what are you reading?

[Melvin Junko]

Started with Del Toro's The Strain, only about 50 pages into it yet at the moment, so not much i happening yet. Looks like it will be a good one though.

On the to read pile are:

The Girl who kicked a hornets nest
Handling the undead
Spooky encounters (book on Hong Kong horror)

After that I'm gonna check some Wrath James White, as it was reccomended to me and what I heard sounded pretty intense.

[zombegirl]

I am currently reading 13 Bullets by David Wellington and The Walking Dead Compendium. Very enjoyable.

[maxmum]

I'm having a hard time reading at the moment, i just cant seem to settle down to read too much going on and buzzing around my head

[sherbetbizarre]

Has anyone read the Carbon Diaries books?

By far the best book I found was actually a British book that came out over a year ago, but it’s remained merely a cult hit so far, so it still fits the “new and undiscovered” category. The sequel is about to be published here and I suspect that it’ll give this series the break it needs. The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd is a far more realistic version of “The Day After Tomorrow” crossed with “Scott Pilgrim”. It follows a snarky16-year old trying to launch her punk band as she suffers through London’s first year of carbon rationing, brought on by the increasingly extreme weather that is destroying many cities. This has a very cinematic escalating structure and a real epic scope, nicely telescoped in this one girl’s dawning awareness of the problem. It all culminates in a harrowing flood that snaps all the elements together, including a surprisingly effective low-key romance.

I hear that the sequel, “The Carbon Diaries 2017”, which I want to get my hands on, will show the punk band getting more revolutionary, putting them in opposition to the reactionary anti-rationing forces that are turning to violence across the country. Any producer who feared that Laura was too much of an observer of the problem in the first book could synthesize the two and get enough active-protagonist material for a thrilling movie.

I think the main thing holding back the first book from crossing over so far is how British it is. For one thing, it’s about a 16-year old going through her first year of college, which just seem totally wrong to Americans. Would a movie need to be Americanized to give it a broader audience? I don’t see why not, but the trend now is definitely towards super-faithful adaptations, and I think it could work in the original setting too, though you’d probably want a smaller budget, just to be safe. This could work as a smaller film, too, because it’s a disaster story driven more by strong characters than spectacle.

Don’t you want to see Carey Mulligan in punk get-up, smashing the windows of high-polluting cars? I know I do.

http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2010/04/matt-bird-reviews-books.html

[xLeft For Deadx]

City of Golden Shadow - Tad Williams
Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
The English Civil Wars (1640-1660) - Blair Worden
Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
A Storm of Swords pt 1 and 2 - George R.R. Martin

[kitkat]

Found an old copy of Clive Barker's Weaveworld in a charity shop. I read this book back in the mid-nineties and had forgotten what a real masterpiece it is.

[Maniacal]

Anything Lovecraft at the minute.

[krispyg]

Have got all 3 of the Millenium books, only just finished Dragon Tattoo though.

[maxmum]

Currently reading Parasite Eve which I am glad I got around to its super.

[Maniacal]

Just picked up Clive Barkers Mister B. Gone, first 44 pages in and I'm loving it, brilliantly macabre and full of black humour.

[Mr Bill]

Finally finished Crossed by Garth Ennis.
This is an essential read for zombie/end of the world/pandemic fans, offering the most fearsome and disturbing pseudo-zombies I've seen anywhere- and I've seen most of them!
Easily knocks Blackgas into the shade.

[maxmum]

Finally finished Crossed by Garth Ennis.
This is an essential read for zombie/end of the world/pandemic fans, offering the most fearsome and disturbing pseudo-zombies I've seen anywhere- and I've seen most of them!
Easily knocks Blackgas into the shade.

Ooooo... Ima gonna have a look for those.

[maxmum]

Oh iits a comic

thought it was a book

[zombegirl]

While on the subject of comics, does anybody have any recommendations for Hack/Slash or the Eerie/Creepy volumes?

[Mr Bill]

Oh iits a comic

thought it was a book

Comics are books.