Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedFebruary 27, 2012 - 9:18pm
Ex-Heros
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 27, 2012 - 9:20pm
I love Penny Dreadful
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.February 28, 2012 - 9:05am
Now I've got Twilight, by William Gay waiting for me on my kindle. Shit, my stack of books keeps growing and growing and growing. I don't even know how to read!
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 28, 2012 - 9:08am
@howie - it's funnier because you typed it.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 28, 2012 - 9:10am
If it makes you feel any better I've had Gravity's Rainbow sitting on my bookshelf for two years. I have not opened it. It's beginning to take on a mythological quality for me. I pass it, I look at it. I do not touch it.
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazFebruary 28, 2012 - 9:21am
I've never read any Elmore Leonard and I'm going to borrow my friend's Justified dvds so I figured I'd read up on the character beforehand. I picked up the short story collection When the Women Come out to Dance and Pronto, which both feature the main character from Justified. I'm almost done the short stories and will probably start Pronto next. So far, I'm kind of 'meh' on his writing style. Nothing against it and they're quick reads but nothing that's making me wanting to go & dig around more of the catalog.
I also picked up Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen which I read about 11 years ago. Got it on Amazon for about 5 bucks. I remembered enjoying that collection & figured it's a good one to have in the home library.
After those - who knows? I should probably take a buying hiatus. I have plenty in my queue. I'm good at buying them but not so great at reading them quickly.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesFebruary 28, 2012 - 11:05am
@alex - yeah, they're great bookstores. you'd love WP too. no, my books won't be on the shelves.
Hetch Litman
from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor February 28, 2012 - 11:16am
Ira Levin? Haven't thought about him in years
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 10, 2012 - 9:39pm
Ira is great.
Well, while I was War brainstorming I went thrift-store hunting;
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire by Poe Ballantine (ironically this junk shop was literally blocks away from Hawthorne Publishing's office).
Blue River by Ethan Canin (first edition)
Enderby's Dark Lady Anthony Burgess (first edition)
$17-
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 12, 2012 - 1:18pm
Devil All The Time is Awesome. Can I also recommend Ready Player One and and Silent Land.
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 12, 2012 - 1:22pm
Devil All The Time is Awesome. Can I also recommend Ready Player One and The Silent Land.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelMarch 12, 2012 - 2:07pm
Has anyone ever read Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Scaizi? I bought it because it sounded funny.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 12, 2012 - 4:52pm
I havn't but I've read just about every other John Scaizi book so please tell me how it goes.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 12, 2012 - 4:57pm
I just received Hst Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone book and Pkd's Exegesis. I originally got these from the library but only I few pages in they were both worth buying.
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War March 12, 2012 - 5:03pm
Hot Pink ~ Adam Levin, short stories, really good so far
The Sufferings of Young Werther ~ Goethe, new translation, worth reading again
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War March 12, 2012 - 5:08pm
Oh and the Return to Nevron series by Samuel Delaney ~ gotta find the time to read
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonMarch 12, 2012 - 6:49pm
Nikki said: I just received Hst Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone book and Pkd's Exegesis. I originally got these from the library but only I few pages in they were both worth buying.
I've wondered about that Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone. I recently put it on my amazon wishlist. Thompson's writing can only be taken in short binges for me. I read like a ton of his stuff. And then I can't read him for a long time. But, yeah, I feel the need to read something new since watching The Rum Diary.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 12, 2012 - 7:25pm
God I thought that movie sucked and I really really wanted to like it for so many reasons. I stuck it out for like 50 minutes then walked out of the theater to go get rum and cokes then set myself to blotto
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonMarch 12, 2012 - 8:17pm
I thought it was alright. But that's about it.
But then, I was drunk off of Jameson when I watched it.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerMarch 13, 2012 - 2:19am
In the last two weeks
"The Road" Finished
"The Hunger Games" Finished.
"All the Pretty Horses"
Chris Davis
from Indiana is reading A Feast of Snakes by Harry CrewsMarch 13, 2012 - 3:35am
I've only read a couple of his essays and liked them so yesterday I ordered 10 Harry Crews books. Hopefully by the time they get in I will have "My Fathers House" finished and can devote a month to reading as much Crews as possible.
I also picked up "My Custom Van: 50 mind blowing tales that will blow your mind all over your face" by Michael Ian Black. So I got that to look forward to.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMarch 13, 2012 - 4:49am
Amsterdam Stories by Nescio and Satantango by László Krasznahorkai
They won't arrive for another two weeks or so, so I'm catching up on other stuff I bought. For the last few months I've actually been spending more money on books than going out -- congratulate / pity me.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.March 16, 2012 - 9:53pm
Archelon Ranch by Garrett Cook. As I'm going to be doing some workshopping with him and Bradley, thought I should check some of his stuff out. I have his novella in the bizarro starter kit already, and Bradley recommended this novel.
Alex Kane
from west-central Illinois is reading Dark OrbitMarch 16, 2012 - 10:08pm
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
Playgrounds of the Mind by Larry Niven
The Academy by Bentley Little
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinMarch 16, 2012 - 10:19pm
I want one of the secret copies of Fear and Loathing that Hunter stockpiled or Jan stole. I like to believe.
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The last book I bought was the Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of fantasy, but when I do read fantasy I prefer rougish fantasty (I mean, I write stories about criminals and lunatics, I don't care much for "strong and noble" characters, I prefer quick, clever and unscrupulous). I've read a couple of such fantasy books in the past (pulp stuff mostly, but I do recommend Apropos of Nothing by Peter David (I recommend everything by Peter David, honestly, I read the PSI Man series when I was like 8 and I've been a fan of his since)) but few have had so much glee in every page. I mean, it's light reading, but it is fun.
I got Zen and the Art of Writing with it, but that only lasted like 3 hours.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonMay 11, 2012 - 7:13am
Just bought Flashover by Gordon Highland. Gonna be starting it either before or after The Thin Man.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonJune 29, 2012 - 8:01am
Just ordered pbooks of these:
- Invisible Monsters Remix
- I Didn't Mean to Be Kevin by Caleb J. Ross
- Praise of Motherhood by Phil Jourdan
- Zombie Bake-Off by Stephen Graham Jones
- By the Time We Leave Here, We'll be Friends by J. David Osborne
- Flex Mentallo by Grant Morrison
- The Night Season by Chelsea Cain
Daniel Brophy
from Taunton, MA is reading The Power of OneJune 29, 2012 - 8:09am
The Magicians. Knocked it out in four days.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerJune 29, 2012 - 12:36pm
After the Rural Gothic conversation awhile back I bought a bunch of Cormac McCarthy, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and Donald Ray Pollock.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigJune 29, 2012 - 12:43pm
My two most recent purchases were Praise of Motherhood by our own Fylh and Out Of Touch by Mr. Tietz(I managed to download it about 12 hours before the Kindle edition went *poof*, so I am pretty pleased with myself). I also recently got a stack of books in a trade, so that's....Dope by Sara Gran, The Things They Carried and Me Talk Pretty One Day.
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeJune 29, 2012 - 12:45pm
Donald Ray Pollock is just so godamned good. I knockemstiff is a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned. The devil all the time is fantastic as well.
I just bought '500 ways to tell a better story' by chuck wendig.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJune 29, 2012 - 12:47pm
You've got a week to know and apply all 500 of those ways.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJune 29, 2012 - 3:49pm
We've got a Book Club discussion starting in a couple days, so I was hoping this thread would be full of folks announcing they've gotten their hands on that one. . . You'll love it, I swear. *
Me, just picked up Pike by Benjamin Whitmer, We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson, The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman, The Soul Consortium by Simon West-Bulford, and Unaccustomed Mercy by D.B. Cox.
* The swearing's more of the cursing kind than the promisory kind, though I'm reasonably fucking certain you'll find the read enjoyable.
Brandon
from KCMO is reading Made to BreakJune 29, 2012 - 1:19pm
The Visible Man is one of my recent favorites. Really good shit.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJune 29, 2012 - 3:48pm
I've loved Klos's nonfic. He has a simple and entertaining style that puts music in culturally-insightful contexts, a la Cameron Crow's "uncool," or Nick Hornby. Though it helps that we grew up with the same jams.
Robert.B
from Northern Ireland is reading The Last of the Savages By Jay McInerneyJune 29, 2012 - 4:53pm
Just ordered Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk and The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney
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 DigestJune 29, 2012 - 6:03pm
Twenty bought within the last month:
1. Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster
2. Invisible - Paul Auster
3. The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
4. Quarry - Max Allan Collins
5. Quarry's Ex - Max Allan Collins
6. Eureka - Jim Lehrer
7. Asia Hand - Christopher G. Moore
8. Vengeance is Mine - Mickey Spillane
9. My Gun is Quick - Mickey Spillane
10. Lights Out - Jason Starr
11. The Girls of Murder CIty - Douglas Perry
12. Casino Moon - Peter Blauner
13. Flood - Andrew Vachss
14. False Allegations - Andrew Vachss
15. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
16. Calibre - Ken Bruen
17. I Am Not a Serial Killer - Dan Wells
18. Manic - Terry Cheney
19. The Visitation - Frank Peretti
20. The Stand - Stephen King
Robert.B
from Northern Ireland is reading The Last of the Savages By Jay McInerneyAugust 3, 2012 - 11:51am
What I've bought in the last few weeks,
Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney (Currently reading)
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Underworld by Don Delillo
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksAugust 3, 2012 - 12:11pm
I've heard great things about Delilo and never managed to remember to pick up one of his books.
I just bought The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus and a textbook on Judaism.
Michael J. Riser
from CA, TX, Japan, back to CA is reading The Tyrant - Michael Cisco, The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino IglesiasAugust 3, 2012 - 12:28pm
July -
Praise of Motherhood - Phil Jourdan
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler and Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Junky - William S. Burroughs
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
All the Time in the World - E. L. Doctorow
The Elements of Style - Strunk & White
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Digital Barbarism - Mark Helprin
Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat - Andrez Bergen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Stay God - Nik Korpon
Broken Piano for President - Patrick Wensink
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerAugust 3, 2012 - 12:54pm
American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now editted by Peter Straub.
Monster in My Closet by R.L. Naquin (she's a good friend, support her if you like urban fantasy)
The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Mess_Jess
from Sydney, Australia, living in Toronto, Canada is reading Perfect by Rachael JoyceAugust 3, 2012 - 4:27pm
This week I started The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. I love the way he writes, but he gave away the flipping end of the story in the introduction! And I don't mean, he alluded to it - he told the audience the outcome in black and white, on the basis that it didn't matter, because the overal theme was more important. Gah!
Last week I read Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Beautiful to read, a fun adventure to follow, but ultimately a bit of a pointless story.
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 DigestAugust 3, 2012 - 5:00pm
Too many to list, but mostly Elmore Leonard. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, crime writer of all time.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeAugust 3, 2012 - 5:01pm
As evidence that I do not ignore everything I read on LitReactor, I offer the fact that I recently acquired a copy of Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnAugust 3, 2012 - 5:29pm
HHhH, Laurent Binet
The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock
And I know it's not fiction, but Arguably: Essays, Christopher Hitchens.
Currently finishing The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreAugust 3, 2012 - 7:56pm
F*ckload of Shorts - Jedidiah Ayres
Every Shallow Cut - Tom Piccirilli
Forecast - Shya Scanlon
Dead Money - Ray Banks
Pike - Benjamin Whitmer
The Death of Sweet Mister - Daniel Woodrell
Drive - James Sallis
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
The Best American Noir of the Century (James Ellroy, editor)
Michael J. Riser
from CA, TX, Japan, back to CA is reading The Tyrant - Michael Cisco, The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino IglesiasAugust 3, 2012 - 9:15pm
Which reminds me... I also picked up Gordon's Flashover. I forgot because it hasn't shown up in the mail yet.
I've got The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff. Still haven't read either one. I really need to do that.
Bradley Sands
from Boston is reading Greil Marcus's The History of Rock 'N' Roll in Ten SongsAugust 3, 2012 - 9:59pm
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Fylh
from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is readingAugust 4, 2012 - 7:43am
Thanks for ordering my book, Mr Riser. I hope it proves of interest.
Michael J. Riser
from CA, TX, Japan, back to CA is reading The Tyrant - Michael Cisco, The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino IglesiasAugust 4, 2012 - 9:28am
Ex-Heros
I love Penny Dreadful
Now I've got Twilight, by William Gay waiting for me on my kindle. Shit, my stack of books keeps growing and growing and growing. I don't even know how to read!
@howie - it's funnier because you typed it.
If it makes you feel any better I've had Gravity's Rainbow sitting on my bookshelf for two years. I have not opened it. It's beginning to take on a mythological quality for me. I pass it, I look at it. I do not touch it.
I've never read any Elmore Leonard and I'm going to borrow my friend's Justified dvds so I figured I'd read up on the character beforehand. I picked up the short story collection When the Women Come out to Dance and Pronto, which both feature the main character from Justified. I'm almost done the short stories and will probably start Pronto next. So far, I'm kind of 'meh' on his writing style. Nothing against it and they're quick reads but nothing that's making me wanting to go & dig around more of the catalog.
I also picked up Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen which I read about 11 years ago. Got it on Amazon for about 5 bucks. I remembered enjoying that collection & figured it's a good one to have in the home library.
After those - who knows? I should probably take a buying hiatus. I have plenty in my queue. I'm good at buying them but not so great at reading them quickly.
@alex - yeah, they're great bookstores. you'd love WP too. no, my books won't be on the shelves.
Ira Levin? Haven't thought about him in years
Ira is great.
Well, while I was War brainstorming I went thrift-store hunting;
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire by Poe Ballantine (ironically this junk shop was literally blocks away from Hawthorne Publishing's office).
Blue River by Ethan Canin (first edition)
Enderby's Dark Lady Anthony Burgess (first edition)
$17-
Devil All The Time is Awesome. Can I also recommend Ready Player One and and Silent Land.
Devil All The Time is Awesome. Can I also recommend Ready Player One and The Silent Land.
Has anyone ever read Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Scaizi? I bought it because it sounded funny.
I havn't but I've read just about every other John Scaizi book so please tell me how it goes.
I just received Hst Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone book and Pkd's Exegesis. I originally got these from the library but only I few pages in they were both worth buying.
Hot Pink ~ Adam Levin, short stories, really good so far
The Sufferings of Young Werther ~ Goethe, new translation, worth reading again
Oh and the Return to Nevron series by Samuel Delaney ~ gotta find the time to read
I've wondered about that Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone. I recently put it on my amazon wishlist. Thompson's writing can only be taken in short binges for me. I read like a ton of his stuff. And then I can't read him for a long time. But, yeah, I feel the need to read something new since watching The Rum Diary.
God I thought that movie sucked and I really really wanted to like it for so many reasons. I stuck it out for like 50 minutes then walked out of the theater to go get rum and cokes then set myself to blotto
I thought it was alright. But that's about it.
But then, I was drunk off of Jameson when I watched it.
In the last two weeks
"The Road" Finished
"The Hunger Games" Finished.
"All the Pretty Horses"
I've only read a couple of his essays and liked them so yesterday I ordered 10 Harry Crews books. Hopefully by the time they get in I will have "My Fathers House" finished and can devote a month to reading as much Crews as possible.
I also picked up "My Custom Van: 50 mind blowing tales that will blow your mind all over your face" by Michael Ian Black. So I got that to look forward to.
Amsterdam Stories by Nescio and Satantango by László Krasznahorkai
They won't arrive for another two weeks or so, so I'm catching up on other stuff I bought. For the last few months I've actually been spending more money on books than going out -- congratulate / pity me.
Archelon Ranch by Garrett Cook. As I'm going to be doing some workshopping with him and Bradley, thought I should check some of his stuff out. I have his novella in the bizarro starter kit already, and Bradley recommended this novel.
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
Playgrounds of the Mind by Larry Niven
The Academy by Bentley Little
I want one of the secret copies of Fear and Loathing that Hunter stockpiled or Jan stole. I like to believe.
-
The last book I bought was the Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of fantasy, but when I do read fantasy I prefer rougish fantasty (I mean, I write stories about criminals and lunatics, I don't care much for "strong and noble" characters, I prefer quick, clever and unscrupulous). I've read a couple of such fantasy books in the past (pulp stuff mostly, but I do recommend Apropos of Nothing by Peter David (I recommend everything by Peter David, honestly, I read the PSI Man series when I was like 8 and I've been a fan of his since)) but few have had so much glee in every page. I mean, it's light reading, but it is fun.
I got Zen and the Art of Writing with it, but that only lasted like 3 hours.
Just bought Flashover by Gordon Highland. Gonna be starting it either before or after The Thin Man.
http://gordonhighland.com/words/novels/
Just ordered pbooks of these:
- Invisible Monsters Remix
- I Didn't Mean to Be Kevin by Caleb J. Ross
- Praise of Motherhood by Phil Jourdan
- Zombie Bake-Off by Stephen Graham Jones
- By the Time We Leave Here, We'll be Friends by J. David Osborne
- Flex Mentallo by Grant Morrison
- The Night Season by Chelsea Cain
The Magicians. Knocked it out in four days.
After the Rural Gothic conversation awhile back I bought a bunch of Cormac McCarthy, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and Donald Ray Pollock.
My two most recent purchases were Praise of Motherhood by our own Fylh and Out Of Touch by Mr. Tietz(I managed to download it about 12 hours before the Kindle edition went *poof*, so I am pretty pleased with myself). I also recently got a stack of books in a trade, so that's....Dope by Sara Gran, The Things They Carried and Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Donald Ray Pollock is just so godamned good. I knockemstiff is a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned. The devil all the time is fantastic as well.
I just bought '500 ways to tell a better story' by chuck wendig.
You've got a week to know and apply all 500 of those ways.
We've got a Book Club discussion starting in a couple days, so I was hoping this thread would be full of folks announcing they've gotten their hands on that one. . . You'll love it, I swear. *
Me, just picked up Pike by Benjamin Whitmer, We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson, The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman, The Soul Consortium by Simon West-Bulford, and Unaccustomed Mercy by D.B. Cox.
* The swearing's more of the cursing kind than the promisory kind, though I'm reasonably fucking certain you'll find the read enjoyable.
The Visible Man is one of my recent favorites. Really good shit.
I've loved Klos's nonfic. He has a simple and entertaining style that puts music in culturally-insightful contexts, a la Cameron Crow's "uncool," or Nick Hornby. Though it helps that we grew up with the same jams.
Just ordered Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk and The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney
Twenty bought within the last month:
1. Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster
2. Invisible - Paul Auster
3. The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
4. Quarry - Max Allan Collins
5. Quarry's Ex - Max Allan Collins
6. Eureka - Jim Lehrer
7. Asia Hand - Christopher G. Moore
8. Vengeance is Mine - Mickey Spillane
9. My Gun is Quick - Mickey Spillane
10. Lights Out - Jason Starr
11. The Girls of Murder CIty - Douglas Perry
12. Casino Moon - Peter Blauner
13. Flood - Andrew Vachss
14. False Allegations - Andrew Vachss
15. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
16. Calibre - Ken Bruen
17. I Am Not a Serial Killer - Dan Wells
18. Manic - Terry Cheney
19. The Visitation - Frank Peretti
20. The Stand - Stephen King
What I've bought in the last few weeks,
Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney (Currently reading)
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Underworld by Don Delillo
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
I've heard great things about Delilo and never managed to remember to pick up one of his books.
I just bought The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus and a textbook on Judaism.
July -
Praise of Motherhood - Phil Jourdan
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler and Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Junky - William S. Burroughs
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
All the Time in the World - E. L. Doctorow
The Elements of Style - Strunk & White
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Digital Barbarism - Mark Helprin
Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat - Andrez Bergen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Stay God - Nik Korpon
Broken Piano for President - Patrick Wensink
American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now editted by Peter Straub.
Monster in My Closet by R.L. Naquin (she's a good friend, support her if you like urban fantasy)
The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
11/22/63 by Stephen King
This week I started The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. I love the way he writes, but he gave away the flipping end of the story in the introduction! And I don't mean, he alluded to it - he told the audience the outcome in black and white, on the basis that it didn't matter, because the overal theme was more important. Gah!
Last week I read Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Beautiful to read, a fun adventure to follow, but ultimately a bit of a pointless story.
Too many to list, but mostly Elmore Leonard. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, crime writer of all time.
As evidence that I do not ignore everything I read on LitReactor, I offer the fact that I recently acquired a copy of Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock.
HHhH, Laurent Binet
The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock
And I know it's not fiction, but Arguably: Essays, Christopher Hitchens.
Currently finishing The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan
F*ckload of Shorts - Jedidiah Ayres
Every Shallow Cut - Tom Piccirilli
Forecast - Shya Scanlon
Dead Money - Ray Banks
Pike - Benjamin Whitmer
The Death of Sweet Mister - Daniel Woodrell
Drive - James Sallis
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
The Best American Noir of the Century (James Ellroy, editor)
Which reminds me... I also picked up Gordon's Flashover. I forgot because it hasn't shown up in the mail yet.
I've got The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff. Still haven't read either one. I really need to do that.
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Thanks for ordering my book, Mr Riser. I hope it proves of interest.
I've no doubt. Looking forward to it.