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So who's your fave fiction hack (or author for the uptight among you)?
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Ummm why not bodice rippers, hahaha! Ok heres mine!
SKY O MALLEY by Bertice Small - I read it so its here! I dont care if it is a bodice ripper, hahaha.
Hannibal by Tom Harris. I actually like this a little better than SOTL.
Strange but True, STORIES from JAPAN by Jack Seward - has weird true stories about a famous armless geisha and theres a really sad one about a cat that was run over by a million cars & became a splat on the road.
BLOODCURLING Tales of the Macabre by HP Lovecraft.
THE Circus of DR LAO - Pigsnie gave me this book when I was 7, it is still my favorite even though my copy is pretty beat up these days.
THE KEEP by F Paul Wilson - About a demon thingie that kills Nazis & then goes on to kill again in THE TOMB, REBORN & NIGHTWORLD. Nightworld is almost as good as THE Keep.
The Descent by Jeff Long - More demon thingies!! Someone should make a movie from this book.
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So if you look at my most recent stuff, I like fantasy & horror especially if there are demon thingies, hahaha!!! Ask me again later after Ive eaten.
SKY O MALLEY by Bertice Small - I read it so its here! I dont care if it is a bodice ripper, hahaha.
Hannibal by Tom Harris. I actually like this a little better than SOTL.
Strange but True, STORIES from JAPAN by Jack Seward - has weird true stories about a famous armless geisha and theres a really sad one about a cat that was run over by a million cars & became a splat on the road.
BLOODCURLING Tales of the Macabre by HP Lovecraft.
THE Circus of DR LAO - Pigsnie gave me this book when I was 7, it is still my favorite even though my copy is pretty beat up these days.
THE KEEP by F Paul Wilson - About a demon thingie that kills Nazis & then goes on to kill again in THE TOMB, REBORN & NIGHTWORLD. Nightworld is almost as good as THE Keep.
The Descent by Jeff Long - More demon thingies!! Someone should make a movie from this book.
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So if you look at my most recent stuff, I like fantasy & horror especially if there are demon thingies, hahaha!!! Ask me again later after Ive eaten.
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WOT? Demon thingies and no Stephen King? I'm making a list for meself (hanging around the Brits too much) soon. Stay tuned!
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Stephen King is too wordy & there are not enuf demon thingies. There is a demon car & a demon dog & some big boring spider in a cave but no true demon thingies. I think Lovecraft is really good. In Dunwich horror, the demon thingie is INVISIBLE but you can see it in your head becuz Lovecraft describes how it moves & makes hideous squelching noises, and he doesnt need 2000 pages to do it either.
I also like the ghost stories of MR James. When I was little MR James is what Pigsnie would read to me as bedtime stories, not boring fairy tales. He also read EF Benson & Algernon Blackwood.
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I also like the ghost stories of MR James. When I was little MR James is what Pigsnie would read to me as bedtime stories, not boring fairy tales. He also read EF Benson & Algernon Blackwood.
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This is just what I was looking for... I am a horror fan too, I just needed new stuff to read. I have not read Lovecraft, though Peter Straub (who I read alot) is forever quoting him. I also like Clive Barker. You know who else writes cool stuff? Ray Bradbury... I read "Something wicked... when I was a kid and couldn't sleep. Keep the suggestions coming... I'm goin to the bookstore!
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Hey that's very cool that Pigsnie would read you bedtime stories. Sounds like you're a pretty lucky guy to have a bro like him (and vice versa). Only thing my brother and I ever did was beat on each other. I read my son Tolkien, Douglas Adams, and I did read him "Eyes of the Dragon" by Stephen King. He wants ghost stories but he gets nightmares from them so I have to find him something not too scary.
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Hummmm, Peter Straub? I havent read any of his. I usually look in Pigsnies bookcase and I just read whats there. Only Stephen King I see is SALEMS LOT. Ray Bradbury, what else did he write? Ever read BLACK Easter? Thats pretty good too, a magician lets loose all the devils from Hell & mayhem enshoes, hahaha.
papapapa ... still lookin at the bookcase. I guess Pigsnie doesnt really have a lot of modern horror stuff. The MR James book is called Ghost stories of an Antiquary, if that helps. Theres also a more complete collection of his stuff but I cant remember the title.
WHOOOAAAAAH, heres one I havent seen yet -- WEIRD TALES!!! And its old,I wonder how long hes had it. good stuff!
pS. Pigsnie tried to read Tolkin to me but I shouted, NO ELVES! I hate elves, stupid things, hahaha. I didnt mind the King Arthur stuff though, that was ok. I think all parents or older bros should read to their children or little bros. YA hear me TWT????
papapapa ... still lookin at the bookcase. I guess Pigsnie doesnt really have a lot of modern horror stuff. The MR James book is called Ghost stories of an Antiquary, if that helps. Theres also a more complete collection of his stuff but I cant remember the title.
WHOOOAAAAAH, heres one I havent seen yet -- WEIRD TALES!!! And its old,I wonder how long hes had it. good stuff!
pS. Pigsnie tried to read Tolkin to me but I shouted, NO ELVES! I hate elves, stupid things, hahaha. I didnt mind the King Arthur stuff though, that was ok. I think all parents or older bros should read to their children or little bros. YA hear me TWT????
You'll find Straub a bit wordy... much like King. He wrote "Ghost Story", they made a movie of it with John Hauseman, Fred Astaire and others. He also wrote "The Haunting of Julia" and a bunch of others you've probably heard of. I tried to find MR James on bn.com... don't think it's the same guy. I ordered The greatest ghost stories of Algernon Blackwood tho.
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Hummm I think maybe Ill try a Peter Straub. Ive never seen that movie you mentioned. MR James should be easier to find if you look up by title, GHost stories of An Antiquary. I just saw another title just now, CASTING THE RUNES. I think it has more stories in it. Algernon Blackwood is good too but it took a bit for him to grow on me. He is very wordy and I would yell at Pigsnie fom bed, SO WHERE are the Demon Thingies???? It looks like he just went in the WALLPAPER! But I liked him as I grew older, hehehee.
Horror Fiction
Robert R.McCammon: Stinger, Boy's World, Usher's Passing (based on Poe's House of Usher), Swan Song (Armageddon)
Stephen King: The STAND (unabridged), Salem's Lot,
John Farris: Son of the Endless Night
CLIVE BARKER: Books of Blood, IMAJICA, WEAVEWORLD
James Herbert: EVERYTHING you can get your hands on--THE MAGIC COTTAGE, LAIR, THE FOG
TIM POWERS: (Fantasy genre but have elements of Horror. Recommend ANUBIS GATES
MANLY WADE WELLMAN: He's dead but he has a series of books which has recurring characters: JOHN THE BALLADEER series--set in the the Appalachian Mountains. (HOrror is based on "mountain" mythology. And John Thunstone--supernatural "detective"
Robert R.McCammon: Stinger, Boy's World, Usher's Passing (based on Poe's House of Usher), Swan Song (Armageddon)
Stephen King: The STAND (unabridged), Salem's Lot,
John Farris: Son of the Endless Night
CLIVE BARKER: Books of Blood, IMAJICA, WEAVEWORLD
James Herbert: EVERYTHING you can get your hands on--THE MAGIC COTTAGE, LAIR, THE FOG
TIM POWERS: (Fantasy genre but have elements of Horror. Recommend ANUBIS GATES
MANLY WADE WELLMAN: He's dead but he has a series of books which has recurring characters: JOHN THE BALLADEER series--set in the the Appalachian Mountains. (HOrror is based on "mountain" mythology. And John Thunstone--supernatural "detective"
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OTHER FICTION HACKS I LIKE:
Tom Clancy
A.S. Byatt
Michael Crichton
Michael Shea: Fantasy--highly recommend NIFFT THE LEAN
Evan S. Connell-- "Son of the Morning Star" about Custer
Umberto Eco
James Michner: IBERIA
DOuglas Coupland: MICROSERFS
Mervyn Peake: The Gormenghast Trilogy
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Tom Clancy
A.S. Byatt
Michael Crichton
Michael Shea: Fantasy--highly recommend NIFFT THE LEAN
Evan S. Connell-- "Son of the Morning Star" about Custer
Umberto Eco
James Michner: IBERIA
DOuglas Coupland: MICROSERFS
Mervyn Peake: The Gormenghast Trilogy
All for now!
Michael Crichton!!! Favorite writer of all time. Read every one of his books.
Props to:
Dean Kontz for Night Chills
John Darnton for Neadnrathal
Alexander Dumas for the Counte of Monte Cristo(best book ever written)
Props to:
Dean Kontz for Night Chills
John Darnton for Neadnrathal
Alexander Dumas for the Counte of Monte Cristo(best book ever written)
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The Chronicles of Narnia are simply amazing. C.S. Lewis might be my favorite writer of all time -- The Screwtape Letter may be (I'm not sure) my favorite book of all time. What an amazing idea for a book. Very clever.
Other than that, I dig The Great Divorce (never finished it, though), and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series (including The Hobbit). And yes, I dig Harry Potter, too. Sorry, it's the truth -- Rowling is a fine writer. Other than that, I have a fondness for non-fiction (biographies and such). If you want a nice blend of fiction and fact, go read some books by G.A. Henty -- they place fictional young men in interesting situations during important historical events, and, from what I hear, are VERY detail-oriented. Good stuff.
Other than that, I dig The Great Divorce (never finished it, though), and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series (including The Hobbit). And yes, I dig Harry Potter, too. Sorry, it's the truth -- Rowling is a fine writer. Other than that, I have a fondness for non-fiction (biographies and such). If you want a nice blend of fiction and fact, go read some books by G.A. Henty -- they place fictional young men in interesting situations during important historical events, and, from what I hear, are VERY detail-oriented. Good stuff.
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Hmm, don't read much modern fiction. Currently reading Ayn Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness, which is a novel that puts forward her views, so sort of fiction.
The last proper fiction I read was at Easter - LOTR in preparation for the film. I tend to prefer biographies, histories, classics (Dostoyevsky is my fave here) and self-improvement books, but if I had to pick a fave modern fiction author... Frederick Forsythe. Not the most challenging of reading, admittedly, but he's churned out some classics - Day of the Jackal, Dogs of War and so on. He's a British writer who writes some articles in the paper - very conservative.
The last proper fiction I read was at Easter - LOTR in preparation for the film. I tend to prefer biographies, histories, classics (Dostoyevsky is my fave here) and self-improvement books, but if I had to pick a fave modern fiction author... Frederick Forsythe. Not the most challenging of reading, admittedly, but he's churned out some classics - Day of the Jackal, Dogs of War and so on. He's a British writer who writes some articles in the paper - very conservative.
Hummm, I just had a good brekkie so now I will list the thousands of Pigsnies books (NOT!) heehee. with some commentarion.
Towing jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, Eternal Footman*
Spangle, Aztec, The journeyer*
I Claudius, Claudius the God*
The collected ghost stories of EF Benson
Casting the Runes & other ghost stories
Oxford book of Ghost stories
Supernatural tales of Algernon Blackwood
Hannibal, SOTL, Red dragon
The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel
The years best Fantasy & Horror (many many volumes)
Relic
Name of the Rose
Declare by Tim Powers - have you read this book Wortle? I thought it was going to be very supernatural but there is a lot of boring espionage in it too.
Gospel
The Keep, Reprisal, the Tomb, Nightworld -- best demon thingie books I have ever read*
Shogun, Nible House*
Sepulcher, The Fog*
Strangers in a strange Land
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, complete-Ive read only the first one, its not bad!
Hunt for Red October
Jurassic Park, Lost world, Andromeda Strain
Bram Stokers Dracula
Alice in wonderland
The once & Future King
Best of HP Lovecraft
Call of ctulhu & other Weird Stories
Iberia, Centennial*
Tons of Shakespeare stuff
Gullivers travels
Diaries of samuel Pipys
Like water for Chocolite
Plinys Natural history, LOEB Classical Library - great set with red covers. Pigsnie won them as school prize when he was a sprout, it is half in Latin, half in english.
Oh oh, snooped into Pigsnies bedside table & he is readin a book called THE AMBITIOUS GENRATION, AMERICAS TEENAGERS MOTIVATED but DIRECTIONLESS. Thats you guys, hahaha!
Well there are tons more books, a whole library full but a lot of it is Euro & asian history & travel & stuff no one else would ever want to look at like The Anglo saxon Review or The History of the Great Rebellion, snooooozzzzzzzz
NOTE- Asterisked stuff is by same author, whoever that is.
Towing jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, Eternal Footman*
Spangle, Aztec, The journeyer*
I Claudius, Claudius the God*
The collected ghost stories of EF Benson
Casting the Runes & other ghost stories
Oxford book of Ghost stories
Supernatural tales of Algernon Blackwood
Hannibal, SOTL, Red dragon
The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel
The years best Fantasy & Horror (many many volumes)
Relic
Name of the Rose
Declare by Tim Powers - have you read this book Wortle? I thought it was going to be very supernatural but there is a lot of boring espionage in it too.
Gospel
The Keep, Reprisal, the Tomb, Nightworld -- best demon thingie books I have ever read*
Shogun, Nible House*
Sepulcher, The Fog*
Strangers in a strange Land
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, complete-Ive read only the first one, its not bad!
Hunt for Red October
Jurassic Park, Lost world, Andromeda Strain
Bram Stokers Dracula
Alice in wonderland
The once & Future King
Best of HP Lovecraft
Call of ctulhu & other Weird Stories
Iberia, Centennial*
Tons of Shakespeare stuff
Gullivers travels
Diaries of samuel Pipys
Like water for Chocolite
Plinys Natural history, LOEB Classical Library - great set with red covers. Pigsnie won them as school prize when he was a sprout, it is half in Latin, half in english.
Oh oh, snooped into Pigsnies bedside table & he is readin a book called THE AMBITIOUS GENRATION, AMERICAS TEENAGERS MOTIVATED but DIRECTIONLESS. Thats you guys, hahaha!
Well there are tons more books, a whole library full but a lot of it is Euro & asian history & travel & stuff no one else would ever want to look at like The Anglo saxon Review or The History of the Great Rebellion, snooooozzzzzzzz
NOTE- Asterisked stuff is by same author, whoever that is.
HEY, Forsythe is me dads favrite author@ OllieO! Also noticed just now that there are 3 shelves of biographys up here, HA! lots of stuff about Prsident Clinton & a copy of the Ken Star report!!! Hummmm, no pictures.
Hey PLite, You should try those Gary Jennings books. Particularly Aztec... fantastic book. Oh and TWT, I like Harry Potter too. I read them all to my kids and found myself looking as forward to the next ones as they did. I have Gulliver's Travels on my nightstand but I'm currently reading Great Expectations.
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I left off my fave books War of the Rats by David L. Robins. It's the true story of the plot of Enemy at the Gates. Damn good book. Damn good.
Plite you might wanna check out a book called "Tick Tock" by Dean Kontz. I think you might enjoy it.
Plite you might wanna check out a book called "Tick Tock" by Dean Kontz. I think you might enjoy it.
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