What are you reading?

[Mofo Rising]

High time for another reading thread.

I'm reading AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, the second book in the Arkham House collected editions of H.P. Lovecraft.

I'm also reading MAN OF TWO WORLDS: MY LIFE IN SCIENCE FICTION AND COMICS by famed DC Goodwill Ambassador Julius Schwartz.  He was a sci-fi literary agent for years (his clients included H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury), and later became an editor for DC comics.

I've got more lined up, but haven't decided what I'm going to read next.

[Paquita]

I'm reading "The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin"!! its pretty good!! IM NOT GOTH!

Most of my reading time gets taken up by the Weekly World News though.



Love,
Colleen

[Brian Ringler]

I'm reading this message board...do that count?

[Pete B6K]

I have this bad habit of starting new books before I finish the last one. So I'm currently reading, all at various stages:

'Stupid White Men' and 'TV Nation' by Michael Moore
'All You Need to Know About the Music Business' by Donald Passman
Che Guevara's 'Bolivian Diaries' and 'Motorcycle Diaries'
'How To Make It in the Music Business' by Sian pattenden
'Label Launch' by Veronika Kalmar
'Fast Food Nation'
'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
'Cather in the Rye' by JD Salinger
'Dead Famous' by Ben Elton
'You Are Being Lied To' by Russ Kick and the disinformation people.
'The Book of the Sub-Genius' by JR Dobbs
And as far as comics go, I'm pretty new to them and own a few issues of 'Lenore' (hysterical twisted genius) and 'Milk and Cheese'.

So there's subversion, conspiracy theories, religious cult spoof and comedy based around a dead girl.  I'll check myself in voluntarily.

This week I'm mostly reading 'Stupid White Men' and the 3 Music Business books.
The last book I finished was about 6 months ago finishing 'If Chins Could Kill'. I'm sure that book dosent need any explanation here.

Pete

[ahab]

i just finished From a Buick 8 and Bruce Campbell's auto-biography. Both great books and i recommend them to all horror fans.






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[Vermin Boy]

"A Year At the Movies" by Kevin Murphy (excellent book by the voice of Tom Servo, and it's even poignant at times!)

"archy and mehitabel" by Don Marquis (Collection of free-form poems from the point of view of a free-form poet reincarnated as a cockroach; cool, offbeat satire from the 20s)

Also, I've been reading the Book of the Subgenius and Roger Corman's autobiography on and off for the past couple of years. Next up, I'd like to read some of the great hipster novels (On the Road, Naked Lunch, Fear & Loathing, etc.), Fight Club, and Armageddon: The Musical (a bizarre-looking book I found used a while ago and still haven't read).

[Paquita]

Wait! i think i need an explanation! Is "If Chins Could Kill" about getting fat?! Cos thats what I think it is! Butt I dunno I'm probably wrong!


Love,
Colleen

[Deena]

I am currently reading (very sparingly I might add) Desolation Angels by Kerouac.  Vermin Boy, on the road is prolly the best book of his to start with but angels is the best thus far (haven't read all his work or finished this one yet).  As of next week I'll prolly be reading some boring social work texts required for my classes.  They have a funny way of naming something that you do in everyday life and pointing out the very obvious (ie respect the families you are working with--no s**t, as a social worker I have to respect ppl?!)  Can't wait to graduate.

Deena

[Vermin Boy]

Yeah, of the books I listed, I'll probably read that one next, as I'm pretty sure there's one floating around my house. If you haven't heard it, I recommend Rhino's Beat Generation 3-disc set. Great tracks by Kerouac, Ginsburg, Burroughs, etc., plus some cool miscellaneous stuff, like a 50s news piece on Greenwich Village and the Christopher Colombus scene from High School Confidential.

[Evan3]

I am reading A Tale of Two Cities (yes, or fun!)

However I made my girlfriend read Carrie and  the Dead Zone. Next up, I gave her On the Beach, Cujo, The Old Man and the Sea and Rosemary's Baby

[Brother Ragnarok]

I just finished an issue of Doctor Who Magazine, and am about to embark on the Silmarillion.  Lookin' forward to it.

Brother R

[Pete B6K]

Colleen, 'If Chins Could Kill - Confessions of a B-Movie Actor' (to give it its full title) is the autobiography of Bruce Campbell , star of the Evil Dead trilogy and various other things.  I think even non-Ccampbell/evil dead fans should really enjoy the book.

Pete

[Tyler]

I'm reading "A Year At the Movies" by Kevin Murphy and "The Gore" by Joseph Citro.  Suprisingly, Citro writes excellently for being such an unknown author.

[Neville]

I am reading a spanish novel called "Aventis", by Juan Marse. It goes about the early years after the civil war. A group of pre-teen boys spend their time trying to survive and inventing stories (they call them "aventis") in which they include their own versions of real-life rumours and situations. It is quite good, but incredibly difficult to follow. Characters and POV are mixed, and narration is stream-of-conciousness-like. I don't know if I'll finish it.

[Conrad]

Aha, Dickens - surprisingly enjoyable, I have found!

My reading list currently includes:  

1) The Day of the Triffids,
2)  Barbarians at the Gate,
3)  The Sands of Valour
4)  Just Tell Me When to Cry
5)  The English Civil Wars
6)  Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships 1914
7)  Beyond the Front Line
8)  various early copies of 2000AD
9)  Give War A Chance