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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:46 am
by maxmum
I finished the wasp factory

not sure if I liked it.

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:28 am
by Hello Doris!
maxmum wrote:I finished the wasp factory

not sure if I liked it.
heathen!
:o

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:33 pm
by zappa fan
Read it years ago....loved it. David Cronenburg should make this one.

Handling The Undead...

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:36 pm
by JSh0k
finished reading 'handling the undead' by John Ajvide Lindqvist recently...
great, great read... the first 150 pages are some of the best i've ever read and the way that Lindqvist turns from the initial horror of the dead returning to the horrifying and sometimes upsetting way that various people react to this rebirth is superb... Personally, i felt he second half didn't quite live up to the first but I believe thats a matter of taste as I wasn't keen on the direction certain elements of the story took... Ultimately I felt that it wasn't quite as good overall as 'let the right one in' but, lets face it, thats a pretty hard act to follow. Really, really good overall... might warrant a reread...

I also have to highly recommend tom rob smith's 'Child 44'... bloody great read... relentless, compelling and really well written... The closest to a movie on paper that i've ever read... well apart from scripts obviously... they're closer to a movie on paper... cause thats what they are...

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:40 am
by maxmum
I've been readin books so sad and nerdy I am not even gonna say what they are.

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:20 pm
by kitkat
Following Alan's wonderful news about the Millennium films (Larsson is a truly great author) I have recently discovered another great Scandanavian writer- Karin Fossum. If you are into that dark, nordic type of narrative then check out her first novel Don't Look Back.

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:04 pm
by Bearded Avenger
kitkat wrote:Following Alan's wonderful news about the Millennium films (Larsson is a truly great author) I have recently discovered another great Scandanavian writer- Karin Fossum. If you are into that dark, nordic type of narrative then check out her first novel Don't Look Back.
Don't Look back is indeed a great read (and has been made in to a feature film, in Italy), although it's not Fossum's first book. For some reason they've been published over here in the wrong order.

Read John Ajvide Lindqvist's Handling the Undead and thought it was a load of nonsense - after Let The Right One In I was not expecting sub-Stephen King pointlessness.

Also picked up a book by an Icelandic author I had never read before, althuogh she was no Arnadlur Indridason (who's on top form with The Draining Lake and Arctic Chill - will pick up his new one when it's in softback). Can't think for the life of me what her name is and can't see the book on Amazon.

Currently reading The Pyramid, a prequel of short stories/novellas to the Inspector Wallender books. As usual great stuff. He seems to have gone off the boil with his more recent post-Wallender books. Depths was OK, but couldn't enjoy Kennedy's Brain - to wishy washy. Got Eye of the Leopard to read next, but am told it's not up to much.

Need to check out: Hakan Nesser out Kjell Eriksson

Faves: King Henning Mankell, Arnadlur Indridason and Ake Edwardsson. Enjoed the first two Jo Nesbo books, but the third I picked up had too many co-incidences and similar plotting to the earlier ones.

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:05 pm
by dariofan25
fav author is j g ballard but reading brave new world at the moment which is good. not as good as 1984 but good

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:52 pm
by kitkat
Currently reading Exquisite Corpses by Poppy Brite. V violent and strange but absolutely amazing. My copy of Pontypool changes everything has just arrived from the States and that will be my next book.

Poppy Z Brite

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:26 pm
by goregoregirl
Exquisite Corpse is probably the weakest out of the series, did you read Lost Souls and Drawing Blood before it? Both are much better.

I just finished The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave... now reading Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel.

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:34 pm
by kitkat
Not read any Poppy Brite before but will definately check out other books by her ove the next few months as I rather liked Exquisite Corpses. But now my copy of Pontypool has arrived from US-all else is on hold for a while.

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:14 pm
by maxmum
Getting bored of richard laymon books now, he say 'well lighted' , 'panties' and 'rump' about 400 times per novel.

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:30 pm
by Hello Doris!
I'm currently reading Working Girls and their men by Sheron Boyle. Very interesting look into the many sides of British prostitution.

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:44 pm
by Vampirella
Just finished Election by Tom Perrotta much better than the film!

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:17 pm
by world_of_skin
In the middle of reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - thus far, amazing :) Anyone else read it?

Just finished my Literature degree a couple of weeks ago and I'm enjoying reading *for me* for the first time in years! It's a novelty!