[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
-Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
I have never read a biography of Lincoln so I have no idea how close it is.
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A buddy of mine read that and said it was pretty good. I’m interested in checking it out[/quote]
If you read it and like it then I recommend checking out the Jane Austin adaptions.
[quote]WormwoodTheory wrote:
John Dies at the End
a great blend of soul sucking horror and comedy. It’s basically about leaving the fate of the world in the hands of a deadbeat alcoholic and a high school dropout.[/quote]
Great book. I remember when it was first being put out in parts, waiting for the next chapter to drop. That was killer.
Op, my library has no titles for Geoffrey Regan which suprises me, I was going to place a hold on one, they sounded good.
I did place holds on American Psycho, John Dies At The End and How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers.
Thanks for the suggestions. A few of mine are,
Matthew Reilly has some great military action. Ice Station is the first in his Scarecrow series. His first(one off) book “Contest” would make a great action flick.
If you have time to invest into a series, James Clavell’s Asian saga series starts with Shogun.
The Thirteenth Valley, Vietnam military, think Platoon.
[quote]SSC wrote:
On a simple note, I just finished “Under the Dome” by Stephen King. Kept me turning pages.[/quote]
He set the bar to high with The Stand imho. Everything I’ve read of his since then has fallen short, close but not quite.
I’m enjoying some Jeeves & Wooster right now.
If you like stream of consciousness/beat genre check out Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Greater Notion’. Epic.
[quote]cowboyfromhell wrote:
If you like stream of consciousness/beat genre check out Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Greater Notion’. Epic.[/quote]
EVERYTHING Kesey wrote was a load of shite except for ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. Talk about a one hit wonder. It’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’ BTW and crap.
Anyone into stream of conscious/beat gibberish mixed with homosexual/paedophilic degeneracy, intravenous drug addiction, cruelty to cats and firearm manslaughter/murder check out William Burrough’s ‘Junky’ and ‘Naked Lunch’. One sick puppy right there.
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
[quote]SSC wrote:
On a simple note, I just finished “Under the Dome” by Stephen King. Kept me turning pages.[/quote]
He set the bar to high with The Stand imho. Everything I’ve read of his since then has fallen short, close but not quite. [/quote]
I agree, I read that years ago and every SK book I’ve tried since hasn’t measured up. I’m reading the Gunslinger series right now and he even acknowledges in the foreward that many of his fans wouldn’t have cared if he died after writing The Stand haha. He’s still an incredible writer, there’s a part where one of the characters is going insane and I felt like I was going insane while reading it. I had to get up and take a shower after reading it.
And OP, if you liked Abercrombie try Scott Bakker Prince of Nothing. Very similar styles, and Bakker is a much better technical writer than Abercrombie (though he knows it, and sometimes he rambles). I liked both those series, the only thing I don’t like is the “cynicism”. It’s like the good guys never win.
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr Ripley
Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon and his Continental Op short stories
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely
Mickey Spillane - My Gun is Quick, Vengeance is Mine!, Kiss Me Deadly
Cornell Woolrich - The Black Curtain, The Black Path of Fear
anyone read those vampire and werewolf books? I think it was called “Just after Sunset” or “Right Around Dusk”… something like that? 
Oh yeah! Mickey Spillane! That’s some great stuff. I haven’t read one in years.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I recommend throwing out books that are moldy, falling apart, or written by Nicholas Sparks.[/quote]
LMFAO!
[quote]gregron wrote:
anyone read those vampire and werewolf books? I think it was called “Just after Sunset” or “Right Around Dusk”… something like that? ;)[/quote]
Oh, was it “Early Evening When You Can Just See Things But You Still Have To Use Nightvision”? I loved that series, and the film adaptation, “Thor”.
I just finished Jeffrey Deaver’s Carte Blanche which is a James Bond novel. Very good.
I just read “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” by Ishmeal Beah.
Crazy stuff. Moving to say the least.
My latest favorite
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