Leave a comment

Comments 24

dungeoneer March 10 2005, 11:29:11 UTC
Mervyn Peake. His Gormenghast trilogy has some of the best descriptions I've seen.

Reply

lowkeyknight March 10 2005, 11:37:57 UTC
A friend lent it to me recently (cos i had no book to read on the train as i recall) I've put it aside for the moment, mainly because i saw the tv series and hated it.

Reply

dungeoneer March 10 2005, 12:32:29 UTC
The TV series doesn't do the book justice at all. All it really accomplished was the motivation of a bunch of adolescent girls to write Mary Sue fic involving Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Reply


spasmsproject March 10 2005, 12:16:35 UTC
Frederic Brown, Theodore Sturgeon, Donald Westlake and "A Confederacy of Dunces," by John Kennedy Toole.

Reply


John Saul morbidfrog March 10 2005, 13:21:19 UTC
Everytitle by John saul, it is more ghostly than fantasy but thunder and I have many of his books and they are very very good, even though he tend to use similar approach to most books.

I have not read the new titles (he writes a lot)
this are some of my favorites, he you like him then you will have reading materials for many months or weeks...

Punish the sinners
Nathaniel
Suffer the children
Comes the blind fury
Hellfire
all fall down.....

Reply

Re: John Saul lowkeyknight March 10 2005, 13:27:39 UTC
okeydokey, i'll check em out.

Reply


leftoftheedge March 10 2005, 15:45:13 UTC
John Courtenay Grimwood, Haruki Murakami's 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World', Neal Stephenson (especially Snow Crash or Diamond Age if you haven't read 'em yet), I Lucifer (can't remember the name of the author), J G Ballard (if you want odd go for something like Island of the Day Before or his complete collection of short stories), Brave New World...

...that should do you for a few days.

Reply

marylittlegoth March 10 2005, 21:04:41 UTC
I can lend you a John Courtenay Grimwood.

Reply

lowkeyknight March 11 2005, 09:22:17 UTC
Neal Stephenson: I read snow crash and he struck me as a poor man's michael marshall smith

Murakami keeps popping up so i'll have to try him

Reply

leftoftheedge March 11 2005, 09:22:34 UTC
Oh, and 'Slaughtermatic' by Steve Aylett.

Reply


Suggestion anonymous March 10 2005, 19:32:24 UTC

You should try Ann Rice. She's pretty good. I think you would like her.

A

Reply

Re: Suggestion lowkeyknight March 11 2005, 08:35:30 UTC
now I have your IP address ho ho ho.

Vengence will be mine.

Reply

Re: Suggestion lowkeyknight March 11 2005, 10:39:45 UTC
there's always one isn't there.

Reply


Leave a comment

Up