The Books/Reading Thread

[TageRyche]

I finished reading the Jon Land thriller Murder on the Metro

 

[Einherjar86]

Just finished this, really fantastic. Especially in light of the Atlanta shootings, it does a nice job of breaking down the "model minority" stereotype.

 

[Bloopy]

I re-read some of Christopher Pike's more sci-fi leaning books from my teens, namely The Tachyon Web, Sati, The Starlight Crystal, The Star Group and The Visitor. The last one is the most on the horror side which just makes it silly, and it's not well explained. I think I'll stop there. His horror books were what we read when we wanted to feel more grown up than Goosebumps readers. I kept collecting them obsessively while my friends moved onto even longer, more gory books.

I could've sworn one of the books had a bit where someone gets it on with an alien and has an out-of-this-world orgasm, but I have no idea what book that was now. I thought maybe it was Sati as that one seemed to be marketed more towards adults, but nope, that just seems to be in the sense that it's kind of a spiritual/religious message and nothing very exciting happens in it. Must've been something else I read around the same time.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i was a huge goosebumps and spooksville slut myself. fond memories. they released a spooksville tv show not that long ago, i should watch that shit.

 

[Einherjar86]

Next two reads. Partway through the Kunzru, excellent book about weirdness in the U.S. southwest.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

didn't read anything durring the month of April
will start reading again soon though

 

[Einherjar86]

Thanks for the update.

jfc do you have to post in every single fucking thread?

 

[Bloopy]

With a signature that's 7 times as tall as the post content too. Fix that shit @Blurry_Dreams ffs.

I re-read Rodney Mullen's autobiography, quite the insane unbringing. Now reading Middlesex.

 

[CiG]

I had no idea you had an interest in skateboarding man, I still need to read Mullen's autobiography. Been sitting on me shelf for years!

 

[Bloopy]

I mentioned Santa Cruz's Streets on Fire previously, such a great video. I gradually started seeing a bit of skating on TV and checked out more videos online. Then I got fully stuck into Mr Hawk's video game series. I did eventually get a skateboard but too late in life to really get around to doing anything with it. Need some garage space so I can mess around in secret where nobody can see me, like Rodney's barn, haha.

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading Murder, She Wrote: Murder In Season by Jon Land the other day. It's the 6th and final entry in the series for him and like the others, it was a really good read.

I'm in the midst of reading The Nemesis Manifesto by Eric Van Lustbader.

I'm going to a distanced book signing later today for an author whose work I'm a big fan of. Afterwards, we are going to grab some dinner.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

jfc do you have to post in every single fucking thread?

yes

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

With a signature that's 7 times as tall as the post content too. Fix that shit @Blurry_Dreams ffs..

done

 

[TageRyche]

I got an advance copy of the upcoming Maddie Day Country Store Mystery NO GRATER CRIME last week. I finished it yesterday and wrote my review of it over on Goodreads.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

speaking of "advance copy"
i read an advance copy of "emporor of the universe"
as far as i know, the only difference between the advance copy "not for sale" copy i had and the version people were able to buy is that the version people bought had "illustrations throughout"
but
even before the illustrations existed, the copy i read was fucking hilarious
it was like reading a douglas adams book somehow written after adams died

 

[Einherjar86]

Been reading a lot of fiction lately, which has been awesome--but a few theory/history books have come in lately, and I'm psyched to get my hands a little dirty. All of these are on sociopolitical change in the Anthropocene, but focusing on various aspects: race/racism, industry/extraction, and urbanization/city planning.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@Einherjar86
gah
go read some fiction already

 

[Einherjar86]

@Einherjar86
gah
go read some fiction already

Been reading a lot of fiction lately

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

does it really matter??

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Kentaro Miura, author of the Berserk manga, has passed away at age 54. Rest in peace to a legend.