What are you reading (Non-Lovecraft)

[Ruth - CthulhuChick]

Do NOT read any of the Dune abortions by Brian Herbert.  They are more terrible than Azathoth's taste in music, and completely ruin the grand possibilities left at the end of Chapterhouse Dune.  They go against every theme of Frank Herbert's series.  I could write a novel about how vile they are.

Definitely won't.

This week I've been doing Vorkosigan books again. Just finished Memory and am now on Komarr. So good.

[Unruhe]

Just finished reading "War In Heaven" by Charles Williams.

A mystery story, pitting a Satanist millionaire and an unscrupulous archaeologist against an odd assortment of ordinary and extraordinary people when the Graal [Holy Grail] has been identified as residing, unrecognized, in a small English parish church.

Interesting but slow going.

Starting to read "Isaac Newton" by Gale E. Christianson

[Xylifrost]

I recently finished reading the Gunslinger series by Steven King.  I thought it was an outstanding series with an absolutely lazy ending.  No more detail in case some of you are reading or are planning on reading them.

[davidsverse]

I recently finished reading the Gunslinger series by Steven King.  I thought it was an outstanding series with an absolutely lazy ending.  No more detail in case some of you are reading or are planning on reading them.

Man, I must be the only person who thinks the ending was brilliant.

[thinkbolt]

Last week, I read 'True Grit' by Charles Portis. NOT a book I would have picked up had I not seen the recent Coen Brothers movie. Very entertaining read!

After hearing this week's Podcraft, I'm now reading 'Great God Pan.' It's slow. Stiff 19th-century writing style.

UPDATE: I finished Pan, and I was like, "That's it??" Not terrifying at all, I thought. Style was severely wordy and disassociated from the action of the story. The entirety of the text consists of men sitting in rooms TALKING about what they saw or heard, past-tense. Or reading letters to each other. This is one of my peeves. I seriously dislike this approach to writing.

[Kaelestes]

The entirety of the text consists of men sitting in rooms TALKING about what they saw or heard, past-tense. Or reading letters to each other. This is one of my peeves. I seriously dislike this approach to writing.

Then don't read Bram Stoker's Dracula. You won't like it.

[Genus Unknown]

I didn't care much for The Great God Pan myself. "The White People" blows it out of the water.

[BookGwen]

Sharon Krum's The Thing About Jane Spring. Somehow me reading fluffy girly-girl books scares my husband more than any Lovecraft.

http://www.amazon.com/Thing-about-Jane-Spring/dp/0452287456/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295377529&sr=8-1

Oddly enough I did re-read The Great God Pan yesterday afternoon. Add me to the list of "that's it?". Same thing happened when I plowed through Peter Straub's American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps. Found most of the stories dry or just plain who cares.

[Phil]

Yeah..had a nice paperback copy of "Great God Pan" with a cool cover illustration by A.O. Spare, but the story did leave me kinda non-plused.

Right now reading "Time Travelers Never Die" by Jack McDevitt - really a fun story - with the first opening quote by Charles Lamb of "The Dunwich Horror" fame - not the same quote of course, but still   

[Xylifrost]

I recently finished reading the Gunslinger series by Steven King.  I thought it was an outstanding series with an absolutely lazy ending.  No more detail in case some of you are reading or are planning on reading them.

[Dr.Vincent]

I just finished reading The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Its a really fun series. I have four more to read and rumor has that the last books have some Lovecraftian overtones. Guess I'll find out 

[fishy]

Got August Derleths "The Lurker at the Threshold" in the mail today...i have not read it for some 15 years i think.
I remember it as quite good (when i read it, it was under Lovecrafts name)...should be an interesting re-read.

[Phil]

Just finished "Black Elk Speaks" (as told to John Neihardt back in the 1930's).  It's the "medicine man" Black Elk's life story. 

Really interesting stuff about his visions and how by "re-enacting" those visions connections can be made between this world and the world behind/underlying this one.  Also very moving and depressing for the account of the slaughter at Wounded Knee...  Worth a read.

[Black Chamber]

I recently started reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.  Its a very interesting book following the story of a man who discovers his new house is larger on the inside than it is on the outside (among other things).

It has a recursive style of storytelling; its like a story within a story within a story, and the format & layout is very odd, in a way that needs to be seen to fully understand.  I'm enjoying it a lot so far but it has rather large portions that add nothing to the narrative and instead investigate a topic only tangentially related tot he overall story.  I thought about skipping these parts but end up skimming or reading them anyway.

It's definitely worth a look if you are into odd books, but if you don't want to have to puzzle your way through it; it may not be for you.

[Genus Unknown]

My reading list at the moment includes:

The King James Bible
The Basic Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
The complete Robert E. Howard Conan stories
Chaosium's Hastur Cycle
The Yellow Sign and Others: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers, edited by S.T. Joshi
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith (should be arriving in the mail today)
Lo! and Wild Talents by Charles Fort
Liber AL Vel Legis and The Law is for All by Aleister Crowley and his imaginary friends
The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and some shrink
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Bertrand Russell's Sceptical Essays

And I keep buying books.