So, watcha' reading?

[Fester]

Just picked up this little gem:




Its pretty good. And yes, it is in Shakespearean English.

"The Knave Abideth."

[RedKing]

Max Brand "Sawdust & Sixguns"

I just finished Max Brand's Gunman's Gold, a really good western novel! I have a 1960 paperback edition with a cool cover that I got at a lubrary book sale a few years ago. I want to get some more Max Brand westerns if they are as good as this one was!

Just finishing up Strange World and plan to continue the "high strangeness" with John Keel's The Eighth Tower later tonight.  The wind-chill outside right now is around minus 5 and I can hear it howling like a tortured banshee.  Perfect night for some weird reading.  Special thanks to Moonshadow herself - that's you, Karen!

I just started Zachariah Sitchin's Stairway To Heaven about ancient astronauts visiting Earth in the past and starting the ancient civilizations. It is kind of dry so far and seems to be ramling about the search for the Fountain of Youth-going from the Spanish Conquistadors to Alexander the Great and back again. I like the ancient astronaut idea, it is very intriquing, but I don't know if I will make it through this book. Erich Von Daniken's books , so far anyways, are better reading. Sitchin's is like reading a textbook.

[Halloween Jeff]

...the latest "Repairman Jack", followed by "It", starting "Shadowlands", followed by "Full Dark, No Stars", then a couple of ghost story anthologies......


Bizarro Jeff

[Moonshadow]

I just started Zachariah Sitchin's Stairway To Heaven about ancient astronauts visiting Earth in the past and starting the ancient civilizations. It is kind of dry so far and seems to be ramling about the search for the Fountain of Youth-going from the Spanish Conquistadors to Alexander the Great and back again. I like the ancient astronaut idea, it is very intriquing, but I don't know if I will make it through this book. Erich Von Daniken's books , so far anyways, are better reading. Sitchin's is like reading a textbook.

I haven't read any of Sitchin's stuff, for the reasons you cite. I have thumbed through some of his books but felt like I would not be able to read them. Von Daniken on the other hand is constantly emoting and carrying on! It's like these authors are at two different ends of the spectrum. I've only read Chariots of the Gods but it was quite an experience...

Besides John Keel, I also really like Jacques Vallee. Messengers of Deception, Dimensions, and revelations were all interesting books.

[typhooforme]

FORRY by Debbie Painter.  Very good  first biography of Uncle Ack-Ack!

[RICKH]

The Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications by Robert Michael Cotter. 

[Scatter]

I haven't read any of Sitchin's stuff, for the reasons you cite. I have thumbed through some of his books but felt like I would not be able to read them. Von Daniken on the other hand is constantly emoting and carrying on! It's like these authors are at two different ends of the spectrum. I've only read Chariots of the Gods but it was quite an experience...

Besides John Keel, I also really like Jacques Vallee. Messengers of Deception, Dimensions, and revelations were all interesting books.

I remember reading "Chariots Of The Gods" when I was a wee lad. What a complete load if rubbish!! Of course, I loved it back then before it got so thoroughly debunked. Ah the 70s!!

[Elisabeth]

The 1935 edition of THE FILM DAILY YEARBOOK...Vintage!   It's just over 1000 pages, and is as unwieldy as a Volkswagon....but SUCH fun!  Nothing on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, because each book goes from March to March, and BOF wasn't out yet.  It's still yummy, though.

"E" 

[typhooforme]

ELEGY FOR IRIS by John Bayley--Bayley's wife was writer Iris Murdoch, and this is the story of her descent into Alzheimer's.  Sad story, wonderfully written.

[Scatter]

ELEGY FOR IRIS by John Bayley--Bayley's wife was writer Iris Murdoch, and this is the story of her descent into Alzheimer's.  Sad story, wonderfully written.

I just couldn't. No matter how wonderfully written. I just couldn't.

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

Demon Apocolypse by Darren Shan

[Unknown Primate]

Finished The Eighth Tower (1975) by John A. Keel, a couple of weeks ago.  Just finished Hell House (1971) by Richard Matheson - I had read it about 20 years ago and it's still a helluva read (no pun intended).  The movie, The Legend Of Hell House is based on it.  In between, I've been reading George Carlin's Napalm & Silly Putty (2001).  Next is Horror Mansion (1982) by J. N. Williamson.  Read this one 20 years ago, too!  Thought I'd give it another go.

Thanks to Karen ( Moonshadow), for the Keel book...  Now, I'm even weirder than before!

[Elisabeth]

THE RELUCTANT MONARCH by Sara Bradford.
A biography of King George VI

Elisabeth

[Illoman]

Finally caught up with other reading so I can start a newer biography of Soren Kierkegaard, by Joakim Garff. I usually get lost reading SK's works, but find his life extremely fascinating.

[Uncula]

Finally caught up with other reading so I can start a newer biography of Soren Kierkegaard, by Joakim Garff. I usually get lost reading SK's works, but find his life extremely fascinating.

I personally find Kierkegaard's idea's, while I believe, flawed    but very interesting!  I was able to study some of his philosophy during a college Philosophy course.