...about reading...

[dreaming neon darkspot]

oh yeah, and has anyone read House of Leaves by ... some guy with a really long and difficult last name? i hear that this book is crazy/good/crazy-good and found a copy of it at aforementioned bookstore. looks like it's pricy since it's one of those spiffed-up editions.

also looking into a book called Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist. it's $26 but i want it sooo...

does anyone know of a complusive book-buyers helpline? i think i need to make a call...

 

[Winston co.be.]

now i'm starting on another one of those short horror story collections that i buy complusively.
...Don't I know it!
No help!
No cure!

 

[Winston co.be.]

1984 is great. Neil Gaiman is (pun intended) godlike. have you checked out the Preacher comics? EVERYONE should read them if they are worthy of life.

Preacher comics...
You hit the mark! But, sooner or later this is bound to happen!

Ah, really a good pun!

 

[Cephalopod]

now i'm starting on another one of those short horror story collections that i buy complusively.

Short story collections are the BEST. Great for those of us who don't have enough time to read entire novels. I'm in the middle of a couple of Stephen King's short story collections now. Other than that, I'm also working on some Lovecraft again, and I just borrowed Choosing Death: The Improbable history of Death Metal & Grindcore, and Sound of the Beast: History of Heavy Metal from a friend of mine.

 

[Anvil]

I started those during the summer at first I was really into them then halfway through book four I stopped. I dont know I guess I just overloaded on them and needed a break I keep wanting to finish it. Great books though. For me, a book n00b at least.

They really start to slowdown around book 6... They become really dragged out. Anticipation to what happens next is the only thing that keeps you striving throughout the series, except from book 6 to book 10, so far there hasn't been that much of a development.

 

[unknown]

so i went to this little bookstore down the street and asked if they could look up any Thoman Ligotti books. the only one that i knew of was Nightmare Factory. the (creepy old) guy at the bookstore said he could order Shadow... then looked up NF for me. Apparently, a CHEAP, USED version of that book is $70. so just how good is this guy??

I wouldn't buy it. Fuck for $70 you could probably find it way cheaper on the net (use http://froogle.google.com) Plus Shadow... basically has all of the awesome stories from The Nightmare Factory in it (and one that isn't).

And House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski is an amazing book. It look pretty intimidating, but once you start it, you get used to it. I read it in under two weeks, I was absolutely hooked.

EDIT: The Shadow At the Bottom of the World for $13

And yeah. Ligotti is worth it. $70 is nothing. I know guys who have paid upwards of $400 for some of his stuff. If you like Lovecraft, then you'll love Ligotti.

 

[derek]

I dunno if that's true.

Lovecraft is a product of his time and personality. For me, NO-ONE beats Lovecraft for describing the ineffable. When you come across a writer who can make you feel/experience a music that is intangible, then it's curtains for me and I refuse to read anyone else, ever.

The music of Erich Zann - my favourite short story of all time. >3

 

[unknown]

I didn't say he beats Lovecraft, but Lovecraft was Ligotti's biggest influence and countless articles have been written drawing comparisons to the two (including an article by S.T. Joshi)

 

[derek]

Oh, I did not mean to deny it - only to say I'm a Lovecraft fan-boy.

 

[unknown]

as am I

you should look into Ligotti as well

 

[derek]

I plan to, don't worry.

A buddy of mine got into Lovecraft just after I did, back in ze day, and he has mention this Ligotti charater on a few occasions. I shall check it out immediately.

 

[unknown]

hooray! I require a full report with details, graphs, charts, and a jockstrap.

 

[derek]

I have videos. Rather sexy videos.

 

[unknown]

is there a donkey involved? if so, good

 

[derek]

A donkey is involved the first video, but we killed it, so it does not make a repeat appearance.

 

[unknown]

 

[ShadowsWithin]

meh only reading I do is dragonlance...yes im a nerd I found one at a yardsale read it and have been buying them ever sense...

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

The music of Erich Zann - my favourite short story of all time. >3

there's this little cobblestone street running right along the other end of my dorm building, going up a hill. cobblestone! right in the middle of a city! haven't walked up it yet, but whenever i walk past, i can't help thinking of that story. it looks all slanted and disproportional and just not of this dimension.

 

[Karmic]

Foreign litterature isn't really in an abundance around here, so I take what I can find....

Oh, and for the record, I loooove Bradbury. Short stories, long stories, most of it. <3

Right now I'm reading through the Dark Tower books by Stephen King, as well as The Art Of War by Sun Tzu. Other then that, I'll have to look some more for more litterature. Someone has some Dostojevsky (sp?), but after that I'm screwed :/

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

Behold!!! The answer is in the patterns of the astrologica metamorphis of arechaelogy!