So, watcha' reading?

[avenger]

I still have a couple of the Doc Savage hardcovers and the movie (with Ron Ely) which is not as good as the books but a bit of fun ,nonetheless.

[Daimajin]

Been reading a lot.  Golden Horrors (great great great) and Tom Weaver's I Was a Monster Movie Maker (And why are all of those McFarland titles so damned expensive?!  Superb, addictive, wonderful books, but geez...)

Also reading a collection of frontier stories by Louis L'Amour (volume five, I believe).  I've always liked western movies but it wasn't until I got into the Gunsmoke radio shows a few years ago that I found myself really digging old western stories.  Not long ago I found this odd, obscure and really old book in a used book store that collects actual newspaper accounts of the OK Corral shootout and other gunfights.  Very cool.   

I always keep a few anthologies on my nightstand (Bradbury's complete short story collection, Chandler's Simple Art of Murder and at least one book of Japanese short stories are always at hand) and have recently finished Stephen King's latest collection (OK but certainly no Night Shift). 

I've been thinking of getting my copy of Reel Future out and re-reading it once more.  Who Goes There?, Re-Animator and a ton more, all assembled by FJA -- pretty great stuff.

[tv horror]

Oops I forgot to add my love for Victorian ghost stories I cant get enough of them, what I like most about them is the way they make you believe that they really happened. They would start a line like "I met Dr-------- on the High street and he told me about the house on ----------street, great stuff.

[Illoman]

I still have a couple of the Doc Savage hardcovers and the movie (with Ron Ely) which is not as good as the books but a bit of fun ,nonetheless.

Yeah, that was supposed to be George Pal's swansong as a director I think. He lost all backing and interest from the movie folks who left him hang out to dry.  The movie really wasn't very good, and considering the strength of the character one would think a decent film could be made.
i thought that about the Shadow and Conan, but those films were lousy as well.

Maybe it has something to do with pulp characters...

Mike

[Wicked Lester]

Some Gold Key "Grimm's Ghost Stories" comics...

A book about ghosts, "More Haunted Houses"...

I totally love ghost stories...good ones, cheesy ones, I love 'em all.  Especially in cold weather, I think, with a hot cup of coffee or tea nearby.

I hear ya on that one. Especially with only a reading lamp while the winds howl like a lost soul on the moors. Instead of coffee I'll take a high octane craft beer.

[The Spangler]

neonnoodle writ: "A book about ghosts, "More Haunted Houses"... I totally love ghost stories...good ones, cheesy ones, I love 'em all."
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear NEONDOODLE,
... I have many true, direct experience, Ghost Stories. Mayhap, I'll post them sometime... as a new thread...
EXANIMO EVERNOW,
TIMMY & THE BARON & FRIENDS, GOO-O-OODD-D!, B.G.G.,

Thats a GREAT idea Baron!  I'd like to read about your experiences, as well as others, on a "True Ghost" thread.   I've experienced a few creepy encounters myself, here in old and haunted New England!  The most frightening by far was my personal encounter with the "shadow people".  I still shiver just thinking about it...

[CreepysFan]

neon noodle writ: "A book about ghosts, "More Haunted Houses"... I totally love ghost stories...good ones, cheesy ones, I love 'em all."
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear NEONDOODLE,
... I have many true, direct experience, Ghost Stories. Mayhap, I'll post them sometime... as a new thread...
EXANIMO EVERNOW,
TIMMY & THE BARON & FRIENDS, GOO-O-OODD-D!, B.G.G.,

I collect books on real ghosts and hauntings, and I agree with The Spangler dear Baron, I would love to read your true ghost story experiences in a thread by you. I can't get enough hearing about TRUE GHOSTS, or the LITERARY ones either.

[michblk]

I'm now on to reading Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters

BK

[Scatter]

Just finished the biography of the Beatles, and am reading Stephen King's latest collection of short stories. Just finished reading "I AM LEGEND" about a month ago/ First time I read it, and I have to say that I enjoyed it much more than any of the theatrical attempts. I am suprised at how different all the movie versions were from the source.
Oh, I also received my latest 2 installments in the Complete "PEANUTS' collection for Christmas, and am enjoying them at a leisurely pace...

Snoopy RULZ!!!

[neonnoodle]

I still have to watch the Peanuts holiday videos I got for Christmas...hadn't seen them in ages (and there are extra episodes on the discs that I have never seen...).  I remember having a couple of cool Peanuts paperbacks in the 70's...

I go through ghost books voraciously, there are so many of them...just found a really good hardcover from the mid-1940s called "Ghosts That Still Walk" edited by Marion Lowndes (the book has no relation to the mid-1970s James Flocker cheeseball movie...which is fun also...but I digress).  Anyway, this hardcover has detailed accounts of some famous legends that I read later as abbreviated, pared-down versions...it is one of the neatest things I have come across in my ghost-hunting.

[Halloween Jeff]

Just finished F. Paul Wilson's "By the Sword".

Another "Repairman Jack" novel.

Visit the website:  repairmanjack.com

Bizarro Jeff

[Bogey]

About 150 pages in.  Still enjoying it at this end Mike.  The first two chapters were a bit more difficult to follow than the others so far.  However, after a re-read of them, I was good.

[avenger]

Timeline by Michael Crichton

[Illoman]

About 150 pages in.  Still enjoying it at this end Mike.  The first two chapters were a bit more difficult to follow than the others so far.  However, after a re-read of them, I was good.

I may try it again at some point. I agree with everything I read in it.

I also just finished reading a biography of animator Ub Iwerks, the man who created Mickey Mouse. I also just finished a book on artist Dave Stevens. Currently am still reading the Bible and a book about a man in England with a bus ministry that a friend from the Isle of Wight sent me.

Mike

[typhooforme]

Dipping back into the COMPLETE WORKS OF SAKI, and am in the middle of DO YOU WANT IT GOOD OR TUESDAY? (FROM HAMMER FILMS TO HOLLYWOOD) by Jimmy Sangster.  Also a good ways into CORAL BROWNE's biography by Rose Collis, the full title of which I don't think I should write on a board with a mixed audience!  Vinnie certainly married an interesting lady for his last go-round!