Is summer reading just blah this year or is it me?

Just finished 'the River King' by Alice Hoffman.
It's about an odd private boarding school, the town it's situated in and some of the people that play there.

The most interesting character is found dead in the local river and I wish more of what he thought and felt was at center of this novel.
But then again it's Alice Hoffman(shrug)
3 out of 5 stars because it was a 2 day read.

Well, all private bording schools are odd. I should know...


I'm reading an entire series at the moment. I read Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, now i'm onto Speaker of the Dead. All by Orson Scott Card. There science fiction... I usually hate anything thats not horror, but these books are really good.

They only last a couple days each, but that because they suck you in and you can't put the book down. Thats the kind of book I like. Almost like a Laymon novel...

I just read Arthur Machen ´s "Tales of Horror and the Supernatural" and "Best ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood". I think those guys are the best. They have influence one of the best novel i ever read: T.E.D. Klein ´s "The Ceremonies".

You know what?
Now that I think about it...I have never read a novel about boarding schools that wasn't weird or had wierd characters in it...hmmm.

And why is Laymon such a familiar name...can you name some book titles for me please?

He wrote alot...



After Midnight

Alarums

Allhallow's Eve

AMARA (To Wake The Dead)

Among The Missing

The Beast House

Beware

Bite

Blood Games

Body Rides

The Cellar

Come Out Tonight

Cuts

Dark Mountain

Darkness, Tell Us

Endless Night

Fiends

Flesh

Friday Night in Beast House

Funland

In The Dark

Island

Midnight's Lair

Midnight Tour

Night In The Lonesome October

Night Show

No Sanctuary

Once Upon A Halloween

One Rainy Night

Out Are The Lights

Quake

Resurrection Dreams

Savage

The Stake

The Travelling Vampire Show

The Wilds (Novella)

The Woods Are Dark

Miscellaneous Praise by others...




:p






Hope that helps.
I think thats everything... :D I've actually only read like 3 or 4, but He's really good.

giving Clive Barker's The Damnation Game another chance ..
read it when it 1st came out .. didnt like the ending ... thought i'd revisit.


just finished Trevanian's Shibumi.

I recommend this book to anyone .. a lot going on for an 'action novel'

Contact by Carl Sagan (Sci-fi)

So far it's so boring that it scares me.

Thank you:)
I have been scouting the bookstores and libraries for something and now I have a laundry list!
woohoo:D

lol. Well any of these books should be good. The first one I read by Laymon was Endless Night. I loved it!!!

Well, have fun! This'll takeyou awhile... :D

I just finished the stand:complete and uncut, and now I am reading the biography of Patton: a soldiers life. It isn't what I normally rad, but it is quite interesting. After that I will read the hellboundheart