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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 20, 2017 16:38:52 GMT
Yeah, I took a long time to post this....
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Post by theravenking on Sept 20, 2017 18:29:04 GMT
Séance For A Vampire by Fred Saberhagen - a Sherlockian pastiche involving Dracula
The Unicorn Murders by John Dickson Carr
The Age Of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 22, 2017 1:10:10 GMT
Been going through a period of slow reading lately, and still working my way through The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy.
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Post by animejunkie on Sept 24, 2017 3:15:08 GMT
Still going through Stranger in A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2017 3:55:30 GMT
I'm reading Dr. No by Ian Fleming.
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Post by theravenking on Sept 24, 2017 19:38:13 GMT
I just started reading Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Sept 24, 2017 20:02:40 GMT
I'm reading It by Stephen King, finally giving this one a chance. Little less than halfway through it now and I'm loving it.
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Post by molly on Sept 25, 2017 1:57:05 GMT
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Post by darknessfish on Sept 25, 2017 8:29:17 GMT
Finished:
Dan Vyleta - Smoke - Excellent strange parable of an alternative London where anger and hate cause the emanation of smoke.
Carlos Ruis Zafon - The Angel's game. Actually, I gave up on this. Rubbish, tedious sequel to Shadow of the Wind.
Harlan Coben - Home - Ludicrous but entertaining violent dad-lit.
Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World - Nice period piece featuring an unreliable narrator in post-war Japan
Currently reading:
Ray Bradbury - Fatenheit 451
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 25, 2017 18:34:09 GMT
I'm reading Dr. No by Ian Fleming. Not to be annoying, then--I say right before I'll be annoying--but would you mind posting in my "James Bond" thread here in the book category after you've finished, then? It's a bit sparse there...  |
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 25, 2017 18:49:13 GMT
What I'm reading--ah. Not much time this month, but I'll post what little I have read... Fiction: I finally finished J.I.M. Stewart's ("Michael Innes's") Hamlet, Revenge!, a huge detective novel about the murder of the Lord Chancellor during a production of Hamlet. A good book, for the most part, even if the characters aren't as delineated as they should be in a book this size. (I remembered who the murderer's accomplice was, but when I found out the murderer, I said, "Uh, wait, who?") It was, unfortunately, not as good as I was expecting, but it was still fun, Innes's writing is of a very high quality, and it masterly managed to avoid Marshy inquisitions. I picked up a collection of Hawthorne's short stories from the library, just to learn that about half the book was ripped out for whatever reason. Still, Hawthorne and Irving are two of my favorite writers, so reading anything from either man's oeuvre is a treat. In terms of non-fiction: I've been reading Margaret L. Carter's Dracula: The Vampire and His Critics, a good overview of critical analysis on the classic vampire tale (who knew that Dracula was about imperialism, patriarchalism, capitalism, sexual liberation, and a whole slew of other goodies that Stoker never intended?  I'm kidding, I'm kidding--it is a good book, even if some of the interpretations are ridiculous), and Christopher Falkus's The Life and Times of Charles II (Charles would probably have to be my favorite British monarch, if I were forced to pick one). I've also been paging through Malise Ruthven's Islam in the World, an interesting and fair guide to the religion. So I've read a bit more than I thought at first, then, but little fiction... I'd like to remedy that, but finding the time... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 19:46:37 GMT
I'm reading Dr. No by Ian Fleming. Not to be annoying, then--I say right before I'll be annoying--but would you mind posting in my "James Bond" thread here in the book category after you've finished, then? It's a bit sparse there... LOL Sure, no problem. |
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Post by Marv on Sept 25, 2017 23:47:40 GMT
Tales of Dunk and Egg...George RR Martin
I'm currently on the final story The Mystery Knight. Good if you enjoy A Song of Ice and Fire stuff.
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Post by soggy on Sept 29, 2017 21:56:31 GMT
Well, the month is almost over, so I'm pretty safe in guessing I won't finish any more books until October. I read the following in September:
Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo by Miyuki Miyabe
Neverwhere by Neal Gaiman
Velocity by Dean Koontz
Horror Show by Greg Kihn
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 30, 2017 18:49:49 GMT
I suffered from tiredness during the month.
I did read a 1983 magazine, issue 9 of The Home Computer Course. There were articles on text adventures, portable computers (particularly the Epson HX-20, a wonderful computer in its day), floor turtles (a kind of computer controlled simple "robot"). Interesting that the possibly of using a portable computer to connect to online services was already being discussed in 1983, albeit using a modem connected to a public payphone!
The Epson HX-20 was a great computer. It was probably the first laptop computer, and a vast improvement over the notorious "portable" computers that came before it.
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Post by darknessfish on Sept 30, 2017 20:26:19 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Oct 1, 2017 3:06:40 GMT
Séance For A Vampire by Fred Saberhagen - a Sherlockian pastiche involving Dracula The Unicorn Murders by John Dickson Carr
The Age Of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker I considered starting that actually. |
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Post by theravenking on Oct 1, 2017 22:56:30 GMT
Séance For A Vampire by Fred Saberhagen - a Sherlockian pastiche involving Dracula The Unicorn Murders by John Dickson Carr
The Age Of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker I considered starting that actually. Which one? The Saberhagen is part of a series, but I didn't know this at first when picking up the book. Still, I believe it can be read as a standalone. In this sort of parallel world Count Dracula and Sherlock Holmes are cousins and have to fight other supposedly evil vampires. It's a solid pastiche sufefring from some pacing issues. It was just a bit too slow for my taste and the mystery part is rather weak. I've only read about 30 pages of The Unicorn Murders, so it's too early to tell whether I like it. The Age Of Miracles is your typical YA dystopian novel. It has a really fascinating concept, but since the story is told from the POV of a teenage girl it doesn't really fulfill its potential. |
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Post by hi224 on Oct 2, 2017 2:19:53 GMT
I considered starting that actually. Which one? The Saberhagen is part of a series, but I didn't know this at first when picking up the book. Still, I believe it can be read as a standalone. In this sort of parallel world Count Dracula and Sherlock Holmes are cousins and have to fight other supposedly evil vampires. It's a solid pastiche sufefring from some pacing issues. It was just a bit too slow for my taste and the mystery part is rather weak. I've only read about 30 pages of The Unicorn Murders, so it's too early to tell whether I like it. The Age Of Miracles is your typical YA dystopian novel. It has a really fascinating concept, but since the story is told from the POV of a teenage girl it doesn't really fulfill its potential. Unicorn. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Oct 2, 2017 2:36:14 GMT
theravenking Amusing! I haven't read The Age of Miracles, but Séance for a Vampire is on my list of most despised books. I think it's bloody awful--badly-written, with little storytelling logic or understanding of characters, and an atrocious plot. And--gee whiz--I actually like the idea of Holmes and Dracula being cousins, as wacky as that sounds. It's goofy, to be sure, but could be done well with the right light-as-air touch. No such luck. The Unicorn Murders is one of my favorite Carrs. Hope you enjoy it. By the by, I don't know if you're interested, but I've written analyses of Carr's references and epigraphs here and here. Unfortunately, though, nobody responded to the second, which--after all the work I put into it--kind of annoyed me, to be honest! If you get a chance, would you mind taking a look? I'd like to know if I did something wrong (or, indeed, boring) there.
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I'm kidding, I'm kidding--it is a good book, even if some of the interpretations are ridiculous), and Christopher Falkus's The Life and Times of Charles II (Charles would probably have to be my favorite British monarch, if I were forced to pick one). 
