Reading anything?

[alandhopewell]

Great follow-up to Headhunter. Have you read many other Slade books?

     GHOUL, HEADHUNTER, and another whose title escapes me.
Have you read the Sonja Blue series by Nancy A. Collins?

[AndyC]

Ghoul and Headhunter are certainly at the top of my list, and either makes a great start to the series, being written as stand-alone stories before deClercq and Chandler come together in Special X.

My introduction to Slade was Swastika, which was about ten books into the series, but he recaps so much in each book that you get the gist of the backstory. Swastika is a really wild book, combining Nazi wunderwaffen, the Roswell conspiracy and the Robert Picton pig farm murders, among other things.

If you want to read the background of the stories, and even discuss them with Slade himself, check out http://specialx.net

Haven't read any Nancy A. Collins books. Are they similar to Slade? Having read everything of his so far, I've been searching for something similar to scratch that itch. Not having much luck finding the same mix of police procedures, history, thriller, horror and far-out craziness.

[alandhopewell]

Ghoul and Headhunter are certainly at the top of my list, and either makes a great start to the series, being written as stand-alone stories before deClercq and Chandler come together in Special X.

My introduction to Slade was Swastika, which was about ten books into the series, but he recaps so much in each book that you get the gist of the backstory. Swastika is a really wild book, combining Nazi wunderwaffen, the Roswell conspiracy and the Robert Picton pig farm murders, among other things.

If you want to read the background of the stories, and even discuss them with Slade himself, check out http://specialx.net

Haven't read any Nancy A. Collins books. Are they similar to Slade? Having read everything of his so far, I've been searching for something similar to scratch that itch. Not having much luck finding the same mix of police procedures, history, thriller, horror and far-out craziness.

     SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK, and the other four books in the series, deal with Sonja Blue, a young woman who was raped and fed upon by a vampire at the age of fourteen.Rather than dying, she becomes a hybrid, similar to Blade.

     Rex Miller wrote a really intense series about a serial killer named Chaingang, back in the 90's. Of course, there's the Prey series by John Sandford, which are quite good. Joe R. Lansdale has done some great, balls-out murder mysteries, particularly those starring Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.

[Vik]

'Lullaby' by Chuck Palahniuk.

[indianasmith]

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have authored an amazing series of books about an eccentric FBI Agent named Aloysius Pendergast.  THE RELIC was the first (please ignore the TERRIBLE movie made from it), followed by RELIQUARY and STILL LIFE WITH CROWS.  The most recent was entitled COLD VENGEANCE.  Not as edgy and gross as Slade's stuff, but still very fascinating.

[AndyC]

About two thirds of the way through The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe. Always liked the movie, but the book goes so much deeper into the people and events, and makes clearer just what "the right stuff" is. I'm also very much in agreement with Wolfe's interpretation of the space race as a substitute for war between two nuclear superpowers, with the astronauts and cosmonauts as champions in the old tradition of single combat.

I'm looking forward to rewatching the movie. No doubt I'll notice things I hadn't before.

[Rev. Powell]

"The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth" by Brad Prager

Much better than the last two film books I've read. It's actually comprehensible.

[alandhopewell]

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have authored an amazing series of books about an eccentric FBI Agent named Aloysius Pendergast.  THE RELIC was the first (please ignore the TERRIBLE movie made from it), followed by RELIQUARY and STILL LIFE WITH CROWS.  The most recent was entitled COLD VENGEANCE.  Not as edgy and gross as Slade's stuff, but still very fascinating.

     I LOVE Preston and Child!

[God the Worms]

Love in the Time of Dinosaurs by Kirsten Alene

Slaughterhoue 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

[Vik]

'The doors of perception and heaven and hell' by Aldous Huxley.

[Frank81]

Slaughterhoue 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

I feel  like Billy Pilgrim more every day, unstuck  in time, place and culture.

[ChaosTheory]

"The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth" by Brad Prager

Much better than the last two film books I've read. It's actually comprehensible.

I'm not much of a Herzog fan, but that photo is BADASS. 

Currently reading "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux

[InformationGeek]

Been going through some new comic books recently.  I'll go into more details when I finish one of them:


Batgirl Vol. 3: The Lesson by Bryan Q. Miller
Bone: Complete Edition by Jeff Smith
Gotham Central Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty by Greg Rucka & Ed Brubaker
John Constantine: Hellblazer Vol. 1: Original Sins by Jaime Delano
Resurrection Man Vol. 1 by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Scalped Vol. 2: Casino Boogie by Jason Aaron

[alandhopewell]

[AndyC]

"The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth" by Brad Prager

Much better than the last two film books I've read. It's actually comprehensible.

I'm not much of a Herzog fan, but that photo is BADASS.

The expression seems to say "Yeah, whatever. I've worked with Kinski."