Yes, it's a quick read, and totally worth it. And this is coming from someone who thinks, in most cases, King gets worse the more pages he adds to a novel.Quote:
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Yes, it's a quick read, and totally worth it. And this is coming from someone who thinks, in most cases, King gets worse the more pages he adds to a novel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezee E
Any Christopher Moore fans here?
I read the first 65 pages of Christopher Moore's "A Dirty Job" and am really enjoying it so far. He's quite a good writer, and his sense of humor - particularly with dialogue - is fantastic.
The only other Moore book I've read is "Lamb" which was similarly very funny. I have three or four of his books on my shelf I should really get to.
I liked Lamb a lot for the first half, less when it got into the actual Bible story.Quote:
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Reading Clive Barker's Cabal (aka Nightbreed). Really good.
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Is that a short story within a book of short stories titled "Cabal"?
I thought the book "Cabal" was a book of shorts. Perhaps I'm remembering wrong.
Yes. Cabal is a novella, coupled with 4 short stories in the book.Quote:
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30 pages to go in "A Dirty Job".
Man, I'm just drinking books up lately.
"A Dirty Job" was just hilarious. I am really looking forward to reading more by Moore. I actually thought this was better than his oft-touted "best" book "Lamb".
Funny, emotional, exciting. What an incredible imagination that man has.
I need to read Moore. I've got a couple of his books. I'm pretty sure I'll like him. I also need to read Matt Ruff and Tom Robbins. I think all three are kind of similar in tone.
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Which Moore books do you have?
I hope you like him when you get around to his work. He's a surprisingly good writer - very, very funny, and touching at times.
Like I said about, I actually preferred "A Dirty Job" to "Lamb" (which is usually considered his best).
Moving onto "Shambling Towards Hiroshima" by James Morrow.
Read the first chapter tonight. Seems quite good.
An amazing book. You're going to love it.Quote:
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Really enjoying "Shambling Towards Hiroshima".
About half through it now.
Morrow is quite a wonderful writer. His prose are elegant and funny.
It's a brilliant little book. One of those that I'd like to buy for dozens of people I know, including many Match Cutters.Quote:
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I actually had a few tears run down my cheeks when...
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What a wonderful little scene that was.
Totally.Quote:
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Finished it.
It was wonderful. Morrow is quite the writer, if this book is any indication of his career as a whole. I'm really looking forward to reading more of his work.
Speaking of Salem's Lot, I finally finished it (hey what can I say? I take my time with books these days, and I procrastinate of course :P). Anyways, its a great tale, and the last half is incredibly freaky, yet eerily plausible in every single way. I do love that he took Dracula and placed the story in modern times, giving it his own unique spin. Easily one of the best horror novels I've read, and now I'm curious to check out the two adaptations.
I think I'll try and find The Shinning somewhere, although if I can't I'll either read Christine or Insomnia instead.
So...I've begun reading Theodore Sturgeon's "More than Human" and am, well, taken aback by just how incredible this man's writing talent is.
It almost seems blasphemous for this man's work to be lumped into the sci-fi section of the bookstore along all those terribly melodramatic space operas with the cover art of scantily-clad women fighting giant intergalactic space lizards.
His prose are breath-taking.
I'm just 22 pages in and it already has me floored how beautifully he weaves the story and characters.
How very human his writing is.
I need to read more Sturgeon.
Yeah - it's an amazing book, and Sturgeon is an incredibly author.
More Than Human should be required reading. Too bad so many will overlook it because it's SF. Whenever I see this book for sale, I buy a copy for someone. So far, I've done this 5 times.
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How did you interpret Sturgeon's descriptions of "the idiot" at the beginning of the book?
When he describes his protruding bones and skeletal frame, did you see it as just malnourishment and poverty? Or was he physically..."different" looking?
I almost saw giant, skin-covered skeleton.
I think he was physically deformed to the point of being "freakish."
I bought the book for a friend of mine who had never read a SF book outside of the ones taught in high school (1984, Brave New World, etc.) His favorite authors are Hemingway and Dostoevsky. After reading More Than Human, he said he'd rank the book right along side any work of classic literature he'd ever read.
Really like it as well, though I kinda like its scantily-clad women fighting giant intergalactic space lizards cover.