Stephen King's Gerald's Game. First time. Wanted to read it before the movie's released.

Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. Never read any of Heinlein's work before, but been interested for a while. It's good so far. People are being controlled by gray blob aliens that attach to their upper backs/shoulders.

I'll probably read Heinlein's Starship Troopers next. Seems like people who are fans of the book hate the movie and vice versa. I love the movie, so not sure how I'll feel if I like the book.

I like both, they're very different.

After Midnight by Richard Laymon. Our narrator/hero is turning out to be more and more fucked up all the time.

Re read The Dark Tower: The Wind Through The Keyhole, it's a story within a story within a story, the wraparound for lack of a better word, is the gunslinger Roland telling his group another story about his youth, that story is set after the story of his youth from Wizard & Glass, a monster is killing people in a small community, so Roland and friend Jamie are sent by Roland's father to find out what is going on. Roland befriends a boy whose father was killed, Roland tells the boy a story that Roland's mother would read to him when he was younger, this is the main part of the book, the story is called The Wind Through The Keyhole.

Any ways, the wraparound is set between book IV and V. It's also good we get to hear about Jamie as he is mentined a few times in the early books.

Now I've just started on re reading book V: The Wolves Of The Calla.

I was in town the other day & noticed the comic book shop had a 3 for 2 graphic novel sale, using a friend's upcoming 40th as an excuse to get him a (free) gift n me 2 unearnt comics i now have two Hardback copies of Predator vs Judge Dredd vs Alien. the guy at the counter even asked me if i knew two of em were the same book, i have a naturally stupid countenance, apparently. not started reading it yet, but has some amazing artwork by Henry Flint & Brian Bolland amongst others

Haven't read this one. But I love Alien Vs Predator, oh if only that movie would have adapted from this! And Batman Vs Predator, would love to see a movie, even if animated.

yeah AVP was a bit of a lit down. bit!? lot. Didn't know 'bout Batman vs Predator ta for that will look it up. there's a few Dredd/MegaCity One and Batman crossover comics,one i'd rec is Judgement on Gotham, some lovely painted art by Simon Bisley and Judge Death is involved which automatically makes it awesome in my book. comic. graphuckit...

I only managed to read two books last month - both by Matt Ruff. The first was Lovecraft Country - already heavily touted here and thanks for that. I enjoyed this a lot - the somewhat episodic form dovetailing nicely with my slow pace so I could savor it leisurely. Then I went on to Bad Monkeys, Ruff's thriller where he takes reality around a few bends. Enjoyable, but not as complex or satisfying as Lovecraft Country.

Now I've got a post-apocayptic novel lined up: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker.

Glad you enjoyed Lovecraft Country, definitely one of my favorite reads of that last few years.

I was surprised what a complex mix of Lovecraft and black segregation it was. It would make an awesome film but I'm not sure that anyone could do it justice in less than a mini-series format.

Fuck Whales: Also Families, Poetry, Folksy Wisdom and You - Petty Essays from a Brilliant Mind, by Maddox

What I've read since I've been gone...

Hail To The Chin: Further Confessions Of A B Movie Actor - Bruce Campbell - Not as good as his first, some parts I found boring.

Art Sex Music - Cosey Fanni Tutti - Autobiography, Cosey is a performance artist, musician. She was a member of Throbbing Gristle, one of the pioneering bands of industrial music. Great read!

Depraved 3 - Bryan Smith - Fun read, fun trilogy.

Christmas Eve On Haunted Hill - Bryan Smith - Decent quick read.

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor - Matthew Stover - Fun book.

Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King & Owen King - Enjoyed it.

Re read... Fast Times At Ridgemont High: A True Story - Cameron Crowe - Always funny.

My Best Friend's Exorcism - Grady Hendrix - Really enjoyed this one. Thought it was going to be cheesy, but it wasn't.

Star Wars: The Courtship Of Princess Leia - Dave Wolverton - Another fun SW adventure.

Burnt Offerings - Robert Marasco - Finally read this. The movie sticks pretty close, but, the movie improves the ending.

Paperbacks From Hell - Grady Hendrix - Very interesting history of paperback horror (60's through 80's), broke up in different categories/genres. I like that it focused on the non-mainstream stuff, no Koontz or King etc.

Squirm - Richard Curtis - Novelization of the 70's wormy flick, fun quick read.

The Haunted Forest Tour - James A Moore & Jeff Strand - Loved it. Sorta like a gory B-movie monster movie version of Jurassic Park.

What Mad Universe - Fredric Brown - Editor of scifi pulp mag finds himself in a parallel earth. Liked it.

Re read... Usher's Passing - Robert McCammon - Fun epic family Southern gothic.

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero - Scooby Doo meets HP Lovecraft set in Oregon. Enjoyed it.

Dimension of Miracles - Robert Sheckley - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy a decade before Douglas Adams came along. Funny book.

December Park - Ronald Malfi - Coming of age murder mystery set in the 90's. Really enjoyed it.

Myth-Ing Persons - Robert Asprin (Book 5 in the MythAdventures series) - Fun, funny, silly quick read.

Re read... Imajica - Clive Barker - Long, sprawling read. Great characters and settings.

Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost - Troy Denning - Brings the prequels and the post-SW world together. Leia learns about her pre-Darth Vader father.

Re read... Cujo - Stephen King - Hadn't read this in decades, definitely a darker ending than the movie.

Now reading... The Nebulon Horror - Hugh B Cave - Over half way through, I'm a sucker for evil kid books/movies. A small group of children are acting strange...

I'm in the middle of Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon by Michael P. Ghiglieri and Thomas M. Myers. As the title indicates, it's about all the people who've died in the Grand Canyon, organized by cause of death. Falling off the rim of the canyon, drowning in the river, animal attacks, even murder.

It's very thorough, almost too thorough sometimes with chapters taking two or three hours to finish (bought this digitally, so not sure of the page count). If you're a morbid fuck like me and enjoy reading about people dying, this book will keep you busy for a while.

Now reading Rohan O'Grady's Let's Kill Uncle, the basis for the William Castle flick, though I think the movie kidified it more, I like how on the front of the book's cover it describes the two kids as charming, so far just a few pages in one of the kids calls a lady a stupid bitch, they've spray painted a bull, broken windows...

Re read Stephen King's The Long Walk and The Body

Now reading the Lou Costello bio Lou's On First

love The Long Walk

Easly in my Top 5 of King's work.

Re reading Thomas Tryon's The Other.

Not a book but I did stumble upon this story on Youtube and can't stop reading...