So, watcha' reading?

[bigbud]

Lblambert, that's just the kind of recommendation I was looking for! Strangers it is ........thank you much! Buddy

Hey! Strangers wasn't made into a movie was it? For some reason a slasher movie with Liv Tyler comes to mind........couple scared by intruders all through the movie and then stabbed to death without much reason in the end...

[zombiehorror]

Finally putting some effort behind reading/finishing Grande Dame Guignol Cinema: A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother; I'd started reading it last year and then set it down for awhile.

[Halloween Jeff]

several books on airbrushing, then on to a book on the greatest vampire stories by martin Greenburg.

finished reading the latest King novel as well.

[Moonshadow]

finished reading the latest King novel as well.

Hey Jeff, what did you think of the King book? It sounds interesting but the size is sort of putting me off.  I just finished Games of Thrones, which was 800 pages, so I may go for a shorter book first.

[Count_Zirock]

Just finished reading "Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade," and just started "Assassin's Creed: Revelations." And, no, I don't play the videogames. I don't play any videogames, ever. The only reason I own exactly one videogame is that it was a gift.

[Illoman]

Got several books for Christmas, so I'm reading those: Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus, Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day by Day, Night after Night (highly recommended!), The Quotable Chetsterton, and a Dostoevsky short novel The Double.

[Fester]

Got several books for Christmas, so I'm reading those: Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus, Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day by Day, Night after Night (highly recommended!), The Quotable Chetsterton, and a Dostoevsky short novel The Double.

Oh Man!  The whole adventures of  Phineas Freewheelin' Franklin and Fat Freddy?  So Jealous--those are great comix!  Gilbert Shelton is a genius.  Too bad the Freak Brothers movie never got off the ground.


My current reading?  The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (related to the Richard Widmark movie only by title)  and Norse Mythology According to Uncle Einar by JT Sibley.  Thor rides a Harley and Valhalla is a Bar and Grill.

[Scatter]

Finally putting some effort behind reading/finishing Grande Dame Guignol Cinema: A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother; I'd started reading it last year and then set it down for awhile.

WOW!! One of my all-time favorite genres!! I never even considered there would be a history written of such a short-lived cinema niche. If you don't mind, can you give me a brief review?? Is it worth purchasing?

[zombiehorror]

WOW!! One of my all-time favorite genres!! I never even considered there would be a history written of such a short-lived cinema niche. If you don't mind, can you give me a brief review?? Is it worth purchasing?

It's been interesting to me but then there are a lot of films in it that I didn't know about and I am definitely not an expert on this particular genre; Each film is given a short plot synopsis before delving a little deeper into the film and the connections to the other films in the genre.  You can preview quite a few pages for yourself here http://books.google.com/books/about/Grande_Dame_Guignol_cinema.html?id=gPuyHmIcHbwC and see the list of films the book covers.  Depending on what you've read or previously know about the films I would say would depend on your level of enjoyment out of the book....Then again I know (as must of us do) all about the Universal Monsters and I still pick up new books on the subject.

[Scatter]

Thanks ZH! Just watched the Mother of all hag horrors "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" complete with a surprisingly and disappointingly ignorant and vapid commentary track. Seriously, bought the Anniversary Edition JUST for the extras, and they sucked. Rife with error and inane nattering, which displaced any insight, history, or interesting anecdotes which might have been offered on the film. 2 "critics" giggling and gabbing over a film soundtrack does NOT a commentary make.

[RICKH]

I've been reading Rick Lai's The Secret History of Criminal Masterminds and his The Secret History of Heroes.  I really enjoy the Wold-Newton universe created by Philip Jose Farmer. 

[typhooforme]

AT HOME (A Short History of Private Life)  by Bill Bryson, one of the most satisfying and enjoyable writers of travel and historic minutiae.

THE LUCKY SOUTHERN STAR by Julie Adams--excellent autobiography of one of our--and certainly the Creature's--favorite ladies!

AN ANTHROPOLGIST ON MARS by Oliver Sacks--more fascinating cases having to do with neurological disorders.

UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer--some recent and distant history of violence in Fundamental Mormonism.

[Moonshadow]

I've been reading Rick Lai's The Secret History of Criminal Masterminds and his The Secret History of Heroes.  I really enjoy the Wold-Newton universe created by Philip Jose Farmer.

I had no idea anyone was playing around in Farmer's universe! I had PJF's "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" when I was just a tween, then got "Tarzan Alive" and later on read "A Feast Unknown " (I've never recovered), as well as "Lord of the Trees/ The Mad Goblin". I absolutely love the way PJF took so many existing characters and built a universe around them. I'll have to check out these Rick Lai books. Thanks for posting that Rick!

[Zombiology]

fiction:  Robert Jordan- 4th Wheel of Time
nonfiction: just completed the complete book of Hammer Horror
magazine:  Scary Monsters#78

[Bonomo]

My Days With Errol Flynn by Buster Wiles, who was Flynn's stunt double and good friend for a long time