April's Amazing Adventures in Fiction

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Actually, THE LIFESHIP was written by Harry Harrison and Gordon R. Dickson.:eek:
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Well what do you know hey?....:p I had read LIFESHIP and didn't like it that much but went with AE35Unit's memory on GRRM being involved. Well in that case, even more reason for AE35 to try out GRRM as it sounds as if he hasn't read any GRRM yet and happily maintain that he's one of the best in the business, especially across multiple Genres.

Cheers......:)
 
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Well what do you know hey?....:p I had read LIFESHIP and didn't like it that much but went with AE35Unit's memory on GRRM being involved. Well in that case, even more reason for AE35 to try out GRRM as it sounds as if he hasn't read any GRRM yet and happily maintain that he's one of the best in the business, especially across multiple Genres.

Cheers......:)
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I saw Fevre Dream is new in the library, i will try it just because the hole vampire horror thing. I require that after the high quality of I Am Legend.
Plus its in fantasy masterworks series it cant be too bad seeing the other books in the SF,fantasy list.

I will try to forget i didnt like the writing in A Game of Thrones when im reading it.
 
Connavar said:
I saw Fevre Dream is new in the library, i will try it just because the hole vampire horror thing. I require that after the high quality of I Am Legend.
Plus its in fantasy masterworks series it cant be too bad seeing the other books in the SF,fantasy list.

I will try to forget i didnt like the writing in A Game of Thrones when im reading it.
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Almost like chalk and cheese Conn in terms of the subject matter. For what it's worth I rank I Am Legend, Dracula (I know not all are keen on this) and Fevre Dream on almost an equal footing as classics of the Vampire Canon. J.D. will probably be able to cite other out-and-out classics.
 
OH Sorry to hear that. When you do get a chance do try it, it's really good.

Another with too many books?...know the feeling...;)
 
Just finished Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels. Not bad; a pretty decent alternate history / time travel thriller with a couple of decent twists and plenty of action to keep it zipping along.

And keeping with the angel theme - and largely because I still haven't received my copy of Before They Are Hanged (which is getting to be annoying) - I'm moving on to Richard Morgan's Broken Angels, which has been sitting on my to read pile for long enough.
 
Finished Balzac's Le Peau de Chagrin (translated as The Wild Ass's Skin) last night. It's a good bit unbalanced in structure (I have to agree with Saintsbury's statement that Raphaël's story in the second section is of interminable length, despite many points of interest), and the genuine feel of a weird tale is largely absent (although when present, is quite good, and done both deftly and subtly); but for all its faults, I did enjoy it, and will probably revisit it again at some other time. The edition I have also includes "La Grande Bretêche", the tale which, many years ago, was my first encounter with Balzac, and which I still consider to be a tale nearly perfect in structure and handling... quite a nasty bit at the end there, as well....

Am now reading Studies in Weird Fiction for Summer 2003, having read Mike Ashley's piece on Blackwood and the Celtic Twilight, and moving on to "Disability as a Survival Mechanism in the Works of Shirley Jackson", by Marilyn Boyer....
 
J.D. when speaking of Balzac, did you ever read "The unknown masterpiece" ?
 
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J.D. when speaking of Balzac, did you ever read "The unknown masterpiece" ?
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No, though I plan on doing so. Though not mentioned in HPL's "Supernatural Horror in Literature", he did mention it in his letter to Edwin Baird of Weird Tales:

I like Weird Tales very much, though I have seen only the April [1923] number. Most of the stories, of course, are more or less commercial -- or should I say conventional? -- in technique, but they all have an enjoyable angle. "Beyond the Door", by Paul Suter, seems to me the most truly touched with that elusive quality of original genius -- though "A Square of Canvas", by Anthony M. Rud, would be a close second if not so reminiscent in denouement of Balzac's "Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu" -- as I recall it across a lapse of years, without a copy at hand.
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-- Miscellaneous Writings, p. 507​

I've only recently found a copy of that, however, so it will probably follow my next book on the reading list: a collection including Balzac's "Seraphita", "Louis Lambert", and "Exiles", under the title of the first named....

And I've finished that issue of Studies in Weird Fiction, which also included a rather interesting interview (originally published in 1928) with Lord Dunsany, as well as an article by Joshi on the weird work of L. P. Hartley, and reviews of some very interesting items, one of which I've never before heard: Mariah of the Spirits and Other Southern Ghost Stories, by Sherry Austin -- a book which, from the description, sounds like it might be something you'd be interested in, Lobo....
 
Speaking of which, I read a litle something called "The worshiper of the image" by R. La Galiene (or something similar) . It was a very weird experience and short to, it was at times oscilating between Undine and the Conte Cruel¨s of Morrow , and god knows that's a very strange combination !

Incidently, I believe Lovecraft's view of Weird Tales rather changed over time, didn¨t it ?
 
Oh, and about the book I mentioned , if you dont know it, you should ( I know , I say that about every damn book out there :p) .
 
Finished the Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows which i thought was passable, but not interesting enough to rush to order the sequels.

Just started Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
 
Finally getting into "The Other Half Lives" It started out a bit out and seemed to go around in circles but now the plot is opening up a little, in a word "intriguing"
 
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