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Zombiezilla · #61 Post by **Zombiezilla** » January 10th, 2008, 4:29 pm

razorwyre1 wrote:just finished clive barker's latest "mister b. gone". lovely stuff.

I was going to get that, but I have read soooo many bad things about it I decided to wait for a paperback release, or just skip it all together.

My reading went onto hold, kind of. I bought myself a Nintendo DS with my Christmas money. The game I am playing is called Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and is actually a real cool mix of mystery novel and video game. The whole dang game is reading and figuring out the mystery, but seeing it unfold on the video screen. Pretty dang cool actually. It is even broken into chapters. I'm on chapter 4 right now.

Tim Fortuna · #62 Post by **Tim Fortuna** » January 10th, 2008, 9:59 pm

I love Clive Barker but haven't read anything of his since Sacrament. I have Galilee and Cold Heart Canyon but can't seem to get into them. Hopefully he's gone back into his horror theme.
Is that book any good Razor?

temperflash · #63 Post by **temperflash** » January 11th, 2008, 12:16 am

modeljunky wrote:Picked up a great book....The great American pin up....Its a history of pin up art in America...great bios on all the artists and hundreds of photos...

I received a coffee table book of Pin Up art by one particular artist. I loaned it to a friend a couple of years back when I ran short of space for books here and he had just finished remodeling one room in his new home into a library. I let him keep several other large reference books as well. I figured since half the really nice books I'd ever read were either borrowed from him or bought because he suggested them to me I might as well help him start up a really nice collection to replace the several hundred books he'd lost to a flooded out appartment not long before.
I just installed two more bookcases and it barely makes a dent. There are so many books here I can't go through them all to find the ones I want when I need them.
Guess its time to cull the herd and contribute a bunch of them to charity.

modeljunky · #64 Post by **modeljunky** » January 11th, 2008, 12:45 am

UUUGGGGHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Borders that I love so much is closing.....1-12 is the last day..
anyone near rt 18 in East Brunswick N.J. should head on over....everything 40% off

boafamily · #65 Post by **boafamily** » January 13th, 2008, 7:32 pm

Thresholds of the Mind by Bill Harris

The Harlequin · January 16th, 2008, 8:51 am

Currently reading "Friday" by Robert A. Heinlein

- The Harlequin

toxict35 · #67 Post by **toxict35** » January 17th, 2008, 12:15 am

99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale by David Wellington.

Tony

modeljunky · #68 Post by **modeljunky** » February 8th, 2008, 1:53 am

Well I finaly got threw Wicked.....I liked it, I thought some parts could have moved a bit faster, but overall an enjoyable book...

Now I started 2012 by Whitly Strieber.....the only other book by him I read was Communion.

scammc · #69 Post by **scammc** » February 8th, 2008, 2:22 am

Finished Stephen King's Dark Tower series (read from start to finish without the wait) and I am about done with "I am Legend" (wiht some other short stories by Mathieson). After that I am going to try "The Historian".

MC

rmblair · #70 Post by **rmblair** » February 8th, 2008, 3:18 am

Currently reading " Fight Kyoto" by Ezra Levant

Wes · #71 Post by **Wes** » February 8th, 2008, 9:19 am

hmhm "Wintersmith" from Terry Pratchett

and some forgotten realms books!

Nalissa2 · #72 Post by **Nalissa2** » February 8th, 2008, 1:10 pm

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

-Susan

ManthingVT · #73 Post by **ManthingVT** » February 9th, 2008, 10:22 am

Just starting The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr. It's a Sherlock Holmes novel commisioned by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

toxict35 · #74 Post by **toxict35** » February 9th, 2008, 4:58 pm

The Terror by Dan Simmons. I'm not far enough into it yet to know whether it's more historical fiction or just horror, but it's typical, well-written Simmons either way.

Tony

gothiken · #75 Post by **gothiken** » February 11th, 2008, 4:36 pm

"Operation Broken Reed.. Truman's secret North Korean Spy Mission that averted WW3"

by LT COL. Arthur L Boyd ( Ret )

Kenny

#76 Post by **Batmaniak** » February 11th, 2008, 5:19 pm

I just finished The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. It was a Giller prize winner in Canada and a very quick and engrossing read.

Now I'm reading Bret Hart's autobiography Hitman - My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling.

DETHSTRYKER · #77 Post by **DETHSTRYKER** » February 11th, 2008, 6:45 pm

Currently looking for a really good Military sci-fi book. any recommendations?

Cliff Green · #78 Post by **Cliff Green** » February 11th, 2008, 7:45 pm

[quote="DETHSTRYKER"]Currently looking for a really good Military sci-fi book. any recommendations?[/quote]

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, Startide Rising by David Brin, or Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Sci Fi doesn't get any better than these books. Oh, and they all have military themes.

DETHSTRYKER · #79 Post by **DETHSTRYKER** » February 11th, 2008, 7:51 pm

read the first and last but not the middle one. will check it out.

DaveP · #80 Post by **DaveP** » February 15th, 2008, 10:43 pm

For military sci-fi also check out Forever War by Joe Haldeman and Harry Turttledove's excellent alternate history Guns of the South (racist group from South Africa goes back in time to arm the south with modern weapons during the Civil War) and his World War series (alien invasion in the midst of WWII).

I'm working on Tom Brokaw's BOOM and Ken Burns' The War.