Books: What have you been reading?

[Reviresco]

I forgot about that film. Yeah, that was good, too.

Sinise read the audio version of Of Mice and Men that I listened to, so I sort of got a preview of the movie. I'm going to see if I can find the Burgess Meredith version you mentioned.


Just finished Caleb Carr's THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS, so I'm now ready for the new show, The Alienist.

[Jack Dracula]

Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light.
It's an awesome book. I re-read it every few years and never grow tired of it. Not too long, packed with humor, drama, super powers, Hindu gods, assassins, aliens and epic battles.

During the 1979 Iranian hostage crises the CIA launched a rescue operation posing as a movie crew scouting locations for a film version of this very book. As part of the operation the CIA had commissioned Jack Kirby to produce fake conceptual drawings and set designs. Here's a few of those:




The actual events surrounding the failed rescue mission were the inspiration for the movie Argo released in 2012 starring Ben Affleck.

[The Darknight Detective]

Sinise read the audio version of Of Mice and Men that I listened to, so I sort of got a preview of the movie. I'm going to see if I can find the Burgess Meredith version you mentioned.

If you like old B&W movies, you should like it.

Just finished Caleb Carr's THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS, so I'm now ready for the new show, The Alienist.

I'm going to give the show a try myself. Looks interesting.

Back to my reading... on the Kindle, it's the 8th Allan Quatermain book - Finished (1916) by H. Rider Haggard.

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading the Paige Shelton mystery "Of Books and Bagpipes".

[The Whovian]

Just finished book 6 of the Expanse series "Babylon's Ashes" and I'm now starting the 7th book "Persepolis Rising" that just came out.

[Kai "the spy"]

I'm on the last 50 pages or Ready Player One, while also still going back to my Complete Conan book when I have downtime at work. The last Conan story I finished was Queen of the Black Coast.

For toilet literature (as in, what I read while sitting on the toilet), I'm currently reading the Thor issue of Archie's Marvel Digest series.

[The Darknight Detective]

while also still going back to my Complete Conan book when I have downtime at work. The last Conan story I finished was Queen of the Black Coast.

I have a collection waiting to be read in the future.

For toilet literature (as in, what I read while sitting on the toilet),

Not to be confused with literature that should be flushed down one instead.

[The Darknight Detective]

On my Kindle, Clive Barker's fourth volume (1985) from his Books of Blood series is now ready to be read.

[BaneBreaker]

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Its a different writing style than I'm used to. I'm only about 50 pages into it so I'm not 100% sure on how I feel about it yet.

[The Darknight Detective]

It's now the 9th Allan Quatermain book by H. Rider Haggard - The Ivory Child (1916) - that's now being read on my Kindle at the moment.

[Vegan Daddy]

It's now the 9th Allan Quatermain book by H. Rider Haggard - The Ivory Child (1916) - that's now being read on my Kindle at the moment.

But is Haggard's Quatermain as good as Sean's Quatermain?

[Vegan Daddy]

Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I had to check this out after reading Melville's essay Hawthorne and His Mosses in which he writes:

Already I feel that this Hawthorne has dropped germinous seeds into my soul. He expands and deepens down, the more I contemplate him; and further and further, shoots his strong New England roots into the hot soil in my Souther soul.

Tell us how you really feel, Herman! If that doesn't sell you on a book, I don't know what will.

[The Darknight Detective]

But is Haggard's Quatermain as good as Sean's Quatermain?

Come on, now. Can anything top Sean playing a character?

[Deathstroke]

Horror writer Jack Ketchum has died.

[Ragdoll]

Been on a re-read kick lately. Things I finished over the last few weeks:
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard
The Stranger by Albert Camus
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Candide by Voltaire

Horror writer Jack Ketchum has died.

Major bummer. As a horror writer, he was a huge influence on me.

On my Kindle, Clive Barker's fourth volume (1985) from his Books of Blood series is now ready to be read.

Barker is one of my favorite novelists, but I've never really enjoyed his short story collections. Not sure why. But I'd read anything he puts out at this point out of loyalty.

Just finished book 6 of the Expanse series "Babylon's Ashes" and I'm now starting the 7th book "Persepolis Rising" that just came out.

I loved the newest book. I believe there are only 2 more books left in the series, it's going to be a wild ride.