DAMU - did you read the DT comics?
I read the first two runs ("The Gunslinger Born" and "The Long Road Home"). The art was gorgeous, but the dialogue and story development felt a little flat. The little myth-building fables at the end of each issue was a cute addition, although I can't remember any of them for the life of me.Quoting D_Davis (view post)
Yourself?
I love Wizard and Glass.
Oh and I'm almost finished with Stephen King's Night Shift. Will try and post a proper review covering it at some point when I'm finally done.
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It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
Only the first - didn't care for it. I was wondering if the others are worth reading.
In other news....goddamn - Wolves of the Calla is just brilliant. I love the hell out of this book.
I've started reading "The Shining", preparing for a one-two of this and "Doctor Sleep".
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Did you already read "Member"?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Not yet. Not in the mood for something that dense right now.
Started reading Book of the New Sun. First book Shadow of the Torturer was cool, though becomes a bit less compelling in the second half once it leaves the torturers guild.
Will read The Claw of the Conciliator soon. I don't understand why Gene Wolfe titled all his books to sound like World of Warcraft expansions.
Reading through my libraries monthly fantasy and science fiction purchase updates.
Codex born / Jim C. Hines.
“The second book in the Magic ex libris series. Isaac Vainio belongs to a group of mages known as the Porters, an organization founded by Johannes Gutenberg to protect the innocent from wrongly used magic. As a libriomancer, Vainio has the power to pull creatures and objects from books. When he becomes involved in the search for the killer of a wendigo, type of werewolf, in a town claimed as werewolf territory, Vainio realizes that the killer actually seeks to capture Lena Greenwood, Vainio’s dryad lover and part of a love triangle that includes their psychiatrist Nidhi Shah, herself a Porter. As further complications arise, Vainio learns truths about his order and its still-living founder that make him question everything he knows about magic and about the Porters themselves.” (adapted from Syndetics summary)
Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: a Girl genius novel / Phil & Kaja Foglio.
“With the help of Krosp Emperor of All Cats, Agatha has escaped the floating Castle Wulfenbach, but in so doing she has crash-landed directly into the Wastelands. Her goal is Mechanicsburg, the ancestral home of her family, and to reach it in one piece she will join up with Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure. But nothing is ever as easy as the stories make it seem. Her travel will be interrupted as she is sought by fierce Jagermonsters, enigmatic Geisterdamen, the Wulfenbach Empire, as well as the terrifying Other itself.” (adapted from Syndetics summary)
Vampire warlords / Andy Remic. “ In book 3 of The Clockwork Vampire Chronicles series, llegendary warrior Kell must choose to flee the conquered land of Falanor, or fight for its people. Even now it may be too late, that all is lost for the Vachine invaders have called upon their ancient rulers, semi-immortal bloodsuckers who dwell on the edges between life and death. The vampire warlords have returned, and they will feed.” (adapted from Amazon.com)
Sea of ghosts / Alan Campbell.
“Thrown out of the Graveyard corps by a corrupt and weak emperor, Granger has to turn to running his own prison. It’s not a lucrative business but if he keeps his head down, doesn’t succumb to pity or morals then he may just survive. But when two unexpected prisoners enter his life then his world is turned upside down. Ianthe is young, blind and deaf, she can only see or hear through other people’s senses. This makes her unique in a world held to ransom by the powerful Haurstaf, a sisterhood of telepaths who consider the young girl a threat to their power. She’s also Granger’s daughter.” (adapted from Amazon.co.uk)
Read a short story called "The Challenge of Sleep."
It's kinda neat. Not a great story but fun for its free-wheeling invention. A round-robin short story written by five different weird fiction authors including Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. The seams really show. E.g. Lovecraft's exposition on ancient cabals and alien transfiguration cuts off, and Howard picks up the baton by grabbing the nearest sharp thing and ripping open alien skins and spilling gruey guts everywhere, because fuck talking let's get busy. :lol:
1/2 thru Doctor Sleep - it's excellent.
Totally reminds me of Insomnia. It's tense, with a good, small cast of characters, and reflects a lot on life, death, and family. It does some neat things with putting Dan in Holloran's shoes (Dan get's blasted by a young shiner just like he blasted Halloran), and it really does remind me of a version of The Shining told from Hollaran's point of view. Dan is out living his life, fighting his own personal demons, and this is what the story focuses on (for the first half), while a young girl with the shine is living thru a horror story.
“I thought you might like to know that THE SCARLET GOSPELS, a large novel which sets Harry D’Amour against the Hell Priest Pinhead,is finished, and has been delivered to my agent. I don’t yet have a publication date for it, but as soon as I do you’ll be the first to know. I won’t say anything about the narrative except this: it’s a HORROR NOVEL with the graphic violence and perverse eroticism of the most intense tales from the Books Of Blood. Please feel free to share this news with any friends who might have been wondering about the book: THE SCARLET GOSPELS ARE FINISHED.”
Aw yiss.
Motha
fuckin
Barker
horror.
Isn't it supposed to be of a beastly size, though? I distantly remember Barker talking about thousands of manuscript pages.
Yeah - it's huge. Like ~1,000 pages or something.
It's gonna take time, but I'll read all those pages.
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