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rynne:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 25 May 2010, 14:04 ---There's also a new Dan Simmons book that sounds pretty interesting. I forget the name, but it's about a Native American boy who touches the dying General Custer's body and is possessed by his spirit (or something). Should be interesting; I've been enjoying the historical fiction phase Simmons has been going through lately.
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Is Simmons' book out yet? I don't know much about him but picked up The Terror for cheap this winter and enjoyed it quite a bit. Also, which HPL collection are you reading (I ask 'cause he's my favorite author)?
Right now I'm reading some of Algernon Blackwood's John Silence stories. I just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray. I have lined up Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (re-reading, as it’s my favorite Pynchon novel); Borges' "Library of Babel", Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory; and a collection of Ambrose Bierce's ghost/horror stories. Also as the mood strikes me, I'm reading bits of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Scandanavian War Machine:
Yeah, I just saw it at the book store, I think it was called Black Hills.
and the HPL is some sort of "anniversery" (or something) edition of Necronomicon. It's poorly binded in shitty faux-leather with gilded lettering on the front and a picture of a cthulhu statue.
rynne:
Yes, I've seen that Lovecraft book in stores. It looks like a good collection: it's got all of his major works, though the ordering perplexes me a bit.
If you're interested in Lovecraft, I recommend seeking out "The Mound," which he ghost-wrote for Zealia Bishop (it's available in The Horror in the Museum, a collection of his revisions). IMO, it stands with the best stories he put out under his own name, and contains the germs of themes he later expanded upon in At the Mountains of Madness and "The Shadow Out of Time."
Lines:
My summer reading right now consists of mostly comics: Maus, Scott Pilgrim, Sandman, and a few others. I'm also planning on reading some books I haven't read, but have been meaning to for quite a while, such as Neuromancer, the other books from Quirk, and The Hitchhiker's Guide series.
Currently I'm working on The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, next will be Maus (for the discussion thread!), and then Persuasion so I can officially have read all of Austen's books.
Scandanavian War Machine:
alright, I just ordered Maus and the new Simmons book.
:-D woohoo
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