Reading anything?

[Fausto]

Finally got into reading The Demon Redcoat. I think I'll go outside to read today, its too nice to stay indoors.

[Psycho Circus]

I'm currently digging into Michael Slade's Ghoul, which was sent to me by AndyC! So far, so good... 

[AndyC]

I'm currently digging into Michael Slade's Ghoul, which was sent to me by AndyC! So far, so good... 

Great. It didn't take long to get there.

I've finished Primal Scream and jumped out of order for the newest, Red Snow. I'm already halfway through, and the story is full of surprises. Slade brings back characters from a few earlier books, kills off a couple of regulars, and has a criminal mastermind attack the Olympics at Whistler, BC. with both large-scale terrorism and more intimate homicide.

[The Burgomaster]

Just started UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by Harriett Beecher Stowe

[Sleepyskull]

I have 76 pages left in The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

I'm really enjoying it so far!     

[indianasmith]

Just finished ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER.  A fascinating look into a little-known aspect of the life of our 16th President, based on his recently discovered journals.  By the editor of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES.  It is an amazing tale of heroism, and the REAL meaning behind America's Civil War!  Best line so far, from Lincoln's journal:

"I cannot escape the conclusion that as long as this nation is cursed with slavery, it will likewise be cursed with vampires."

[Ozzymandias]

Ozzymandias speaks: I just finished Dangerously Funny. It is about the Smothers Brothers and their late 60's TV show. It starts with their rough childhood and go thorugh to present day. However, much of the focus is on the problems with network over their TV show. It clears up many misconceptions about the show and the ultimate termination of the show.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

[AndyC]

Finished Red Snow in just a few days. Very easy read. I must say that the title is very apt. It's as if Slade decided by the 13th Special X book to cull some of the supporting characters he's accumulated since the early 80s. I mean, he's killed off one or two before, but he totally cleans house in this book. I can imagine it must get hard to write a taut thriller with an army of minor characters who continue to multiply as their backstories get longer and longer.

This was the third appearance of the criminal mastermind Mephisto, who aside from being an insane genius with lots of ill-gotten money and a penchant for seeking out other maniacs to do his dirty work, is also very concerned about global overpopulation. He'd like to get that number back to a nice, comfortable 700 million people. And after being foiled in two previous books, he has a real hate on for the RCMP.

Now, I can't decide whether to start another Slade book, since I only have two left in the series, or get into Peter Straub's Koko.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es.

The Indiana Jones Omnibus

In the early '80's, as a movie tie-in, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was published as a monthly comic book over a period of three months by Marvel Comics.

Then, some fourteen months later, a demand was seen to publish the further adventures of Indiana Jones as a monthly comic book.

Some of the adventures lasting only one issue. Some two issues. And some three issues.

Then just recently both the comic book version of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the further adventures was repackaged and republished by Dark Horse Comics. Which is how I read 'em.

I don't know how long the series lasted, as I've only read the first dozen issues, but it lasted at least one more issue after the first dozen.

Next time: Rick Geary's "A Treasury of Murders"

[Joe the Destroyer]

I'm still reading The Beast House by Richard Laymon.  Not nearly as good as The Cellar.  It feels like he had a quota to make and decided to do a sequel to The Cellar, but also padded it out with romance.  I'm almost 200 pages into this 334 page book and there has yet to be much of anything scary in it at all.  Just a lot of raunchy sex and powder puff nonsense between characters.  I'm hoping the last 100 pages will make up for it.  I enjoyed The Cellar because it was fresh, well written, and succinctly narrated.  There was a little romance and some screwing now and then, but he at least kept the ball rolling. 

It's one of those books that pretty much isn't good, but I have to finish it.  I'm still reading the next book in the series next, that being The Midnight Tour, and I'm hoping that one will not disappoint like this one has. 

[lester1/2jr]

 http://mises.org/daily/4183 - lord acton on the american revolution




audio version:  http://mises.org/media/4758 (mp3) 27 mins


Basically, once the french threat to the colonies was gone, england was useless to them and The American Revolution was inevitable

[indianasmith]

I read a British history of the Revolution a few years ago - I think it was called A FEW BLOODY NOSES - that adopted that same premise, and also insisted that it was actually the French that won the Revolution, which I feel is stretching things a bit.

[lester1/2jr]

IS- I agree. It's his pro liberty sentiments that got it reproduced on that site and they are very nice

[JaseSF]

I've started reading a compilation of time based short stories in a book named Time After Time edited by Denise Little. So far it's been kind of disappointing.

[BeyondTheGrave]

Love military history and this ones a good one so far.