Peter Straub-Hellfire club
this is the second book iv read of his only half way through ,so far once again im bored shitless...well its not too bad iv read worse ,i guess i just dont think i like peters style of writing or the characters he comes up with

I had the same problem with his SHADOWLAND. Had some nice stuff in it but have never felt compelled to read any of his other books.

yes i think it will be my last peter strawb,too many other good authers to read and discover

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Really fascinating history of how the idea of (Jewish/Christian/Islamic) God has been created and shaped by historical sociopolitical factors.

Finished Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. Kinda boring and slow.

Now i'm reading The Last Apprentice: Grimalkin, The Witch Assassin

Too bad you didn't like Summer of Night, I really enjoyed that one. Who are some of your favorite authors, maybe I can recommend some for you.

Stephen King, Richard Laymon and Brian Keene are my favorites

Have you ever read any Gord Rollo, Jonathan Maberry, Bentley Little, Mary SanGiovani, or John Everson?

Gord Rollo's Crimson, Strange Magic

Bentley Little's The Return

Jonathan Maberry's Pine Deep trilogy

Mary SanGiovani's The Hollower, Found You

John Everson's Covenant

Gord Rollo is another favorite of mine. I've read all his books. Strange Magic is one of my favorite books.

The only thing i've read of Mary San Giovanni is For Emmy but i've been wanting to check out The Hollower and Found You. I'll have to check out the others as well, thanks man. I'm always looking for new books and new author's to read.

no problem, if you wouldn't have said that you didn't like Simmons very much I would have suggested him. He reminds me so much of King. Hope you enjoy those novels I suggested. Gord Rollo and Mary SanGiovani remind me of Keene, Bentley Little and John Everson remind me of Laymon, and Jonathan Maberry somewhat reminds me of King.

have you read any simon kurt unsworth bob?hes relatively new i think.i read a short story of his,he has this real old school gothic style of writing..but new..if ya know what i mean.

anyone here like/tired...

Scott Sigler
Robert Bloch
Warren Fahy
Robert Jackson Bennett
Robert Mccammon

Sounds interesting, I'll have to check him out.

I like Robert Bloch and Robert McCammon, the other three are new to me.

Reading Naked Heat by "Richard Castle"

Seed by Ania Ahlborn, very King-ish

Just finished up Jake's Wake by Skipp & Goodfellow. This book is hard to put down, it's so out there and yet so engrossing all at the same time. The action doesn't really start until about 50 pages in, but once it begins it doesn't stop. The body count is high and those bodies endure a lot of torture. Characters are brought into the book just so they can be brutally slaughtered. There's a lot of gore, but what else would you expect from John Skipp?

The characters are flawed, almost to the point where you dislike them. Jake's ladies, the three main characters, are weak, weaker, weakest. But it makes them more realistic. But thankfully they grow as the story goes on and become stronger.

There are very strong religious themes in this book that might irritate those who hate reading anything along those lines. The book never approaches "preachy" but it's hard not to get into religion when the main baddie was a fake evangelist. There is a lot of subtext here on people who are searching for hope being easily lead, and charismatic leaders who preach the right words being able to control them. The book never degenerates into Christian bashing, nor does it wave the Christian recruiter flag, it is more a commentary of the Jim and Tammy Fay Bakers in the world. But never fear... this book really doesn't rise much beyond a fun filled horror novel, no real thought required.

I have to admit that the ending was unexpected, not all of it, but a chunk of it was out there... strangely if you had told me that the book would end like that, I probably would have said "No, that's a terrible ending!" but as I said, I didn't expect it... and it worked for me. On the whole this is a very strong book with a lot of enjoyable parts and a satisfying ending

Next up for me: The Freakshow by Bryan Smith

sounds good ,man iv been looking for bryan smith everywhere with no luck.
half way through my peter straub, the action is finally happening half way through for christ sake ,and it looks like it about a 700 page bookand it all fell in to place way too convieniantly.i mean a guy escapes from a police station(some how they are to slow in there cars to catch him once hes got his car) and when he wants to change car,the first one he comes across to hijack happens to be a guy he new,who gives him the car coz hes senile...and there happens to be 16000 bux in the glovey or something..and it carrys on.anyway its getting good finally so ill stop my bitching

Straub likes to show you his characters early on while the plot develops. If your big into characters he comes up with some of the best, but the "action" will not be as great in less you can connect somehow to his characters.

yeah some of his characters are good,most are shit ,but this book plain fuckin bores me.im three quaters through the book now and the action has stopped again and gone back to trying too hard to be mysterious and have a lot of suspense .and long convos on stuff thats spose to help me put the plot together but just bores the shit out of me.i rearly do this but i might have close this book and start a Joe R lansdale.
dont get me wrong im not just into strait splatter punk,i do like suspense and all that but it at least has to be kinda interesting,same with the characters

Man I love Straub dude, I get it though, he can be a bit dry in places. I haven't read a book by him that has bored me enough to quit reading him yet though. I haven't read The Hellfire Club, so I suppose it may not be as good, every writer has a few of those.

I love me some splatterpunk too wiz, Lansdale, Skipp & Spector, McCammon, Schow, Laymon, etc. It wasn't until about six years ago that I had even heard of the splatterpunks. I grew up reading King, Straub, Koontz, Campbell, Lovecraft, and the likes. Splatterpunk has opened me up to other writers, some old, some new, and I don't feel that the level of violence detracts from the exceptional writing these authors are putting to page. Many of them have just as much prose and poetry to it that the King's and the Bradbury's do.

iv read straubs in "the night room"and that was crap too,only tried him again coz i read a good short story of his "mr club and mr cuff".Stephin king quoted "the hellfire club "is the best book straub has written,that was awhile ago, but it says something.

[QUOTE=Bob Gray;925053]Man I love Straub dudeQUOTE]

yeah but you liked "Geralds game" :p

[QUOTE=wizard of gore;925060]Damn right!!! :P

Ghost Story, Shadowland, Floating Dragon, and A Dark Matter are all top notch IMO

i have "dark matter"but i also have a Joe R Lonsdale, ramsey campbell a tom lebbon and a catlin r kiernan which are looking much more attractive at the mo

Saw : ][ great one !

You certainly can't go wrong with Lansdale, Campbell, or Lebbon, that's for sure. Straub is not for everyone, I can concede to that, I just happen to be one who loves his work.

Have you read Campbell's Coldprint yet? It has some great Cthulhu Mythos stories in it.

no,damn i sore it at the shop but didnt get it,
started reading the first couple chapters of Lansdale,reminds me of Laymon so far..its good

Which Lansdale is it? I loved Nightrunners & The Drive-In

Finally finished The Dark Tower: The Drawing of The Three. Gotta say i liked The Gunslinger better. It was more exciting and this one just seemed like one really long introduction. I'll get around to The Wastelands at some point.

The Wastelands is better than both of the first two

cold in july..my first read of his

let me know what you think of it after you're done.

Wow that happened exactly to me too. I loved The Gunslinger but The Drawing Of The Three felt like plot filler but that was several years ago and I still haven't got around to The Wastelands yet.

Alien: The Eight Passenger by Alan Dean Foster
To be honest, I didn't even knew there was a book until I find it in the local library.
It's a exact adaptation of the movie as far as I can tell. (I started not long ago, they are just now receiving the alien signal) So, if you liked the movie, chances are, you'll enjoy the book.

Currently reading three books at the moment.

The Hole by Aaron Ross Powell.
Deadfall by Shaun Jeffrey.
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke.

Great reads, I recommend them all, particularly Kin.

I've been looking for Burke for awhile now, I always hear great things about him.

Horns by Joe Hill

tell us how that goes,iv only read heart shaped box,that was awsome ,but id like to hear if they are all as good as that