So, watcha' reading?

[Gillman-Fan]

I took a break from R. White Jr.'s mammoth Lincoln biography and read Goat Song by Brad Kessler. Great little book for anyone who wished they could chuck the urban rat race just raise goats for milk/cheese.

[Wicked Lester]

About 100 pages in on this. Pretty primitive artwork and Lois was such B towards Clark. Fun book and highly recommended. Like $11 from Amazon.

[Scatter]

  Great little book for anyone who wished they could chuck the urban rat race just raise goats for milk/cheese.

I'm sure all 3 of them will love it. 

[RICKH]

The Secret Life of Harry Houdini: America's First Superhero by Kalush and Sloman and
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda Davis

Both are excellent.

[Scatter]

The Secret Life of Harry Houdini: America's First Superhero by Kalush and Sloman and
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda Davis

Both are excellent.

I finished the Houdini book a few months ago.........a great read!

[Bogey]

Just started the above.  I was going to read Smith's Lensmen series, but could not find the first book in the used shops or the library.  Thought I wouldgive this series a try.  I guess it was originally serialized starting in 1928 in Amazing Stories.



More on its history here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylark_(series)

[Street Worm]

Reading my old, falling apart copy ,
waiting for the new one to get here-



Radix, A.A. Attanasio's first novel came out in July, 1981
& blew my mind page after page-
Since then it's always held a spot on my
top ten Sci-Fi Books list-

Finally reprinted by Phoenix Pick & out this month-

Amazon reviews here

[Wicked Lester]

Loves me pulps. Cross between weird detective and a bit of weird menace. Pretty cool stuff.

[Halloween Jeff]

Under the Dome....

[Bogey]

Here is a partial synopsis:

A review by Victoria Strauss

In the far future universe of Richard K. Morgan's debut novel Altered Carbon, human consciousness has been digitized. Every human being is implanted at birth with a cortical stack, which records every second, every thought, every experience. If you have the money (or purchase the right insurance policy), you can be brought back to life after you die by the simple expedient of implanting your stack into a new body, a process known as sleeving. The penal system no longer stores live criminals, but only their digital selves. Travelers beam their minds across space via needlecast, and wake up in new sleeves. Wars are fought by troops whose minds are downloaded into bodies on-site -- troops like the Envoy Corps, the enforcement arm of the despotic UN Protectorate, which rules Earth and its colony worlds with an iron fist.

Takeshi Kovacs is a former Envoy. Envoys' specialized training and neurochemical enhancements, designed to make them perfect long-distance warriors and flawless investigators, also place them just this side of psychopathic. Many Envoys, when discharged from the Corps, turn to crime, and Kovacs is no exception. Sentenced on his home planet to more than a century of storage for his part in a brutal heist, Kovacs wakes to find himself in Bay City, Earth, housed in an unfamiliar sleeve. He's been retrieved and hired by industrialist Laurens Bancroft, whose fabulous wealth allows him, among other things, to maintain a clone facility that renders him and his family effectively immortal. Kovacs' assignment: to investigate Bancroft's death in a previous body, which the police have ruled a suicide but which Bancroft is certain was attempted murder.

Sounds kind of Blade Runner-ish, so I am in!

[Wicked Lester]

Diggin more precode horror.

[Moonshadow]

Just started the above.  I was going to read Smith's Lensmen series, but could not find the first book in the used shops or the library.  Thought I wouldgive this series a try.  I guess it was originally serialized starting in 1928 in Amazing Stories.

Bogey, I'd be curious to know what you thought of the Lensmen series. I tried to read it back when I was a teenager, but was annoyed that women lacked the necessary brainpower to work a lens! I might tolerate it better nowadays.    Since it was the basis for the modern Green Lantern comics I'd like to know more about it.

[Moonshadow]

Currently reading A Thing of Unspeakable Horror: The History of Hammer Films, by Sinclair McKay. This was another pick-up from Half-Price Books and it's been a pretty informative and entertaining read. Christopher Lee's refusal to say his lines as Dracula because they were "rubbish" is hilarious.

[Bogey]

Bogey, I'd be curious to know what you thought of the Lensmen series. I tried to read it back when I was a teenager, but was annoyed that women lacked the necessary brainpower to work a lens! I might tolerate it better nowadays.    Since it was the basis for the modern Green Lantern comics I'd like to know more about it.

Great post.  Here the women suffer the same fate and it definitely hurts the read greatly and is unreadable at parts.  I passed on the Lensmen for now as I needed a break from the pulp, especially this one.  Would be happy to send this book out to you if you cannot track it down.

If you want to preview The Lensmen, go here for the first book:

http://manybooks.net/titles/smithee3270632706-8.html

[Street Worm]

Just picked up Zero History -new book by William Gibson~