So, watcha' reading?

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

3 Complete Novels in one,"The Lost years of Merlin"/"The Seven Songs of Merlin"/"The Fires of Merlin" by T.A. Barron
They begin when he is just a young child, and tell how he became known as Merlin.
It's a great book, if you like Wizards/Fantasy type of books.

[coughcool]

I'm just about done reading David Wellington's "99 Coffins" This the second book of his I have read and I think he is great.

[Scatter]

Checking in............just finished "Silent Films And The Triumph of Movie Culture", and "The History Of Christianity Through The Dawn Of The Reformation".

[coughcool]

"99 Coffins" is finished and now I'm on the third book "Vampire Zero" by David Wellington.

[BaronLatos35]

Started re-reading 'Salem's Lot. Chilling...and I'm still in the beginning.

I think its knowing what's ahead that is getting me or that this book/movie scared the bejesus outta me when I was a kid.

Also reading The Complete Dracula from Dynamite Entertainment. Highly recommended comic adaptation.

[ChattyLMS]

Still working on Einstein.  I'm not getting much reading time in.  I am getting more piano time in however.  Does reading music count?  I'm working on Cole Porter's True Love.

<Waltz time> "I give to you and you give to me true love, true love"

[Bogey]

The chapter on Bach was worth alone the price of the book.

[Paul L]

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir A. Conan Doyle. I've forgotten how good this was.

[Bogey]

Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters--men who perhaps weren't glorified in legend or song, but who were rightfully notorious in their day.

and


Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western frontier—elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.

[Paul L]

Finished Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle, started Dracula by Bram Stoker. These are two of several novels I enjoy rereading every few years.

[coughcool]

I'm almost done with Vampire Zero. Only problem is I tried reading it while on pain meds. So I need to reread 2 or 3 chapters.   

[Wicked Lester]

Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters--men who perhaps weren't glorified in legend or song, but who were rightfully notorious in their day.

and


Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western frontier—elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.

I'm a monster fan but am also big on westerns with Doc Holliday being one of my TOP characters of that era. So these sound like eventual must haves.

[Elisabeth]

HOLLYWOOD'S MADDEST DOCTORS, by Gregory W. Mank.  A great triple biography of Atwill, Clive and Zucco. WHO FRAMED BORIS KARLOFF, by Dwight Kemper.  This is a pleasant homage to the SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, and a fun murder mystery solved by Mssrs. Lugosi, Karloff and Rathbone!  Sara Jane Karloff wrote the forward, and obviously enjoyed the result.  GODS & MONSTERS by James Curtis...required reading for anyone who loves James Whale...and for a relish, the novelisation of JOURNEY'S END, by R.C. Sherriff.

I love books about PEOPLE, and especially about how authors make their characters live...

Elisabeth

[BaronLatos35]

Bram Stoker's Dracula

I haven't read this in decades so it's almost new to me again.

[Bogey]

I'm a monster fan but am also big on westerns with Doc Holliday being one of my TOP characters of that era. So these sound like eventual must haves.

'Evening, Lester.  The above is Vol. II.  I have not read Vol. I, but for this book he spends his intro discussing how the gunfighters here in his book are rarely found in any other books, including some of the better western overviews that have been written.  Pretty cool stuff at this end seeing his first subject, Jim Moon hung out here in the Denver area.   Let me know what books you have enjoyed about Doc Holiday.