The All-New Singing and Dancing October Reading Thread!

[nj1]

Lobo: Someone more knowledgeable will have to give you pointers on that, as I've only done so once, and for the life of me can't recall how to do it.
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Is it CONTROL, ALT AND F5? I may be wrong but that does do something
If i'm wromg try posting a request in the technology section, those dudes know thier stuff

 

[Lobolover]

J.D.- just three remaining, and I'm almost through the first of these .

I read "Lamp" a long time ago, separately, and these things must be read continously . Did you also know Level wrote a suposedly genuinely supernatural work, by the way ?

What do you plan on reading next ?

 

[j d worthington]

So I've heard. I know that a couple of his novels were translated into English, but I've not been able to find them. I've also not gone through the entry on Level in my encyclopedias of horror and the supernatural, which would probably give information on which actually fits the supernatural. I'm only about a third of the way through the book, having begun it last night, but should finish it in the next day or so, depending on how things go.

My next is likely to either be one of the Year's Best Horror anthologies, or (most likely) The Golem, followed by The Dybbuk....

 

[Lobolover]

Here

THOSE WHO RETURN by Maurice Level

I dont have the Dybbuk but trust me, and go for The Golem you will be surprised .

 

[j d worthington]

Ah! Many thanks. That was precisely the Level I'd been looking for; I know that this, and the current volume, were read by Lovecraft, though Those Who Return was not read until after he had written "Supernatural Horror in Literature", iirc, as he didn't acquire the volume until after that. So I may alter my reading program slightly and include this Level before moving on.

And yes, I was leaning heavily toward The Golem anyway, though I want to get to the next couple of volumes in that Year's Best series for particular personal reasons.

I'm not sure whether or not The Dybbuk is available online (though I would be surprised if it were not), but it is a play, so I'm hoping to take it all at one sitting later in the week (or on my next day off)....

 

[Lobolover]

Just finished the Level colection .

 

[Pyan]

Finished and enjoyed Unseen Academicals...

Now re-reading Unfinished Tales, by JRRT, as it's now one of the Tolkien Trivia books - must keep up!


(post 6000!)

 

[LaMattie]

Starting Tigana!

 

[Connavar]

I'm reading The Damnation Game by Clive Barker.

I'm leaving for a trip to Ethiopia tommorow for two weeks so i'm also taking with me :

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
The first Chronicles of Druss by David Gemmell
Woe to Live On by Daniell Woodrell

I gotta have something for the long trips, the slow nights in a dodgy hotel. Might not read all 3-4 books of course but the bigger choice of books is nice.

 

[Fried Egg]

I'm reading The Damnation Game by Clive Barker.

I'm leaving for a trip to Ethiopia tommorow for two weeks so i'm also taking with me :

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
The first Chronicles of Druss by David Gemmell
Woe to Live On by Daniell Woodrell

I gotta have something for the long trips, the slow nights in a dodgy hotel. Might not read all 3-4 books of course but the bigger choice of books is nice.

Better to have too many books with you than too few...

Have a good time.

 

[Connavar]

Yeah you dont want fast paced 300 page books that you finish after 2-3 hours of 12 hour plane trip.

Thats why i choosed Lord Dunsany book, he is so poetic and slow paced,will take more time than a 600 page book to read his book


Thanks !

 

[AE35Unit]

Still on Dagon by Lovecraft, 2 more stories to go. Also Heroic Flights, 100 Years of Historic Flights

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

I recently finished Lonely Planets by David Grinspoon. A very well written and interesting book. A great read for anyone interested in astrobiology.

Now I'm reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.

 

[Allegra]

(post 6000!)

Your font size is too large to escape me, pyan. Congrats!

 

[Hypnos164]

Finished - The Painted Man by Peter V Brett - an enjoyable, if flawed, page turner of a debut.

Onto The Magdalen Martyrs by Ken Bruen next

 

[GOLLUM]

Your font size is too large to escape me, pyan. Congrats!

Well he certainly joins some elite company.....

 

[Quokka]

It's been awhile since I finished a book in 2 days but A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke was a great easy read. Feeling a lot like an old 70s disaster movie it moves along at a nice pace with plenty of little sentences foreboding what's to come, I thought Clarke did these really well and when you've still got 3/4 of a book left he's not really giving anything away . It mentions in the preface that although the conditions on the moon fit with some popular theories at the time (it was written a few months before Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space) they had since been all but proved false but none that it matters in the least as soon as you start the first chapter.

Now it's back to have another go at John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar.

 

[Fried Egg]

It's been awhile since I finished a book in 2 days but A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke was a great easy read. Feeling a lot like an old 70s disaster movie it moves along at a nice pace with plenty of little sentences foreboding what's to come, I thought Clarke did these really well and when you've still got 3/4 of a book left he's not really giving anything away . It mentions in the preface that although the conditions on the moon fit with some popular theories at the time (it was written a few months before Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space) they had since been all but proved false but none that it matters in the least as soon as you start the first chapter.

Yeah, I enjoyed that one. It is so far the only Clarke novel I've read. I must get around to reading another shortly...

Meanwhile, my horror month is going quite well. "October Country" by Ray Bradbury and "Books of Blood: Volume 3" by Clive Barker finished and I'm reading a few short stories by H.P. Lovecraft and M. R. James before going onto "The Mist" by Stephen King shortly...

 

[Taltos]

Finished Ward Moore Bring the Jubilee - it was actually good alternative world story, quite deserving to be in the masterworks series. A bit too descriptive and not enough action for my personal taste - but I still liked it and what's more important it made me think.
Now started for at least third time James Blaylock Elfin ship - this time I really, really... will finish it.

 

[Fried Egg]

Finished Ward Moore Bring the Jubilee - it was actually good alternative world story, quite deserving to be in the masterworks series. A bit too descriptive and not enough action for my personal taste - but I still liked it and what's more important it made me think.

I loved that story, having read it recently too. I wouldn't have said it was too descriptive as such, but the emphasis certainly wasn't on action. More on his philosophical contemplations and discussions with other characters. This was certainly a good thing in my book.