*adds to wishlist*

Been readin' the new Sandman Slim
Richard Kadrey: Killing Pretty

Reading
 

Midnight in the garden of good and evil. Can't put it down

The Complete Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

OLD FLAMES-Jack Ketchum. Pretty good novella about a mentally unstable woman trying to re-connect with an old flame. Like a lot of JK's work, not sentimental and another bloody rampage added to the mix. Worth checking out.

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Very poor. Its all poetry, but the language is boring. Basically some sentences cut up into a poem form. No use of format beyond that. The pictures are poorly altered photographs. All around very disappointing, something I'd ask for my money back.

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS-Superlative book of the Iwo Jima flagraisers with detailed chapters of the battle and their personal lives. One of the BEST books I've come across in awhile.

just finished readin' these two....
Haunted Legends : Ellen Datlow
The Dark : Ellen Datlow

HEROES AND VILLAINS-Great yet sad book about The Beach Boys. So much drama by all of them and so much great music.

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The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez.

Fantastic read. Márquez is always fucking amazing. This is a somewhat fictional accounting of the last year or so of Simón Bolívar's life. It has him reflecting on his past, what the future will be. Has a dreamlike feel to the story, which Márquez is known for. I highly recommend it. 8/10

About half way through The Dead Sea Games. Pretty legit Zombie book. I have read a ton and its one of the few that takes a look at a post zombie apocalypse in New York city, but there is no hope of winning or getting away. It concentrates on a group who managed to survive what they call the emergency and are now living on the rooftops as the never ending sea of the dead flows through the streets below. Its pretty damn good.

Guillermo Del Toro, Cabinet of Curiosities

you know what is odd.... I really dont read books (i live sports and basically read sports articles and such).

but i am going to take down a bunch of these that are intriguing!!! hopefully i can get involved more with the books (especially scary stories)!!!

the odd thing is that I love writing and over past year have been writing many different short stories that I am still working through, tweaking up, and writing new ones as well. Odd that I dont really read others.

is this written by Guillermo Del Toro??? definitely will be my first one i get!!!

A Headful of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

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What Strange Stars and Skies by Avram Davidson

A collection of Davidson's short stories. He's very adept at writing how people speak or what they say for various parts of the world. He's one of those writers that knew so much information and could play with it in his stories. This particular collection of stories were either humorous and fun or very dark. If you haven't read his short stories you must! 8/10

The Cipher by Kathe Koja

A reread for me. Basically a nothing guy and his sometimes lover find a hole in the storage closet of his building. Light shining into it reveals nothing, its just there. Obviously things happen involving "The Fun Hole." Koja is one of my favorite writers. Her stories and characters are enthralling; the writing is insanely good. This book is all about horror. 9.5/10 Here's a quote from the book I typed up for my quote file:

“Gone as usual in the morning, and me left behind and naked, inner thighs lightly scaled with the dried spoor of our lovemaking: she liked to stay on top afterward and let the juice run down, and I liked whatever she liked. Imagining in the shower that I could smell her still, the angular scent of those secret bones, had she always smelled so fierce and good? Recalling those gone times, old memories lit by the fire of the new, I did not this time wonder how long it would last; I was too smart for that now. Take what you get, and don't think. Of course it could never be that easy, but there were moments, like now, that I could successfully pretend that it was, and I had no inclination to try to peer past those moments. I'm not one who wants to know the future: at the best it spoils the present, with longing or dismay, and at the worst, well. Who really wants to find out how tight the sling is, for your very own personal ass, who wants to know how deep the shit will really be? Not you. Not me either. Because its rarely ever bliss saved up, is it, when you finally get there. I'll take my now, waking with a lover's scent still on me, around me, take my hopes before they're maybe tragedy; a good morning, even if it leads to apocalypse at night.”
---Kathe Koja The Cipher

OLO, I recommend this highly. It's a visual history of Del Toro's work and it's an amazing book. Illustrations and pics fill every page. Check it out for sure if you're a fan.

Don't know if these count as books, but straightening out my cluttered office and found a lot of my old monster magazines..good memories, but a SHITLOAD of FANGORIA's!::shocked::

Unlikable by Ed Klein about Hillary Clinton.

Unlikable by Ed Klein about Hillary Clinton.

As a woman I would like one day to see a female president, BUT NOT HILLARY

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Six friends who are fairly insane, male, and in their 20s get together to sing karaoke and act in a fairly fucked up manner. One of them decides he wants to know what its like to kill someone. So he kills a woman, who happens to be part of the Midori society. The Midori society is a group of average women all with the last named Mirodri and in their 30s who get together to sing Karaoke at a karaoke club. The conflict escalates.

Decent. Fun. Worth a read. 5.5/10

Ava: My Story by Ava Gardner.

noctuary by thomas ligotti
::love::

What do you think? It's been on my wish list for sometime.

at first i didn’t really care for his voice. a bit verbose, almost anti-seductive. but i think he really loses himself & goes somewhere (conceptually) that another style wouldn’t really reach. so that imagination is the main appeal for me.

I'm a bit new around here, so I'm not sure how familiar you are with Ligotti. I haven't Noctuary, but I was able to get a compilation called Shadow at the Bottom of the World years ago. I liked his stories. If you haven't read him, he is far different than anyone else out there (sorry if you have read him and I'm being redundant). People want to compare him to Lovecraft, but I think the two are wholly different.

Ligotti didn't click for me at first. It took some time for me, a few rereads of his stories, before it stuck with me.

The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood.

The Plague, Camus

Just a few more pages to go before I finish this:
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Contains some good stories, especially the one by Ambrose Bierce. Didn't realize what a cool writer he was.

Brand new! (copyright 2015)
The Monstrous: Ellen Datlow

Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder, by Mark Nelson and Sarah Bayliss

Imo, the definitive illustrated book on the subject. I've read this sucker at least 4 times.

Started this:

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Pretty darn good so far considering lost world stories have long since passed their prime.

OH YEAH!!! Just put the new Stephen King on hold at the library it's called The Bazzar of Bad Dreams::smile::
Currently readin' James Herbert: The Ghosts of Sleath

Currently about halfway through Jurassic Park. Never read it, it's way different and pretty good.

Reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Is it any good?