What are you reading?

[Neon Maniac]

Glad I used them, I usually don't.

[Sham]

Finished The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker. Awesome book. Beautiful descriptive writing. Already one of my favorites.

Went ahead and picked up Barker's The Inhuman Condition because I was so impressed.

[Spez]

Finished Desperation by Stephen King. Really surprised by this one. Gets right into it, which I wasn't expecting from a King novel. The ending's a little rushed, but it's a solid book overall.

I'm reading this now too. I'll have to come back to read all the spoiler tags.

Finished this the other day. I thought it was OK, but it lost a ton of steam by the end. It started off strong and then just meandered into a Dean Koontz ending.

Spoiler:

The little boy needs a family and oh look, here's Mary who had a miscarriage and needs someone to love. Togetherness!

[Neon Maniac]

That's a perfect way to describe my thoughts on it too.

[Sham]

Finished Barker's The Inhuman Condition.

Title story was pretty good; Revelations! and Down, Satan! were just okay; The Age of Desire was probably the weirdest, but most interesting.

But the overall best story, hands down, was The Body Politic. Awesome idea that's just begging to be a full-length movie (and no, Idle Hands doesn't count).

[Neon Maniac]

I just finished Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris. Pretty damn funny.

[Alien Redrum]

Sedaris makes me cry.

[The Hitman]

My wife loves his books. I've never read any. I don't know if that's good or bad.

[Neon Maniac]

I'm reading his Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Demin now.

[Alien Redrum]

I loved that one. That's the only one I've read. I'm afraid to read more and be disappointed.

[Neon Maniac]

Read Santaland Diaries. It's short and it's hillarious. It's about the season he was an elf at Macy's in Herald Square. It should be on the server.

[Sham]

Finished Born Standing Up by Steve Martin.

Really good memoir. Funny, enlightening, touching, and often sad for a story about success and fame. Thumbs up from me.

[shiki-jitsu]

Finishing up another Torchwood book. I need to order the next couple books in the series.

[Alien Redrum]

Reading this for review.

Really fucking digging it.

[Neon Maniac]

I'm just starting Jim Butcher's Grave Peril. It's book #3 in the Harry Dresden books. I'm enjoying this series so far. It's way better than the Dresden Files TV show. The first book was great, the second not as good but still entertaining. Highly reccomended so far. No opinion on the current one yet.