Book you just finished reading....

[Misfit]

right now i am finishing up Last night i dreamed of peace, the diary of Dang Thuy Tram, great read 8/10 :bigthumbup:

[K.I.N.G]

Last one was Dean Zoontz's Frankenstein Book One: The Prodigal Son, wasn't bored for one page 9/10.

[Cellar Dweller]

From a Buick 8, was a lot better than I thought it was going to be.

[darkoverlord]

R.L.STINE superstitious 8/10

[Aurone]

Congo by Michael Chriton. Very good book, yet still shocked at the differences between the book and movie.

Still good though. 8/10.

[Grendel]

Congo by Michael Chriton. Very good book, yet still shocked at the differences between the book and movie.

Still good though. 8/10.Eh. Got into his books to a serious degree several years ago. Dude can write page-turners like nobody's business...until you get to the end.

9/10 times I was pissed when I got to the finish, because the rest of the story made his half-assed endings that much worse by comparison.

[Chief Falling Rock]

Congo by Michael Chriton. Very good book, yet still shocked at the differences between the book and movie.

Still good though. 8/10.

yeah their extremely different. Still makes me chuckle seeing Bruce campbell in the beginning of the movie. Jurassic Park is a pretty different read too.

[Misfit]

:nod: yeah jurassic park had large water raft scene that didnt end up in the movie

[Aurone]

Eh. Got into his books to a serious degree several years ago. Dude can write page-turners like nobody's business...until you get to the end.

9/10 times I was pissed when I got to the finish, because the rest of the story made his half-assed endings that much worse by comparison.

Yeah, that's what I've noticed about Chriton books, I'v only read Jurassic Park and Congo (tried Sphere but couldn't get into it) and he has a habbit of ending at a slower note.

[RampantChaos]

On a Tolstoy kick right now.

Just finished The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and just started Anna Karenina.

Also in the middle of Blaze by Stephen King.

[Godfatha]

The last was a Punisher graphic novel series, and I'm working my way through The Lovely Bones, and I have to say it was rather depressing for a while.

[Cellar Dweller]

The last was a Punisher graphic novel series,

Was it Welcome Back Frank?

[Luris Blear]

Radicals and Visionaries: Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the 20th Century (http://www.amazon.com/Radicals-Visionaries-Entrepreneurs-Revolutionized-Century/dp/1891984136)

An excellent read, if very light. Pretty much a collection of 3-5 page biographies of people who succeeded from all walks of life. Very inspiring stuff. It was both research for a writing project and for new personal inspiration.

Next on my list: Ogilvy on Advertising (http://www.amazon.com/Ogilvy-Advertising-David/dp/039472903X).

[Grendel]

Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie, by Hunter S. Thompson.

The once and only king of gonzo journalism. The Doc rocks.

[slasherman]

Just finished up The Stand by Stephen King. Awesome read, I couldn't put it down till the end. 9/10

[Misfit]

just started brian keene's terminal

[Aurone]

Just Finished a book called "Spin". It's a weird Science Fiction book, it fallows 3 Kids, twin brother/sister who're raised ritch and the son of the house maid, all early teens who're outside in October when suddenly the stars are covered completly, like the night sky is just one giant black sheet. It's later revealed that the cover is slowing down Earth's time, for every second that passes on Earth, 3.17 Years passes for everything else in the Universe.

Had me intrigued from beggening to end, I'll have to read the sequel "Axis sometime.
9/10.

Now I'm starting into Book 3 of Stephen King's Dark Tower Series: The Wasteland.

[darkoverlord]

R.L. stines fear street seniors let's party 5/10

[Misfit]

just finished brian keene's terminal 8/10..

[Misfit]

now starting battle royale vol 6, gonna finish this series before i start another novel

[K.I.N.G]

Lucky, still in search of Volume 2.

[Luris Blear]

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy - Orson Scott Card.

Next I may try a different kind of fun. I'd like to add a decent book for cold reading people next, but it looks like I can pay $6-12 for silly magic tricks or $60 for a good book.

[WarBeast]

Next I may try a different kind of fun. I'd like to add a decent book for cold reading people next, but it looks like I can pay $6-12 for silly magic tricks or $60 for a good book.


It may be that I'm just drunk, but I really don't understand what your saying, man....

... I'm not being a smart-ass here... just would like a bit of elaboration.... I don't get what you mean.

[Misfit]

just finished battle royale vol 6....9/10

now on to battle royale vol 7:thumbup:

[Gatsu18]

I'm in the middle of "Going Postal" by terry pratchet.... I don't know one way or another. It's a book. Nuff said.

[BooBerry]

Just finished reading Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box which was amazing. Then I read and dissected The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for something I'm working on, but enjoyed the classic that it is.

Right now I'm reading Hero about a fictional justice-league type world and follows a young superhero who also happens to be gay (but hiding it.) Very nicely told from a 1st person POV. Stan Lee gave it props.

[Thunderstrand]

Just finished "Darth Bane: The Rule of Two". This is the second Darth Bane book. If you're a Star Wars geek (especially one who roots for the bad guys) these books are great reads. Both (the first one being "Darth Bane: Path of Destruction") are about the Sith lord who created the Rule of Two (One to possess the power and one to lust for it). :bigthumbup:

[Snuggle]

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy - Orson Scott Card.

Next I may try a different kind of fun. I'd like to add a decent book for cold reading people next, but it looks like I can pay $6-12 for silly magic tricks or $60 for a good book.
Check out Practical Mental Magic for Cold Reading. It's pretty funny to scare the shit out of your friends with the tricks in that book.

I just finished Il Principe by Niccolò Machiavelli. It's just amazing how some of his political strategies are still in use today and how revolutionary this book is. It isn't very exciting but it was pretty interesting.

[myersgirl13]

Nightmare House by Clegg-it was decent, he's no laymon but it was a fast read none the less

[Misfit]

just finished battle royale vol 7...9/10 and battle royale vol 8....9/10


now starting battle royale vol 9

[WarBeast]

Nightmare House by Clegg-it was decent, he's no laymon but it was a fast read none the less

I've read some douglas clegg here and there... pretty sure I've read that one and thought about the same as you did... decent read.

[myersgirl13]

:nod:

[Misfit]

anyone else enjoy some poetry?.......:straightface: got into some stuff due to the english degree...

[BooBerry]

anyone else enjoy some poetry?.......:straightface: got into some stuff due to the english degree...

This has always been my favoite poem. Fire & Ice by Robert Frost.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

[Misfit]

:hmmm: interesting

[Aurone]

Dark Tower 3: The Wasteland. 9/10. For a nearly 600 page book, I zinged through it in just over 2 weeks cause I couldn't put it down. But now I'm bummed since Wizards and Glass (I think that's the title of DT part 4) is out of comission. I don't want to fucking wait on this series, it's been so damn good.

[VM666]

Duma Key by Stephen King. Absolute must for any King fan, Wireman is a fantastic character. Felt slightly dissapointed at the ending, felt it was a little anti-climatic 8/10

[Terrorsick]

Just started getting into the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley.
On book II:Vamphyri. Not bad. Jack Ketchums new book Old Flames
was a bit of a let down from his previous efforts. Sorry Jack, still
a big fan.:straightface:

[WarBeast]

Just started getting into the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley.
On book II:Wamphyri. Not bad. Jack Ketchums new book Old Flames
was a bit of a let down from his previous efforts. Sorry Jack, still
a big fan.:straightface:

The Necroscope series is an absolute favorite of mine... excellent choice!

I've yet to read the newest one in the series, but I've read all the rest... fuckin fun stuff.

Lumley has definately one of the most unique takes on the vampire... and his Wamphyri are absolute evil bad-asses.

[Misfit]

just finished battle royale vol 9......9/10
now on to battle royale vol 10

[Misfit]

just finished vol 10....9/10 on to vol 11 now:bigthumbup:

[Suffering Bastard]

found a cheap lot of of Goosebumps on ebay awhile back and started readin afew today.

Say Cheese and Die
Welcome to Camp Nightmare

[Misfit]

:D i had those when i was a kid

[Suffering Bastard]

:D i had those when i was a kid

Theres just something about em, I wanna collect all of the original series with the original covers.

[Grendel]

Black Flies by Shannon Burke.

Pretty interesting--and short--read about a rookie paramedic working in Harlem. Author was a paramedic, himself, so there's plenty of on-the-job squishy details for those of you into that sort of thing...

[K.I.N.G]

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Book 2: The Prodigal Son

Great read, next in line is Stephen Kings The Gunslinger.

[Chief Falling Rock]

I just finished Sandstorm by James Rollins. I was in the mood for something with an Idiana Jones feel to it. This was basically a military version, so it worked for me. Their looking for a fabled city called Ubar. And theres a lot dealing with Anti-Matter. Its the first novel in Rollins' Sigma Force series. Theres a lot of action, seemed sorta Michael Bayish at times. I'm lookin forward to reading the next in the series.

Right now I'm reading EVENT by David Lynn Goleman. I picked it up because I bought the second in the series LEGEND not knowing it was a sequal, so I figured I'd read Event first. Its about this guy named Jack Collins who gets brought into the Event group. He doesn't know what to expect but doesn't even consider what it ends up being. Its sort of reminded me of Hellboy in the way its a secret orginization that deals with myths that could be true and could cause history altering "events". They have a lot of artifacts, one being Noahs Ark. In this one theres 2 aliens spacecrafts that have crashed on earth. And theres a lot to do with Area 51.

I dunno why they crashed yet, but theres a little green man in one of them and a monster gets unleashed on accident. It burrows under the ground and eats people like in tremors which is one of my favorite monster movies so thats a plus. Its pretty good so far. The second in in the series LEGEND has something to do with El Dorado, the fabled city of gold.

[Revenant]

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Book 2: The Prodigal Son

Great read, next in line is Stephen Kings The Gunslinger.

Dean Koontz is a prick face for not finishing the trilogy...


Just finished Brian Keene's Ghost Walk...least favorite of all the books of his I've read.

[Misfit]

my copy of ghost walk is not here yet..i preordered it....you know its the sequel to dark hallow right?

[woodenheart]

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

[K.I.N.G]

Dean Koontz is a prick face for not finishing the trilogy...

Next book apparently coming out next year... hopefully.

[Revenant]

my copy of ghost walk is not here yet..i preordered it....you know its the sequel to dark hallow right?

yea and dark hollow was pretty good. It's kind of a sequel but it feels a bit more like an addon, doesn't feel as well developed as his other books. It does tie up some interesting ends and you find out how all his books are connected.. but the actual main story itelf is lacking..still worth a read if you're like me and really like most of his work.

Next book apparently coming out next year... hopefully.

at this point it almost seems silly, i read those when i was 15 or 16 i think, i don't really remember what was going on. If it ever does come out I'll still buy it, if i remember the 2nd book had pretty interesting ending.

[Misfit]

yea and dark hollow was pretty good. It's kind of a sequel but it feels a bit more like an addon, doesn't feel as well developed as his other books. It does tie up some interesting ends and you find out how all his books are connected.. but the actual main story itelf is lacking..still worth a read if you're like me and really like most of his work..

well so far i read:
the rising
city of the dead
dead sea
terminal
ghoul

and i got left to read on my shelf:
kill whitey
the rising selected scenes from the end of the world
the conqueror worms
dark hallow
fear of gravity
the new fear
ghost walk
clickers 2

i love his work so far, although people dont like his endings i thought city of the dead, dead sea, ghoul and terminal had pefect endings (city of the dead having one of the best endings i ever read..)

i have pretty much all his work besides a few short story collections, which i dont really care if i get them all. also suppose to be a book released by him called jacks magic beans but i cant seem to find it and it was removed from his website:shrugs:

[Revenant]

well so far i read:
the rising
city of the dead
dead sea
terminal
ghoul

and i got left to read on my shelf:
kill whitey
the rising selected scenes from the end of the world
the conqueror worms
dark hallow
fear of gravity
the new fear
ghost walk
clickers 2

i love his work so far, although people dont like his endings i thought city of the dead, dead sea, ghoul and terminal had pefect endings (city of the dead having one of the best endings i ever read..)

i have pretty much all his work besides a few short story collections, which i dont really care if i get them all. also suppose to be a book released by him called jacks magic beans but i cant seem to find it and it was removed from his website:shrugs:

for me it's all the books you read plus ghost walk and dark hollow, i'll have to track down some of his others now until his next story..but yea, i actually thought city of the dead had one of the best endings to a book i've ever read, and his other endings are usually very good as well. his endings are always very strong in my opinion. I always thought the ending to Ghoul was particularly good as well. only book i didn't find too great was ghost walk as i said before, but since i've read a decent amount of his other books it does get a bit more support from that..if i had only read say, terminal, it wouldn't have been quite as interesting.

[Misfit]

just finiahed battle royale vol 11...9/10

now on to vol 12

[Misfit]

just finished battle roylae vol 12...9/10

now on to vol 13

[Misfit]

just finished vol 13 ....9/10

on to battle royale vol 14

[Terrorsick]

The Lucifer Principle:A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History by Howard Bloom
excellent read and take on history and mankind

Necroscope II:Vamphyrie by Brian Lumley
starting to really dig this series

Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
I liked it-different

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[Luris Blear]

The Brian Lumley books are a series I wish that I could invest more time into. The first two books were great, and the descriptions for the rest of the series looks amazing.

[WarBeast]

The Brian Lumley books are a series I wish that I could invest more time into. The first two books were great, and the descriptions for the rest of the series looks amazing.

The Necroscope series is a damn fine ride... well worth the time.

[Terrorsick]

The Necroscope series is a damn fine ride... well worth the time.

Yea, Necroscope is amazing so far. Im ordering #3;The Source today.
Has anybody read his Titus Crow books?


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[Misfit]

just finished battle royale vol 14...9/10

now starting the 15th and final volume of battle royale

[WarBeast]

Yea, Necroscope is amazing so far. Im ordering #3;The Source today.
Has anybody read his Titus Crow books?


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Haven't read the Titus Crow stuff yet... but now that you reminded me that it exists, I'll be putting it on my "to read" list.

[Misfit]

finally finished battle royale vol 15.....9/10

guess i may start reading steve alten's the trench

[Azeryk]

Am also a Brian keene addict right now, I loved City of the Dead's ending, anyone complaining really has no taste in books :p

Onto The Conqueror Worms right now with Ghoul to go, I don't think it's as good as the zombie books but it's still a damn good read.

[Misfit]

havent read worms yet...ghoul is good also check out terminal:bigthumbup:

[Azeryk]

I plan on getting all of them of them eventually, usually I'd stick to zombie books only but as I've loved his zombie ones I've ventured onto the monster ones.

Also got Stephen Kings "The Mist", Alien v Predator : Prey book and Karen Chances "Touch The Dark" to read.

[JonnieBoi]

I just finished The Touch of Twilight: The Third Sign of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson. It's a mixture of Buffy and Alias with astrology and it's own mythos mixed in. She's a wonderful author and it's a fabulous story. The first two are call The Scent of Shadows and the Taste of Night. Sadly, instead of continuing with the whole five senses as titles for the books, the fourth book is going to be called City of Souls.

[cg_2004]

Will soon be done with Stephen King's Cell. The book was okay but I read a lot of better ones from him.

[Chief Falling Rock]

just finished EVENT by David Lynn Golemon. I'm reading the second one Legend now. This is gonna be a cool series. Its about a military group that deals with myths, legends and sometimes other wordly things (first book was about aliens) that could make a big impact on the world.

[Chief Falling Rock]

just finished LEGEND which is the second book in the Event series. Was about them finding El Dorado. It was pretty good although I would have liked it to deal more with the monsters in El Dorado. Most of the book was military action and them preparing a rescue mission. But all in all a very good book I finished pretty quickly.

[Crazy "Tbagz" Ralph]

TURN ON, TURN IN, DROP OUT
:D
awesome

[Aurone]

The City of Ember. Damn fun.

7/10

Now I'm starting it's sequel, People of the Sparks.

[Chief Falling Rock]

I just finished Homeland which is the first book in the Dark Elf Trilogy about Drizzt Do'Urden, he's a famous fantasy character. VERY GREAT book. Dealt a lot with racism and prejudice and feeling hopeless and stuck and all that (his race is evil but he doesn't want to be) it was a very very good book. Can't wait to start the second one EXILE

[myersgirl13]

The Woods are Dark by Laymon...once again FUCKING AWESOME! i just wish it was longer:(

[choptop2]

Currently reading The Battle of Brazil. Not about the country, but Terry Gilliam's film.

Interesting read about the studio system, but it's pretty one sided.

[Misfit]

still readin steve altens the trench, with the new xbox 360 and work readin has gone really slow

[Grendel]

Freakonomics - Steven Levitt w/ Stephen Dubner

Quite a bit late on this one, and kind of disappointed. No real depth to anything and it wouldn't have gotten any notice if Levitt hadn't re-hashed his abortion/crime rate correlation from a paper he wrote years before.

Def. struck me as the sort of book that people like to tell other people that they're reading.

[BooBerry]

The City of Ember. Damn fun.

7/10

Now I'm starting it's sequel, People of the Sparks.

I need to read that series before the movie comes out. I've heard good things from the majority of friends who have read them.

[darkoverlord]

still reading In Too Deep by R.L. Stine even though i am behind reading it.

[smokey]

Read Odd Hours by Dean Koontz while on holiday. It was a decent book. Not my favourite of the series though.

[K.I.N.G]

BR Volume 2 :smokin2:

[Misfit]

:smokin2: bout time

[K.I.N.G]

yep :smokin2:

[K.I.N.G]

The Dark Tower, gonna read the Bachman Books now..

[GrimBeornTheOld]

Hmm...not really books, but two H.P. Lovecraft stories: "The Beast in the Cave" and "The Rats in the Walls."

[smokey]

The Woods are Dark by Laymon...once again FUCKING AWESOME! i just wish it was longer:(

Loved that book to. Mr Laymon sure liked to shock.

Just finished reading Revelation by Bentley Little. Quite a good book. Going to read the Dead Sea by Brian Keene.

[Chief Falling Rock]

Loved that book to. Mr Laymon sure liked to shock.

Just finished reading Revelation by Bentley Little. Quite a good book. Going to read the Dead Sea by Brian Keene.

tell me if Dead Sea ends as terribly as City of the Dead

[Godfatha]

Finally got around to finishing jPod, I am America, and So Can You, and Confessions of an Economic Hitman all this week.

[K.I.N.G]

The first story in the Bachman books, which is RAGE! It was greatness.. I can't give books a rating, so i'll give it 2 thumbs up :thumbup::thumbup:

[allworkandnoplay]

I just also read Sandstorm, I totally agree it was definently a good read. I just finished Hack/Slash Suicide Girls and I couldnt even think of putting it down. It's so action packed and intense it never leaves you bored. Check it out!

[Aurone]

I'm nearly done with Wizard and Glass, Book 4 of Stephen Kigns Dark Tower Series. There where times I didn't want to put it down...and there whre times I didn't want to pick it up, I was that into the story. All in all, I'm loving this series.

[Misfit]

tell me if Dead Sea ends as terribly as City of the Dead

same "type" of ending chief:greetings:

[Misfit]

just finished steve altens the trench.....9/10, will get around to reading the 3rd book eventually dont really like reading sequels back to back.

starting to read j.f gonzalez's clickers

[cabal]

Just finished "Tunnel in the Sky" by Robert A. Heinlein. Damn fine book, makes me wish I hadn't waited so long to read any of his novels.

[GrimBeornTheOld]

"A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine L'Engle. I know it's for children but I found it to be a nice little escape.

[ipodgrlxx]

Just finished reading "Untamed" from the house of night series. now i have to wait til march for the next book called Hunted...

[redmoon]

this may sound weird to people but i just finished reading the atlas of mysterious places, its about unexplained mysteries of the world like ancient cities and stuff like that

[Dr. Awesome]

Just finished Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs. Great book one of my favorite writers.

Now time to start the Dark Tower series with Gunslinger.

All you guys who read Dean Koontz. Have you ever heard of a book called Dark Symphony and is it any good? It's OOP but the synopsis sounds awesome and I've found it on amazon and abes from time to time.

[SpookyJ]

Grave Intent-Deborah Leblanc (paperback)

Heart Shaped BOX-Joe Hill (audiobook)

Currently reading Something Dangerious by Patrick Redmond

[deadcellsociety]

Not finished,but halfway through reading Rumours of the Undead.It`s a 30 days of nights novel by Steve Niles and Jeff Mariotte.So far it`s really good

[Dr. Awesome]

Finished Gunslinger a couple of days ago now I'm waiting for the The Drawing of the Three to come in the mail.

[ipodgrlxx]

Just finished reading "All I want for christmas is a Vampire". it's a bad@ss book :thumbup3:

[deadcellsociety]

Not finished,but halfway through reading Rumours of the Undead.It`s a 30 days of nights novel by Steve Niles and Jeff Mariotte.So far it`s really good
I finished the book and i recommend it to all who are fans of the 30 Days of Nights franchise.It was really cool:thumbup:

[Suffering Bastard]

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: Volume One; Second Edition

[myersgirl13]

Just finished The Devil's Labriynth(sp?) by John Saul and now im reading The Academy by Bentley Little, so far so good!!!

[Dr. Loomis]

Dead Until Dark by Harris

its the first book of the SookieStackhouse Series.

So good.

10/10

I liked alot.

[ipodgrlxx]

Just finished reading "Nightwood" last night. a really awesome blind purchase...

[Misfit]

just finished clickers....starting brian keenes conquror worms

[Aurone]

I just finished Book 6 of The Dark Tower Series, Song of Susannah. Pretty good book, but it along with Wolves of Calla (book 5) are both the weakest of the series so far. I'm now on the final Book, Book 7: The Dark Tower. It's weird, I'm feeling both excitment and sorrow that this is ending right now, I felt the same way when I finished the final book of a trilogy not to long ago either. I'm excited to see how it ends, but sad to think that it's going to end. Anyone else feel this way?

[Dr. Awesome]

I just finished The Drawing of the Three.

I've started The Wastelands.

[Aurone]

I just finished The Drawing of the Three.

I've started The Wastelands.


Get ready for whats to come. Book 4 is by far the best, and most emotional.

[Luris Blear]

I was extremely satisfied with the end of Book 7. There seems to have been a notable conflict of opinion over the last few pages.

Most of the rest of Books 5-7 just made me sad. A lot of it felt like Stephen King was writing internet fanfiction for his own books.

[Suffering Bastard]

The Travels of Marco Polo By Marco Polo
Hack/Slash The Series issue 14-18
The Walking Dead issue 51-56
Marvel Zombies 3 issue 1-3

[Ankh1969]

The Ruins for the third time.I am such a bookworm that yes I will reread books I have already read numerous times.

[ShesAKiller]

Just finished The Bleeding Season by Greg F. Gifune....interesting ideas and good concept but a little dragging at times

[Dr. Awesome]

Finished The Wastelands about a week ago and I'm just now starting Wizard and Glass.

The Wastelands is my favorite of the Dark Tower series next to The Gunslinger.

[Suffering Bastard]

Gears of War: Aspho Fields by Karen Traviss

[deadcellsociety]

The Ruins for the third time.I am such a bookworm that yes I will reread books I have already read numerous times.

i`m like that with 'American Psycho'.Love that book.