Book Talk discussion

I finished a collection of shorts this weekend called:
American Horror.
My favorite of the collection was called 'Outside' by YOU Kealan! Totally freaky and creepy.
All in all I found it to be a very good collection.

I gotta check that one out.
His PEEKERS gave me nightmares for three days.

Recluse wrote: "I gotta check that one out.
His PEEKERS gave me nightmares for three days."

recluse, I was just on wikipedia and it says there is an 8 minute film of Peekers!!

I know!

I would love to see it.

Charlene, let me know how it is!

Kealan wrote: "Thanks Charlene! I don't recall writing "Outside", but I reread it a while back when I was including it in THEATER MACABRE and it weirded me out.

You can watch PEEKERS here: http://www.youtube.com..."

I didn't realize that an author could be weirded out by his own story!
Recluse, how come you can't watch it?

I watched it. Now I'm all creeped out and shivery.
That was a fantastic little short!

No computer, Charlene.

That sucks, recluse. Totally sucks.

Yes.
My life is a vacuum cleaner...

Kealan, I do it from my Kindle.

Really?
I swear at it. ;)

You must have one of the fancier Kindles, recluse?
I have the keyboard w/3G one and for me to go online is like a pterodactyl pecking it out on a slab of stone. Seriously, that's how long it takes.

Kealan wrote: "Very cool. The wifey does the same. She swears by it."



Awwww, you're married? Just joking.

I have a Kindle 2 with 3G, Charlene.

Writer, photographer, actor, and sex symbol.

We gotta get you on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He's an author, too.

I'm feeling like I missed out when God was passing out talent genes. *sigh*

If it wasn't for us talentless people, talented people couldn't make a living. :P

LOL, good point!

And you never asked the most important question....can he dance?

Beer-
giving white men the gift of dance since...

Doubled over and sweating?

Beer could help you with that, Kealan.
Just ask my Irish husband, : P

Almost finished THE SLAB by Jeff Mariotte.
Also reading MURGUNSTRUMM and Others by Hugh b, Cave.

Next up, either ANCIENT IMAGES by Ramsey Campbell or TWICE AS DARK by Glen Krisch.

I've been reading my box of Product 19 in the morning, too.
Pretty excting stuff!
Riboflavin......who knew?

Good stuff, that Riboflavin. I can't afford Product 19 anymore. :(

I am almost done reading Fevre Dream by George RR Martin. When I finished, I have to choose which one is next: Stephen King's Dome or Robert McCammon's The Five. I am leaning toward McCammon for two reasons: I've missed him all these years since he quit writing horror and a book about rock-n-roll and horror is really hard to resist. Even Stephen King would agree with that!

Gotta tell you Sharon, The Five isn't really horror.
It's awesome, but only has a slight supernatural tinge. Of course the bad guy is rather horrific, but the story isn't really scary. I loved it. There are a list of questions on McCammons site to ask yourself once you've read it. The questions made me think and I like that.
(Enter snarky comment about my sad thinking ability here).

Anyway, I stepped way out of my comfort zone and am reading Lonesome Dove. I like it very much so far.

I've heard great things about Lonesome Dove. My mom used to read those epic novels when I was a kid. About The Five-I also heard it's not really horror but don't take away my fantasy of McCammon being back into horror, please! It's my world and I can do as I please. :P

Read The Five!!!!

And stop picturing McCammon naked.....

Sharon, of course you can continue to fantasize! McCammon can write and that is what it is important.
I would probably be happy to read his grocery list.

Plus, he's almost as hot as Kealan!! *winking*

Well, my self esteem just hung itself from the shower rod.....

Recluse, come on...look at your picture! What do you expect? LOL

OH I thought rec's pic was hot....;)

ROFLMAO!

LOL-good one *shaking head*

With McCammon and Straub back in the game, things can only get better.

If Kealan would write a nice 800 page doorstop, they would be perfect.

Just finished Fevre Dream, so The Five is next! :)

That was such a great book.
A great sense of time and place.

It was the best horror novel I have read in a long time, Kealan. Martin has an incredible talent for writing and can make a can of soup interesting. He uses the Mississippi River as its own character, teeming with life but also just as deadly as the vampires that populate its shores. I definitely recommend it!

I remember when I first read it,being disappointed that it was the only Martin novel I could find.

How often do you reread books, Kealan?

LOVED Ghost Story!!! Loved Fevre Dream too, but I first read it 20 years ago or so.

I reread books constantly. About one book a week. I've reread GHOST STORY about 30 times, FEVRE DREAM about 5.

Kealan, I can't find enough good books to feed my need to read.

I only reread books I've really loved.
I reread both The Stand and IT every couple of years or so. I reread Boy's Life just recently.
Not that anyone asked me, but there it is. : P

Look at it lying there, like a beached flounder....

Got it this morning.
3:05 a.m, EST.

I was also quite taken with the cover.

Spreading the word even as we speak...

Anytime!

I've been looking forward to reading it.

Still suffering from insomnia, rec?

I do like the cover of Kin, very nice!
The GR site is wonky today, wouldn't let me link it up.

I don't so much suffer from it as I am living a nocturnal lifestyle.