Webstar, try Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan's The Strain trilogy. Erase the TV show from memory first.
Reading: Honeymoon in Hell - Frederic Brown. Interesting but maybe a little too quirky for me. I'm about to start Heinlein's "lost" novel, For Us, the Living.
Currently reading Deeper by Jeff Long.
Started and finished the Colorado Kid yesterday. It was ok, not the best but I didn't hate it. Still going strong on Fall of Hyperion, very dense and taking me awhile.
Started Misery over the weekend. I'm about 30 pages in and really enjoying it so far. I have tickets to see the play on the 19th and am going to try and finish the book before then.
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Swan Song is pretty good.
So is Brian Hodge's Dark Advent: excellent read!
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The Road and Cat's Cradle.
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Yes. The Stand is certainly a go-to as well in that sub-genre.The Road and Cat's Cradle.
I'm waltzing my way through Rebel without a Crew. It's a fascinating account of how Robert Rodriguez made his first feature film, El Mariachi, told through his journal passages. Insightful and witty. I'm also re-reading Lemons Never Lie for fiction right now.
Not sure how I forgot The Stand.
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You get 5 days in the hole for that.
Blood Music by Greg Bear is a great read and a fairly unique take on that genre. Another one that I personally love is The Devil Next Door by Tim Curran. It reminded me a bit of King's Cell, but a much more disturbingly gruesome and ultraviolent story. Reader beware for that one.
Better than five days in the chokey.You get 5 days in the hole for that.
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Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out.
Restarted Wolves of the Calla after I put down the series last October.
I second recommendations for The Stand (obviously) and Cat's Cradle. I've heard great things about The Road, but haven't managed to read that one yet. I Am Legend is also a great end of world book, with a vampire twist!
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I couldn't get through Heinlein's For Us, The Living. Some neat ideas that he later used or improved upon. I liked the one where every war needs a referendum. For people for war, the enlisting information is on the back of the ballot and they have to report tomorrow. This apparently cut down on the mob mentality. When it was time act, civilians eager to send others to war proved to be as disinclined as soldiers who also voted no. Wars still happened but you really had to believe in them.
I did read his Time for the Stars in a day though. Adventure, science, ideas, and great pacing. Also finished Final Conversations with Philip K. Dick. An intimate look into a complex mind. He discusses and basically plots his unpublished novel Owl in the Daylight during the interview.
I'm sticking with Heinlein: The Man Who Sold the Moon.
The Road is great. It's practically bereft of levity, though.
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I am really enjoying Bazaar of Bad Dreams more than I expected.
Damn, really? I stopped about a fourth of the way through. None of the stories really captured me.
Yeah I haven't gone back to it yet either. But I've never really been a huge fan of his short stories.
Agreed.The Road is great. It's practically bereft of levity, though.
All four are very different, but all good books.
Currently reading, THE GHOST BRIGADES, by John Scalzi.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
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To me, it's his weakest collection.
I picked up Anna Karenina again. I didn't put it down because I didn't like it, quite the opposite, in fact. I just got sidetracked doing other stuff.
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Midnight's Lair by Richard Laymon
Listening to The Silent Hour by Michael Koryta
That's part of the Lincoln Perry series, right? I've read all but one of Koryta's stand-alone books, but haven't read any of the LP series.
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