papery copy of The Road, my digital copy is about worn out.
PopeyeDoyle
January 19, 2012 - 9:06am
I scored an edition of Day By Day Armageddon that was self published by JL Bourne. Some have said they're hard to come by.
Awesome book. The sequel was somewhat of a letdown, but the original is fantastic.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyJanuary 19, 2012 - 9:20am
@Pop, I agree. I wasn't a fan of zombie stories until I read DBDA. I haven't read many others, but nothing has compared so far.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.January 19, 2012 - 1:45pm
TwistedPaper
from Poland is reading "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe & "Seven Wonders" by Adam ChristopherJanuary 19, 2012 - 2:47pm
Sean Williams "Metal Fatigue". Totally unexpected buy, I've never heard anything about it before.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeJanuary 19, 2012 - 7:53pm
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness
Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesJanuary 20, 2012 - 8:22pm
kurt vonnegut - welcome to the monkey house
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.January 20, 2012 - 8:36pm
Fuck, I love Welcome to the Monkey House. Those are some tight short stories. So many brilliant ones. They are the kind that I end up talking about at parties because someone will bring up a social subject (birth control, equal rights, WMDs, .... thomas edison?) and I'll say, "I read this short story by Kurt Vonnegut..." and I'll go off telling one of his stories from that book.
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesJanuary 20, 2012 - 8:49pm
we're reading mister bergeron for a class, and it wasnt in the back issue of the text i bought, but if those stories are even *as* good as what i read so far in look at the birdie, then im excited.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.January 20, 2012 - 9:13pm
They are even better, in my opinion, but that was the first Vonnegut I ever read... so it's got that special place in my heart.
JameseyLefebure
from Liverpool, Uk is reading The Gunslinger- Stephen KingJanuary 21, 2012 - 4:29am
I went shopping yesterday after a complete fucker of a day and took out my frustration on my bank balance and came home with a good few books that i've been meaning to buy for ages.
I got
1, The Strain by Guilmero Del Torro (I wont even attempt to say I can spell his name!) which is a vampire trilogy (recently made into a comic i'm reading as well frm Dark Horse).
2. 11.22.63 by Stephen King (aka GOD).
3. The Talisman Graphic Novel.
4. The Dark Tower:The Fall Of Gilead graphic novel :)
Now I just need some actual time to sit down and read them!
Sam Sturdivant
from Hayward, Ca is reading MurphyJanuary 21, 2012 - 11:52am
I'm about to order 29 different books I need this semester, later this week. Couldn't list them all from memory, but here's an incomplete list of them.
Some Stephen Graham Jones, Baer, Korpon, Ross, Thomas, Donald Ray Pollack, and Bukowski. Amazon and B&N gift cards so I'm excited to devour these beasts.
I got a nice stack of books from the in-laws and Husband for Christmas. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson, The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal, and The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde.
I also picked up a few used books in Oxford: Close Range, short stories by Anne Proulx, Espedaire Street by Iain Banks and Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
Just got Miles from Nowhere, by Nami Mun in the mail. I'm reading so many books in a row that they are starting to blend together.
Also Atomic Robo on my Kindle Fire. Damn, I love me some comic books on that thing.
I've wound up buying so many books the last couple of months that last night I had to make a list of books to finish reading before I'm allowed to buy anymore: Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, El Narco, Solo Faces, Warmed and Bound, Howdunit: Writer's Guide to Police Procedure, Lonestar Noir, Best American Noir, Gardens of Night, Best American Crime Reporting, Dermaphoria, Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Puglist at Rest, American Masculine, and The Swerve.....I seem to be more addicted to buying books than to reading them :(
The Steve Jobs biography.
Slaughter House 5.
Man, I loved Slaughter House 5. I read it in one day. I couldn't put it down.
I'm trying to think of what to spend this $25 B&N Gift Card on... I was kind of thinking Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Just ordered the journal of Bust down the door and eat all the chickens. Also, the neverenders by Michael sonbert.
I ended up ordering:
By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends by J. David Osborne
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Please Do Not Shoot Me In The Face by Bradley Sands
Anybody who hasn't read Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley should check it out. It's a great story and hilarious.
A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
The Elephant Vanishes by Murakami
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
I shouldn't even have these books. I've got a backlog sitting on shelves all over the house. My wife looks at them and suggests reading them. But, you know, I see books sitting on shelves that aren't my shelves and think, "Fuck, I've gotta get that before it ceases to exist and I never get the chance to own it." So I buy it and take it home and put it on my shelf.
In order to step away from this habit, I bought a Nook a couple days ago. I have put two books on it, one novel and one anthology. I think I can control myself. I am the little engine that could.
That's funny because I feel the same way. Book are going out of print so often, I always have to scoop them up while I can. haha
You can never have too many books. That's like saying you can get your fill of blowjobs, nonsense I say! Blowjobs for everyone, I mean books.
I just bought The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. After reading his essay and the first few pages of that book I hit the buy button instantly. It should be at my house soon.
Volt by Alan Heathcock
Pretty much every book by C. G. Chesterfield.
Went to Half Price Books this evening and picked up the following:
1. The Lost - Jack Ketchum
2. Try Fear - James Scott Bell
3. Try Darkness - James Scott Bell
4. Granta Family Book circa 1997 featuring a short by Bret Easton Ellis
5. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror circa 2009
6. Las Vegas Noir
7. These Guns for Hire: 31 Short Stories about Hit Men
Last week, picked up:
1. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
2. Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
3. Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
4. Lights Out - Jason Starr
5. The Little Sleep - Paul Tremblay
6 Money for Nothing - Donald E. Westlake
Gots me some serious reading to do...
I need to do less cooking/housework and more reading/writing (I don't want to be a Victorian woman!!). Still not finished The Marriage Plot, and I'm also reading Correction by Thomas Bernhard. And I bought about 20 books in the last month or so! Most of them from what LitReactoreians said they liked.
The Visible Man, Chuck Klosterman. Really liked Downtown Owl, so we'll see.
I love Half-Price books! Their clearance wall has like one and two dollar books and they are popular books not like obscure crap that no one would read.
Yeah, Half price is good. The clearance wall is where I found the two Bell books. I've gotten a lot of my Stephen King books from the clearance shelf.
I got a Dean Koontz book for a dollar. Yes, I read Dean Koontz, he is my one guilty pleasure. Although he essentially writes the same story over and over. Also got a weird Orson Scott Card book, I was expecting sci-fi and it turns out to be the one book he wrote about child abuse.
You know, I liked one Dean Koontz book. The one about the talking dog? Not that bad. Although its been awhile.
@Averydoll: I agree. Watchers was pretty good. But every movie they tried to make of it was really, really terrible. Really terrible.
Watchers! Yeah, that's the one. I didn't know they made a movie of it. I can't imagine it being good.
My school textbooks that I haven't bought yet.
And:
By Steve Aylett
- The Crime Studio
- Atom
- Novahead
Mostly because I own Slaughtermatic and I didn't know that it was the 2nd book in the Beerlight books series. And then I thought - I might as well buy them all.
Also bought by Bradley Sands:
- My Heart Said No, But The Camera Crew Said Yes!
- Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy
Now I think I own all of Bradley's books that are available. :)
Just ordered Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman, House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski and The Outlaw Album: Stories by Daniel Woodrell last night.
Hi all,
I'm new here. First post.
I just did a big order which will keep me busy for the next couple of months
David Foster Wallace - Brief interviews with Hideous Men
Donald Ray Pollock - Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock - The Devil All the Time
Don DeLillo - Falling Man
Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Looking forward to them!!!
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones
kurt vonnegut -- look at the birdie (short stories)
I just ordered Susanna Clarke's books Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel and Ladies of Grace Adieu for a friend.
If you like Neil Gaiman and haven't read these books, then I advice you to look into them. They are awesome.
that's one hell of an awesome list.
just got a box of PKD off ebay: Valis, Ubik, Three Stigmata..., Do Androids..., Radio Free Albemuth, The Divine Invasion and two short story collections of his.
AND, just hit up Myopic Books in Chicago where I picked up two by Cormac: Suttree and Child of God.
just got a box of Xmas love in the mail too, Amazon gift card with William Gay's The Long Home AND Provinces of the Night, Woodrell's Winter's Bone and Cormac's Outer Dark.
You, my friend, have good taste.
I'm reading the autobiography of Malcolm X. God, white people suck!
That can be construed as a not-so-subtle come-on.
You can suck it, Utah lol
No but seriously, I see why he was so angry at white people. His childhood was fucked up. It's sad to think people could get away with so much back then. Literally his teacher called him a n-word to his face, his guidance counselor in school told him he could never be a lawyer because he was black.
I was told I could never play basketball just because I'm white and have no talent for the sport. But we persevere. Look at me now! Working in construction.
Unfortunately Danny, that's just how it was. The shocking thing is they probably didn't even think they were being racist, just talking to second class citizens. Is shocking.
I got sent some PDFs from Deadite Press including: Zombies and shit by Carlton Mellick III, Ghoul by Brian Keene and The Haunter Of The Threshold by Edward Lee.
I was told I couldn't be a brain surgeon because I'm dyslexic. It was on that day that I realized the human brain actually had the parts of the brain written on it, in English. It's also the day I went on a hunt for dyslexic brain surgeons - of which there are many. Keep in mind I was told this whenI was 27 and already had no intentions of becoming any sort of doctor.
I just bought Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by Salinger. I've read it before, but I didn't own it. Now I caught 'em all!
I scored an edition of Day By Day Armageddon that was self published by JL Bourne. Some have said they're hard to come by.
Also got a papery copy of The Road, my digital copy is about worn out.
Awesome book. The sequel was somewhat of a letdown, but the original is fantastic.
@Pop, I agree. I wasn't a fan of zombie stories until I read DBDA. I haven't read many others, but nothing has compared so far.
I just bought Skullkickers.
Sean Williams "Metal Fatigue". Totally unexpected buy, I've never heard anything about it before.
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness
Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
kurt vonnegut - welcome to the monkey house
Fuck, I love Welcome to the Monkey House. Those are some tight short stories. So many brilliant ones. They are the kind that I end up talking about at parties because someone will bring up a social subject (birth control, equal rights, WMDs, .... thomas edison?) and I'll say, "I read this short story by Kurt Vonnegut..." and I'll go off telling one of his stories from that book.
we're reading mister bergeron for a class, and it wasnt in the back issue of the text i bought, but if those stories are even *as* good as what i read so far in look at the birdie, then im excited.
They are even better, in my opinion, but that was the first Vonnegut I ever read... so it's got that special place in my heart.
I went shopping yesterday after a complete fucker of a day and took out my frustration on my bank balance and came home with a good few books that i've been meaning to buy for ages.
I got
1, The Strain by Guilmero Del Torro (I wont even attempt to say I can spell his name!) which is a vampire trilogy (recently made into a comic i'm reading as well frm Dark Horse).
2. 11.22.63 by Stephen King (aka GOD).
3. The Talisman Graphic Novel.
4. The Dark Tower:The Fall Of Gilead graphic novel :)
Now I just need some actual time to sit down and read them!
I'm about to order 29 different books I need this semester, later this week. Couldn't list them all from memory, but here's an incomplete list of them.
http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3S2ZSV87DVOZ6/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go_v