December's here! And you're reading....?

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Yes I am and thanks for asking :D
Finished Neal Asher Prador Moon last evening, or did I. It turns out that maybe my copy is missing the last chapter :eek: Oh well, I'll get back to this once the issue has been cleared.
Now restarted a book which I've been "reading" from the beginning of June :eek: Kim Stanley Robinson Wild Shore
 
I'm about to take a break from Algernon Blackwood's "Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories" and read Jack Vance's "Blue World".
 
Dang, beaten to the punch again by the octopus....I'll have to be extra ready next time...:rolleyes:

Hey Jack Vance...another fine writer. You're on quite a roll Fried Egg.. :)

Anyway, as part of our Christmas book club end of year get to together I'm rereading Calvino's If On A Winter's Night a Traveler and Kawabatas' Snow Country. Two fine novels, so not really a chore per se..
 
Sorry for not posting in a while . In the past weeks I have continued to read the Wordsworth edition of the works of Sir Andrew Caldecott . I also read and finished THE ADMIRAL'S CHAIR AND OTHER SKETCHES AND VIGNETTES By J. E. G. DE MONTMORENCY , as well as THE FRIEND OF DEATH: A FANTASTIC TALE by Pedro Antonio de [Alarcon y Ariza and having reviewed both , so if anyone is curious .....

At the present I am also reading Earth's Enigmas by Charles Roberts and Intermere by William Alexander Taylor .
 
Still getting through Cities in Flight by James Blish. Up to the middle of book three, Earthman Come Home. Actually quite enjoyable. I've realised that with some of these classics you just have to suspend your jaded 21st century outlook and enjoy them like you would an old B movie.
 
Finished Paul McAuley's 400 Billion Stars, which was good but not great. One of those stories where a more sympathetic MC would have been helpful, I think.

Now reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and for a little lighter reading I've just started Robert VS Redick's The Red Wolf Conspiracy.
 
... The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. It's written like a chidren's book from a little boy's perspective, but it's very dark and even a little disturbing.
 
God, not December already, is it? I generally fix on short stories in December, what with Crimbo being so busy and all, one can't really settle down to read for long spells.

So on my Dec list are:

Time Transfer by Arthur Sellings
The War Book ed James Sallis
Time And Stars by Poul Anderson
Machines And Men by Keith Roberts
The 22nd Century by John Christopher
Day Million - Fred Pohl

And I really want to go back and look at Van Vogt's Weapons Shop.

Can't wait. :)
 
elvet said:
... The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. It's written like a chidren's book from a little boy's perspective, but it's very dark and even a little disturbing.
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That novel had a lot of very good points, although I remember being a little disappointed at the somewhat pat resolution. A very Gaimanesque novel, and surprisingly all Connolly's other books seem to be crime novels.

I'm currently almost done with the Russell Kirk and WH Pugmire collections and since a general immersion in things Lovecraftian seems in order, also reading The Horror In The Musesum, a collection of Lovecraft's 'revisions' for other writers. I first read this book some ten years back, but that's quite long enough to have forgotten much of it.
 
The 2007 softcover from Del Rey which reprints the revised Arkham edition. I love the covers for the Del Rey line of HPL reprints, although the Penguin ones are better value for money as they include Joshi's notes.
 
I've got that edition of Horror in the Museum too.

Sadly I haven't got around to reading it yet but I look forward to your comment on the matter J.P...and J.D for that matter.
 
Jimmy the Kid by Donald.E Westlake

Third book in the comic crime series about the thief Dortmunder. I have laughed so much already and its only 70 pages in the book.

Easily the funniest book i have read this year. I should read more comic books,crime or not.
 
Star Born by Andre Norton... and loving it.

For a book written in the mid-1950s it has aged well.
 
Reading the last story in Laurence Manning's THE MAN WHO AWOKE and finished the new Batman Annual and Detective Annual. No complaints, excellent reading on all fronts.
 
GOLLUM said:
I've got that edition of Horror in the Museum too.

Sadly I haven't got around to reading it yet but I look forward to your comment on the matter J.P...and J.D for that matter.
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It's...spotty. More details later.
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Agreed. There are some brilliant things in there ("The Mound", "The Night Ocean"), some quite good pieces ("Out of the Aeons", "The Curse of Yig", "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind"), and some truly awful things ("The Horror at Martin's Beach", "The Disinterment", and, most especially, "Ashes"). As these are revisions, it isn't always easy to tell where the fault was Lovecraft's, and where it was his collaborators (though with some it is very easy, such as "The Mound", which was based on a two-line idea by his client); but just about all of them have some points of interest (again, with the exception of "Ashes", which is a simply gawdawful farrago of nonsense and cliches).

At any rate, glad it is this edition, as it contains the properly restored texts, rather than relying on the older, often very faulty texts of earlier editions. (I made the effort of comparing some of these at one time -- the number of mistakes, elisions, excisions, and simple rewriting, for purposes of being "politically correct" or otherwise -- was simply astounding).

And as for myself... along with the continuing reading of Poe, I am also dipping into W. H. Pugmire's Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts (which is, so far, a wonderfully eerie volume) and doing a reread (for the first time in over twenty years) of Ramsey Campbell's Demons by Daylight....
 
Picked up my housemate's Sight Unseen - Robert Goddard, it wasn't terrible, I spose.

Not sure where to go next; Stapleton beckons, but I also fancy something a bit more Gothic.
 
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