Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan.

Stephen King's IT in anticipation of the movie due out in September. This is my second read of it and I'm enjoying much more this time around.

I just got IT and am about to start reading IT for the first time. I'm pretty sure IT will be the longest book I've ever read.

There's moments in there that may try your patience but plug away as the good bits are certainly worth it

That is one of my favorite King novels, have read it several times.

Stephen King's Doctor Sleep.

Another good King book. Great followup to The Shining.

Definitely. I'm loving it so far.

King's son Joe Hill references the villains from Dr Sleep in his own book NOS4A2.

I haven't read any of his son's books. Is he good?

He's excellent. Besides that one, Horns is great (the movie was decent but they changed a lot), Heart Shaped Box is really good, and his newest book The Fireman is his opus, very entertaining read and you don't realize it's as long as it is. I still haven't read his collection of short stories.

I'll order some of his books. Thanks!

Second rec for Joe Hill's books - my favorite so far is NOS4A2 but they are all good. He's definitely got his dad's chops.

One of the better of King's later books.

Agreed. Makes up for whatever the hell Dreamcatcher was supposed to be.

I am ashamed to say that I'm currently reading... nothing. Except work-related junk that I have to read otherwise I won't get paid.

That book Beatnik rec'd you sounds fantastic though! I'm looking it up... love resources for obscure films, esp., when in book format.

I've got a list going of the films I haven't seen. It can get repetive as far as information repeated during movie descriptions, but understandable.

But yeah, even after scouring IMDB I still managed to miss movies listed here, and some of the movies described were unreleased, darn. Also interesting how many filmmakers did illegal things to fund their films.

I just checked and that read is ~$35 used on amazon... local library here I come! (now where is that beatnik-dude)...

I should've mentioned I got mine for the Kindle, it was only about $11. Normally I don't like paying that much for a digital book, but I really wanted to read it. And I think it was well worth the splurge.

Lemmy's autobiography White Line Fever. Quite entertaining, but Lemmy is just almost too much of a regular, normal guy for this to be anything too spectacular.

The Headache Factory by Jim Goad. Details the author's personal dealings with a variety of psychotic internet stalkers. Amusing, if rather self-indulgent. Not a patch on anything Goad wrote in the the 90s, but still plenty of savage witticisms. Like this inarguable fact - "The best thing about the internet is that it allows everyone to express his, her or its opinion. That's also the worst thing about it."

Also nearing the end of Garth Ennis' The Boys. A wonderfully immoral and depraved takedown of superhero comics, as well as a brutal critique of celebrity culture. Definitely one of the most enjoyable comics I've ever read.