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..and the damn tv too!
I used to read a LOT before I got cable tv, around 1989.
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I've finished "Journey To The Center of The Earth". Not sure what to read now (apart from The Mirror-Glass War). "King Salomon's Mines" or the 1st Modesty Blaise novel? 
As the genius I am, I've started to read both.
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..and the damn tv too!
I used to read a LOT before I got cable tv, around 1989.
If you're TV got broken and you couldn't get a new one, would you start reading a lot of Star Trek novels and comics? 
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"
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"Well, yeah."
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Right now I'm reading Night Watch by Terry Prachett.
I was in B&N the other day and remembered this name bc. you mentioned it - I picked up one of his books, but not before one of the sales girls recommended Christopher Moore to me - so I picked up The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Bloodsucking Fiends. They were ... ok. I was expecting much, much better from the way this chick kept going on and on about how great he was. His style was in the same vein as Carl Hiassen (except dealing with the supernatural) but he's not nearly as funny or entertaining as Hiassen. The quality of his writing was light and sweet, but not enough substance to sink your teeth into.
Just read Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart which was the novella that Hellraiser was based on. Really good. Now I'm reading Books of Blood, Vol 1-3 also by Barker. His stuff gives me the chills - different than King, but just as addictive.
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I was in B&N the other day and remembered this name bc. you mentioned it - I picked up one of his books, but not before one of the sales girls recommended Christopher Moore to me - so I picked up The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Bloodsucking Fiends. They were ... ok. I was expecting much, much better from the way this chick kept going on and on about how great he was. His style was in the same vein as Carl Hiassen (except dealing with the supernatural) but he's not nearly as funny or entertaining as Hiassen. The quality of his writing was light and sweet, but not enough substance to sink your teeth into.
Just read Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart which was the novella that Hellraiser was based on. Really good. Now I'm reading Books of Blood, Vol 1-3 also by Barker. His stuff gives me the chills - different than King, but just as addictive.
You...didn't like Bloodsucking Fiends...???
I'm not sure I can be friends with you anymore. I mean, Lust Lizard was okay, but Fiends is what made me pick up every book prior to and after. I don't see any "Pookie"s in your future until:
1) You admit that Practical Demonkeeping and Bloodsucking Fiends are funny books and you enjoyed them.
2) You send me boobie pictures.
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4) #2 and #3.
Actually, let me be reasonable. Just do #4 and I'll be happy.
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Just read Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart which was the novella that Hellraiser was based on. Really good. Now I'm reading Books of Blood, Vol 1-3 also by Barker. His stuff gives me the chills - different than King, but just as addictive.
I'm absolutely sic for Barker's early stuff. Anything he put out prior to 'Thief' is bloody fucking amazing! You absolutely need to read 'Weaveworld', 'Imagica', 'The Great and Secret Show' and 'Everville'. You'll thank yourself for taking the time. They're all standout works that will leave you wondering how the fuck you ever thought King was worth reading.
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I was in B&N the other day and remembered this name bc. you mentioned it - I picked up one of his books, but not before one of the sales girls recommended Christopher Moore to me - so I picked up The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Bloodsucking Fiends. They were ... ok. I was expecting much, much better from the way this chick kept going on and on about how great he was. His style was in the same vein as Carl Hiassen (except dealing with the supernatural) but he's not nearly as funny or entertaining as Hiassen. The quality of his writing was light and sweet, but not enough substance to sink your teeth into.
Just read Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart which was the novella that Hellraiser was based on. Really good. Now I'm reading Books of Blood, Vol 1-3 also by Barker. His stuff gives me the chills - different than King, but just as addictive.
You...didn't like Bloodsucking Fiends...???
It was cute at best. Sorry, but I just expected so much better. It honestly struck me as a book that was written for JHS level reading... and had as much entertainment value, *shrug* But if you insist that Practical Demonkeeping is worth the time, I'll pick it up and give Moore another chance...
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I'll pick up PD bc you say its good and you were on the money with your Vachss recs, but BF? Meh. MEH! I say!
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Actually, let me be reasonable. Just do #4 and I'll be happy.
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Just read Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart which was the novella that Hellraiser was based on. Really good. Now I'm reading Books of Blood, Vol 1-3 also by Barker. His stuff gives me the chills - different than King, but just as addictive.
I'm absolutely sic for Barker's early stuff. Anything he put out prior to 'Thief' is bloody fucking amazing! You absolutely need to read 'Weaveworld', 'Imagica', 'The Great and Secret Show' and 'Everville'. You'll thank yourself for taking the time. They're all standout works that will leave you wondering how the fuck you ever thought King was worth reading.
Let me tell you something - I love horror books and have recently gotten into horror movies (I netflixed Hellraiser right after I finished Hellbound Heart) but surprisingly never picked up Barker's stuff. A friend of mine who is also into horror books reccommended it and I cannot - I mean literally CANNOT - believe I never read his stuff before! He is absolutely fantaastic. Certain stories in Books of Blood have literally given me goosebumps (Dread immediatley comes to mind - it totally gave me the heebie jeebies), but they have all been great. I'm moving Friday, but I'm hoping that sometime this weekend I can get back to a bookstore to pick up more of his stuff. I'll pick up your recs as well. And I actually thought of you when I saw Hellraiser, bc. I remembered your Pinhead avatar when I first started posting here. The Cenobites are so cool. (and I also saw Hard Candy which I loved was an absolute mind fuck and scarier than half the tripe out there these days, but that's for the DVD thread.)
I'm also picking up a few Robert McCannon and Micheal Laino books. I've read Poe and Lovecraft - which seems to be a basic standard - but any recs as to other horror writers you like who may be flying under the radar?
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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I'll pick up PD bc you say its good and you were on the money with your Vachss recs, but BF? Meh. MEH! I say!
In all seriousness, I'm curious: what did the bookseller say to you? How did s/he hype that novel? I love Moore's stuff - Demonkeeping and Coyote Blue are favorites, all well as Fiends and A Dirty Job (his new one). I'm surprised that the humor left you cold (heh) so I have to assume that the clerk verbally masturbated to Moore's output. I personally would've been a bit more reserved in my praise - Moore reminds me more of Pratchett than Hiassen.
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Nice try, but your PEE-SYKOLOGEE won't work on me. No P-word for you until items #2 and #3 are met!
(Pro got all married and shit...there's an opening on my love list...y'know, if you're interested an' stuff...)
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I'll pick up PD bc you say its good and you were on the money with your Vachss recs, but BF? Meh. MEH! I say!
In all seriousness, I'm curious: what did the bookseller say to you? How did s/he hype that novel? I love Moore's stuff - Demonkeeping and Coyote Blue are favorites, all well as Fiends and A Dirty Job (his new one). I'm surprised that the humor left you cold (heh) so I have to assume that the clerk verbally masturbated to Moore's output. I personally would've been a bit more reserved in my praise - Moore reminds me more of Pratchett than Hiassen.
I've never read Prachett(Going Postal is up next though), sos I can't comment on whether Moore's style is similar to his or not, but it seemed to me a poor immitation of Hiassen's style.
As for what sales chippie said - she just went on and on for 10 minutes about how fantastic he was and how he was "the funniest writer ever" blah, blah, blah...my expectations were really high after that and they weren't met...
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(Pro got all married and shit...there's an opening on my love list...y'know, if you're interested an' stuff...)
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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Finished reading Vachss' Hard Candy. It was just ok. If you hadn't read some of his other books it would be very difficult to follow - it relied way too heavily on things that had occurred in other books for a new reader to understand. Plus, it wasn't as good as some of his other books.
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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Finished reading Vachss' Hard Candy. It was just ok. If you hadn't read some of his other books it would be very difficult to follow - it relied way too heavily on things that had occurred in other books for a new reader to understand. Plus, it wasn't as good as some of his other books.
Mask Market just arrived from Amazon. Which means I have to plow through Gaiman's latest collection of short fiction, the works of Edogawa Rampo, and my annual reading of Danse Macabre before I can get to it.
Have you read Vachss' short story collections yet?
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No, I haven't gotten to them yet. Good enough to pick up I assume? I actually wanted to check out some of Barker's other books too - I really, really enjoyed Books of Blood, so his were the books I was gonna pick up next... also, there's a new King book coming out soon and that is also on my list. And mebbe Practical Demon Keeping to see if Moore is worth a further look, or this is the one example that your taste in novels sucks.
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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No, I haven't gotten to them yet. Good enough to pick up I assume?
I actually wanted to check out some of Barker's other books too - I really, really enjoyed Books of Blood, so his were the books I was gonna pick up next...
Start with "The Great and Secret Show"...trust me. 
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No, I haven't gotten to them yet. Good enough to pick up I assume?
I actually wanted to check out some of Barker's other books too - I really, really enjoyed Books of Blood, so his were the books I was gonna pick up next...
Start with "The Great and Secret Show"...trust me.
Sweet - it's now on the list. 
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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No, I haven't gotten to them yet. Good enough to pick up I assume?
I actually wanted to check out some of Barker's other books too - I really, really enjoyed Books of Blood, so his were the books I was gonna pick up next... also, there's a new King book coming out soon and that is also on my list. And mebbe Practical Demon Keeping to see if Moore is worth a further look, or this is the one example that your taste in novels sucks.
I like his short fiction. I actually wish he'd write more. Or maybe a Cross novel.
Klint suggests The Great And Secret Show. I prefer The Damnation Game. Considering my success factor, I don't think your dislike of Moore (you humorless lawyer, you ) should count towards my total...
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Klint suggests The Great And Secret Show. I prefer The Damnation Game. Considering my success factor, I don't think your dislike of Moore (you humorless lawyer, you ) should count towards my total...
Damnation game was pretty good...seriously, cold cut plate from hell...heh.
But I still hold Kissoon as Barker's best character. The guy is just the creepiest mother fucker around. Lix, anyone?
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No, I haven't gotten to them yet. Good enough to pick up I assume?
I actually wanted to check out some of Barker's other books too - I really, really enjoyed Books of Blood, so his were the books I was gonna pick up next... also, there's a new King book coming out soon and that is also on my list. And mebbe Practical Demon Keeping to see if Moore is worth a further look, or this is the one example that your taste in novels sucks.
I like his short fiction. I actually wish he'd write more. Or maybe a Cross novel.
Klint suggests The Great And Secret Show. I prefer The Damnation Game. Considering my success factor, I don't think your dislike of Moore (you humorless lawyer, you ) should count towards my total...
Sometimes the compilations of short stories makes for a better read than a long drawn out novel.
I'll prolly pick up both titles - if I like an author I have a tendency to pick up several books of their books at one time, so Barker looks like he's up next.
And I have a sense of humor - I'm friends with you, aren't I?
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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And I have a sense of humor - I'm friends with you, aren't I?
Touche pussycat.
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Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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Recently finished Neil Gaiman's latest book of short stories entitled Fragile Things. I've got a few other books on the horizon, but I think I might hit some theological stuff (seeing as how I haven't read much of that lately). I just ordered The 10 Dumbest Things Christians Do by Mark Atteberry at work tonight, so I think I'll hold off on any major reading until I can get that...
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No, I haven't gotten to them yet. Good enough to pick up I assume?
I actually wanted to check out some of Barker's other books too - I really, really enjoyed Books of Blood, so his were the books I was gonna pick up next...
Start with "The Great and Secret Show"...trust me.
Shit, I stopped at Border's on the way back from court this moring and I picked up Damnation Game since I remembered that was one of the titles that you recomended, but passed on the Great and Secret Show - I'll get it next time. I also picked up Barker's Cabal; Shadows of Death and Waking Up Screaming both short story compilations by Lovecraft; and Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. And that's after putting down other books because I didn't have enough room in my bag to carry more...
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Shit, I stopped at Border's on the way back from court this moring and I picked up Damnation Game since I remembered that was one of the titles that you recomended, but passed on the Great and Secret Show - I'll get it next time. I also picked up Barker's Cabal; Shadows of Death and Waking Up Screaming both short story compilations by Lovecraft; and Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. And that's after putting down other books because I didn't have enough room in my bag to carry more...
Wait a minute.  Were you shoplifting?
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet." Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."
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Shit, I stopped at Border's on the way back from court this moring and I picked up Damnation Game since I remembered that was one of the titles that you recomended, but passed on the Great and Secret Show - I'll get it next time. I also picked up Barker's Cabal; Shadows of Death and Waking Up Screaming both short story compilations by Lovecraft; and Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. And that's after putting down other books because I didn't have enough room in my bag to carry more...
Wait a minute. Were you shoplifting?
No, silly doctor. I was carrying my brief for court and brownies for you. Mmmm, brownies...
By the by, I read Scanner Darkly (iIRC, you like PKD) and couldn't get into it. Has he written anything better that you'd recommend?
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No, silly doctor. I was carrying my brief for court and brownies for you. Mmmm, brownies...
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By the by, I read Scanner Darkly (iIRC, you like PKD) and couldn't get into it. Has he written anything better that you'd recommend?
Scanner Darkly is pretty much when PKD was losing his fucking mind due to all the drugs he took in the past. I recommend you get collections of his short stories with stuff like Minority Report, The Second Variety, and The Short and Happy Life of the Brown Oxford. A lot of good humor and twists. There is also the novella that Blade Runner was based on called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. PKD is a good writer, but I don't know if everyone will get into him. Even as a fan I kinda wonder about some of the things he keeps injecting into his stories like News Clowns.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet." Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."
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Cool. I'll check those out when I'm done with the newest stash.
I'm halfway through Damnation Game. It's a Faust-like tale, which I didn't expect. I've never read the Marlowe or Goethe version (though I'm kinda curious now), but everyone knows the story (The Picture of Dorian Gray comes to mind right now). The only "Faust" I've ever read was the Quinn/Vigil comic book version which was sooooo hyped and so subpar. People got so up in arms over the art becaus of the graphic sex and violence Vigil drew (which was the only really good thing about the series), that they zoned in on the controversy and failed to focus on the writing, which while the story is a familiar one, was mediocre at best.
Not so, with Barker's version of this tale. I love this man's style of writing. He reminds me of King - not in the style of writing, but with the uncanny ability to hook his reader and draw them into the tale. And some of the gorier stuff is extremely well written. This is gonna be one of those books that is so good that you're almost sorry when you're done reading because its over.
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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The only "Faust" I've ever read was the Quinn/Vigil comic book version which was sooooo hyped and so subpar. People got so up in arms over the art becaus of the graphic sex and violence Vigil drew (which was the only really good thing about the series), that they zoned in on the controversy and failed to focus on the writing, which while the story is a familiar one, was mediocre at best.
Don't let Grimm know you said that.
Also, if you'd come to Dragon*Con some time, we'd introduce you to Tim Vigil.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet." Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."
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The only "Faust" I've ever read was the Quinn/Vigil comic book version which was sooooo hyped and so subpar. People got so up in arms over the art becaus of the graphic sex and violence Vigil drew (which was the only really good thing about the series), that they zoned in on the controversy and failed to focus on the writing, which while the story is a familiar one, was mediocre at best.
Don't let Grimm know you said that.
Also, if you'd come to Dragon*Con some time, we'd introduce you to Tim Vigil.
One of my favorite stories from 2005...
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The only "Faust" I've ever read was the Quinn/Vigil comic book version which was sooooo hyped and so subpar. People got so up in arms over the art becaus of the graphic sex and violence Vigil drew (which was the only really good thing about the series), that they zoned in on the controversy and failed to focus on the writing, which while the story is a familiar one, was mediocre at best.
Don't let Grimm know you said that.
Also, if you'd come to Dragon*Con some time, we'd introduce you to Tim Vigil.
One of my favorite stories from 2005...
So, you managed to pick your drunkenself up off the floor at some point?
Do tell, do tell...
And doc: IMO, Vigil's art was the only redeeming thing in Faust. The dialogue seemed stilted and Jade annoyed the fuck outta me. Most of the characters just had no depth. The only character I liked (and was rooting for) was the evil bitch, Claire...
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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I'm tring to get into PKD but I'm finding myself continuing with King Solomon's Mines and Modesty Blaise 1st. Dunno why I felt needing to borrow PKD right now.
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So, you managed to pick your drunkenself up off the floor at some point?
Do tell, do tell...
Not if you're gonna take THAT tone with me!!!
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So, you managed to pick your drunkenself up off the floor at some point?
Do tell, do tell...
Not if you're gonna take THAT tone with me!!!
But, but... I wanna know!
I finished Damnation - great read. Started Corpse - creepy read about a serial killer(s), but you have to suspend your belief from the get go. But Brite's writing is catchy.
And total non sequitur, working on the weekend sucks ass...  I've been stuck here since 9:30 - I gotta get out of the office soon...
Yeah. 
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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I already mentioned this to JM, but...I finished Corpse - it was good, not great. However, there came a point where I was felt she was just writing certain scenes - both the sex and graphic violence - for the shock value and not to move the story along. Like, "oh, I'm so cutting edge and only prudes will have a problem with what I write." Actually, that's how I felt about Vigil/Quinn's "Faust" too - like, in trying to be "oh so hip and daring," Quinn and Brite forgot that the writing had to be good and scenes should be written to get the story along.
Still, I would give Brite another shot - after I get through the stack of other books I bought...
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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Stephen King's newest book, Lisey's Story came out today - just picked it up on the way to work...
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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NYTimes review of the book... HTTP://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2006/10/23/BOOKS/23MASL.HTMLBOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'LISEY'S STORY' Her Story of Him, Both Tender and Terrible By JANET MASLIN Published: October 23, 2006 This sentence is about to do the unthinkable: connect James Joyce and Stephen King. The comparison is not made for reasons of poetry, audacity or soul-searching: Mr. Joyce has a definite leg up in all those departments. But Mr. King has delivered his version of Joycean wordplay, idiosyncrasy, voluptuousness and stubborn, obsessive chronology in “Lisey’s Story.” Here is a tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey without covering much physical terrain. It can move great distances while traveling no further than from a house (home to lonely Lisey Landon, the widow of a Writer á la King) to its neighboring barn (the late writer’s “mostly benign one-boy clubhouse”). The scope sounds modest, yet this book is haunting even by Mr. King’s standards. And he knows a thing or two about haunting. This is no occasion to make great literary claims for Mr. King, or even to exalt his linguistic experimentation. His use of language in “Lisey’s Story” is so larded with baby talk that it borders on the pathological. Here is a writer who has a thousand ways of naming a toilet, and whose work can thus be an acquired taste. But “Lisey’s Story” transcends the toidy-talk to plumb thoughts of love, mortality and madness — and to deliver them with gale-force emotion. When Mr. King writes in a coda to this blunt but stunning book that “much here is heartfelt, very little is clever,” he is telling the truth. “Lisey’s Story” sounds like Mr. King’s most honest work — even more than “On Writing,” his candid, common-sense literary credo, or the first part of “Dreamcatcher,” which described a physical calamity very much like what he suffered (in 1999) after he was hit and nearly killed by a van. In “Lisey’s Story” he takes that near-death experience one step further and kills off Scott Landon, stellar novelist. Lisey’s public role as the great man’s wife is best summed up by a photo of Scott in which only half of Lisey’s loafer is visible on the side of the picture. Despite its title, and in keeping with Scott’s dominance in life, even Lisey’s so-called story is largely about him. He does not need to be physically present to make his mark. For Lisey, Scott lives “in her mind’s eye (where the past is always present).” And he lives in the pervasive, spooky sense that he has left her a legacy of hints, warnings and messages — not just in the real world but in a fantasy realm they have visited together. Scott is of course also present in his writing. And the residue of his career looms large in her life. The one commonplace, garden-variety part of “Lisey’s Story” is a subplot that has Lisey menaced by a sadistic creep. But this sadistic creep, unlike most, is interested in acquiring the unpublished letters and papers of a big-deal author. The greater part of “Lisey’s Story” is about Lisey and Scott’s long union. And Mr. King describes it in passionate yet wonderfully quotidian ways. “I come to you and you see me whole,” Scott told Lisey when he proposed marriage in 1979 — and the moment is as alive for her now as it was back then. “You love me all the way around the equator and not just for some story I wrote. When your door closes and the world’s outside, we’re eye to eye.” This book goes beyond those words to give a palpable sense of their enduring love affair. It was deeply romantic, but also very strange. It should surprise none of Mr. King’s readers that Scott Landon, beneath the popular and presentable surface, beyond “his forehead, behind which all the exotic storyfish swim,” was one weird dude. The mind that generated all those wild (and wildly salable) horror fantasies was full of anguish, and “Lisey’s Story” hooks its narrative momentum to the gradual revelation of what Scott’s torment was like. The book loves Lisey enough to believe that once she gets to the bottom of Scott’s psyche she will be free to live a life of her own. Now we get the “gonzo-bonkie” stuff (in one of Mr. King’s tamer locutions). Scott’s memories of his monstrous father have driven him to catatonia and worse. They will dredge up unspeakable memories before the book is over, and Lisey’s true capacity as a helpmate will be tested. In this marriage, more than just a secret language is shared; Scott’s pain is also something that belongs to both of them. She begins to enter into his private world of terrible memories, thoughts which reduced the living, adult Scott to talking like a terrified child. “Lisey’s Story” also has a warmly candid sense of Lisey’s dealings with her several sisters, one of whom is nearly 60 and begins, quite startlingly, to channel Scott’s vocabulary from beyond the grave. She also shares Scott’s way of staring blankly into the distance — “or into the mystic, if you were a Van Morrison fan,” Mr. King writes. When Lisey learns that Scott consulted a doctor to arrange for this sister’s medical care “she wondered at what point in the conversation the doctor had asked Scott where he got his ideas.” In the midst of its capacity to shock and ravish, “Lisey’s Story” also has keen, witty insight into the world of a writerly superstar. As Mr. King’s coda explains, “Lisey’s Story” is full of references to books, songs, poems and movies, all of which add up to the world that had meaning for Scott. Some of these allusions are more mischievous than others. Surely Lisey’s smoking Salem Lights has something to do with the way that “Salem’s Lot,” the second King novel and great early hit, rocked Stephen and Tabitha King’s world.
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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I've been slacking on my book reading lately, trying to catch up on all my comic reading instead. Last couple of books I read were a few Max Allan Collins novels (including "Road to Purgatory" which was excellent) and a couple of PAD ST novels. I'm still trying to slog my way through Larry McMurtry's Berrybender Chronicles, but his narrative style on these books keeps throwing me off. Someday. They're certainly nowhere near as good as his Lonesome Dove novels...Also picked up the mmpb of Anansi Boys today. Can't wait to get to that one. My copy of Devil in the White City keeps staring at me from the shelf also. Picked it up a couple of years ago, but still haven't gotten around to it. You'd think that since I've got an average of four or five hours of down-time a night at my job I'd get more read, but I keep getting distracted...Plus my Chief has finally decided to enforce the "no recreational materials on post" clause in our orders, so I'll have to wait awhile till that blows over again...*sigh*
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Well, I had stopped reading it after 8 pages, then
picked it up again and stayed up very late last night finishing "Runaway Robot", by Lester Del Rey. Very good book about a 16 year old boy named Paul and his robot, Rex, whom his father had purchased when Paul was three years old while he was Governer of a city on Ganymede, 3rd of the 4 Galelian moons of Jupiter.
The family is going back to Earth..but Paul's robot, Rex, would cost too much to ship to there. It's the story of how Paul and Rex run away in order to be able to stay together.
Very good book! Now I'll have to get another book out of my collection. It feels good to be reading again!
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I'm about 350 pages into The Fountainhead (or "Ayn Rands big book of rape and sexual deviancy"). Its good, but it goes over a lot of the same stuff thats in Atlas Shrugged.
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