What are you reading? (continued)

[Moderator]

I'm reading Night Stone by Rick Hautala. Real old school horror, in a good way. Too bad Hautala's novels are so hard to find in my local libraries/book stores.

Piece of trivia for you--Rick and Steve attended UMO together and he also lives in Maine. Nice guy.

[Bev Vincent]

He sometimes jokingly refers to himself as the other writer from Maine.

[skootie]

I'm mid-way through "The Forgotten Man", by Amity Shales. Sub-titled "A New History of the Great Depression", it's a good read so far. Very weird, in a way, as so much of what was spoken back in the '30's we are hearing today, almost verbatim. Lots of detail, but easy reading, and quite interesting.
I bought a copy of "The Gunslinger" (and also "11/22/63") yesterday, and really want to start with the Dark Tower series, so am thinking about reading "The Gunslinger" when I finish this. Wondering if I should read "The Talisman" first? I read "Black House" this past spring, and realized too late I should have read "The Talisman" first, so think that might be the case as well before I get into the Dark Tower books. I'm just not that familiar with the connections between the books.

[muskrat]

RE-reading The Big Sleep for, like, the 50th time. Nobody does it like Chandler. Here, dig:

"Rain filled the gutters and splashed knee-high off the sidewalk. Big cops in slickers that shone like gun barrels had a lot of fun carrying giggling girls across the bad places. The rain drummed hard on the the roof of the car and the burbank top began to leak. A pool of water formed on the floorboards for me to keep my feet in. It was too early in the fall for that kind of rain. I stuggled into a trench coat and made a dah for the nearest drugstore and bought myself a pint of whiskey. Back in the car I used enough of it to keep warm and interested. I was long overparked, but the cops were too busy carrying girls and blowing whistles to bother about that."

[champ1966]

I was so tempted to look at her crazy and tell her that I was his number one fan.

Oh you dirty birdie,I think you'll find I'm his number one fan

[champ1966]

The Sign and the Seal - Graham Hancock (I can't get enough of Graham Hancock,I'm his number one fan)

[Haunted]

Chances are she's one of "those" who hasn't even read any of his work and dismisses it because it's not (in her opinion) "literary." Her loss.

[Haunted]

Finished Niceville by Carsten Stroud and the reviewer was right. Kinda choppy. Meh. But it is the first in a trilogy, I will try the second to see if it comes together. Going to pick up The Prophet by Michael Koryta waiting for me at the library.

[Haunted]

I actually had a similar experience, Nadine. I was paying out at the local thrift shop. Of course I had a stack of books I wanted to buy - Stephen King, Dean Koontz. The cashier said "Oh, I love Dean Koontz. He is the man!" and I replies "Yeah... King is probably my favorite author." To that she made a face like she had just sucked a lemon and said "Ugh, no. He just...no."

Pissed me off. She'd probably just seen a couple of the movies or something.

She prefers Dean Koontz over Mr. King?????????? Koontz is ok but give me King everytime!!

[Haunted]

He sometimes jokingly refers to himself as the other writer from Maine.

just reading a review of a book of shorts stories of his, he said he was "the other horror writer from Maine". Have to check him out.