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LadyHibiscus -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 10:20:56 AM)
If I win it, I'm getting a hardcover of House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski. My paperback got lost on the path of booklending, and I have the urge to read it again.

lazarus1983 -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 12:07:51 PM)
Oooh, did that book unsettle me.

LadyHibiscus -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 12:10:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: lazarus1983 Oooh, did that book unsettle me. So cool, though! In concept and excecution. I very rarely reread books (not a photographic memory, but something akin) and that's on the short list. Might do Gravity's Rainbow this summer, too. What the hell. SCIENCE!

lazarus1983 -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 12:16:25 PM)
Indeed, I remember the scene early on where they initially find the door, and the guy with the camera walks around the wall, showing it shouldn't exist. Then reaches his hand inside, to the chagrin of his wife. I remember it well for the goosebumps it gave me.

LadyHibiscus -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 12:22:51 PM)
Love that stuff! How's your hand, BTW?

lazarus1983 -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 12:29:41 PM)
90% healed, actually. They didn't have to cut any of it off. The fingernail is about halfway grown back, and the giant missing chunk is finally growing new skin over it. What nobody can figure out is how the bone didn't sustain any damage.

LadyHibiscus -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 12:30:18 PM)
No bone damage? That is astounding.

lazarus1983 -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 12:32:09 PM)
I have my theories, but I guess it was pretty remarkable. Both the ER doc and the ortho PA were shocked.

Exidor -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 1:44:33 PM)
On paper, I'm reading George C. Chesbro's "Mongo" stories, about a former circus performer turned private detective. They're not bad. On audiobook, recently finished "Rule 34" and "The Jennifer Morque" by Charles Stross, and "Two-Bear Mambo" and "Bad Chili" by Joe R. Lansdale. Like Chesbro, Lansdale has been around a long time, but somehow I'd never encountered any of his stuff.

LadyHibiscus -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 3:47:33 PM)
OH criminy, I think I have that same Charlie Stross hanging around, on loan from a friend. I am on and off with his stuff, but Joe Landsdale is an excellent storyteller.

outhere69 -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 3:48:42 PM)
Finished re-reading James Butcher's "Furies of Calderon" series and am currently reading The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball.

DesFIP -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/5/2012 5:55:04 PM)
In trying not to spend too much feeding my kindle, I've just finished the Dr Thorndyke books by R. Austin Freeman. He is the first scientific detective in fiction. Not just fingerprints but measuring all kinds of things and figuring out how a crime could have been committed. In one, he takes plaster casts of footprints which the local police don't think about, and saves an innocent man. Most of his involve him saving someone who is framed for a crime.

LadyConstanze -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/7/2012 7:05:03 AM)
Mockingjay, 3rd book of the Hunger Games trilogy... I'm not a big film fan, so I picked up the books and find them quite hard to put down.

bighappygoth39 -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/7/2012 2:22:39 PM)
I've started reading Dark Romance by David J Hogan. It's about sex and death in the horror film, and as I have a deep love of horror films, it's very interesting indeed. So far, it's pretty damn good, anyway. After I've read that I'll be starting on a collection of ghost stories by Charles Dickens. [:)]

LookieNoNookie -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/7/2012 8:51:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus I started off my summer sweeping through a deeply silly Janet Evanovich novel. Since I now have the attention span of lint, it was a good choice, and not just because it was the book lying around the hotel room. The pile of books waiting for me is large, and my Amazon wish list has some stuff there too. Naturally I am dissatisfied with all my options. What are you reading this summer? quote: What are you reading this summer? Everything I can get my hands on. (Reading is fundamental, you know).

Endivius -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/7/2012 9:38:31 PM)
I'm currently reading about the battle of midway, I find this particular battle fascinating.

MistressDarkArt -> RE: What Are You Reading? (6/7/2012 10:15:35 PM)
2012: The War for Souls by Whitley Strieber Free audiobook download from the library. Might be available in e-book too. I lubs me some apocalyptic sci-fi from time to time. Go, aliens!! [sm=abducted.gif]

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