What are you currently reading?

[Girlystevedave]

I just started Blake Crouch's Dark Matter last night.

It's about time

I've wanted to read it for a while, but was sort of "saving" it. I finally say eff it and ordered it last week.

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I just started Blake Crouch's Dark Matter last night.

It's about time

100% Blake is the man. I REALLY hope for more good stuff from him

Other than the Pines series (which was one of the best series I've ever read), I haven't read any of his other books yet. YET.
I think I've probably asked before, but which books would you guys recommend I read next?

[biomieg]

I would like to know, too (having read the Wayward Pines trilogy and Black Matter but nothing else, so far).

[Ricky]

Heather will tell you all to read Run, but don't listen to her.

[Tommy]

I liked Serial Killers Uncut which is a collection of works by three different writers and Blake is one of them.

[Heather19]

Heather will tell you all to read Run, but don't listen to her.

Yes, Run. And please listen to me and ignore Ricky

Amanda, I thought you read some of his other books, Draculas? Or was that your mom?

My rankings of his books would be:
Wayward Pines series
Run
Dark Matter
Fully Loaded (his collection of short stories)
Abandon
Snowbound
Draculas
Eerie
Famous (I actually remember nothing about this one aside from the fact that it was a very different style of writing from all his other books)
Desert Places (didn't care for this one so haven't read the remaining ones in the trilogy)
And I haven't read Serial Killers Uncut for that reason too, but maybe I'll get to it sometime.
I haven't finished Good Behavior yet either, but I did love the first Letti Dobesh book.

[Girlystevedave]

Heather will tell you all to read Run, but don't listen to her.

That's right. I do remember you two disagreeing about Run.

I liked Serial Killers Uncut which is a collection of works by three different writers and Blake is one of them.

I just looked that one up. It looks like it's a compilation of stories about the villains from the authors' novels? I'll have to keep that in mind if I read some of the stand-alone books and want to delve into the characters some more.

Heather will tell you all to read Run, but don't listen to her.

Yes, Run. And please listen to me and ignore Ricky

Amanda, I thought you read some of his other books, Draculas? Or was that your mom?

My rankings of his books would be:
Wayward Pines series
Run
Dark Matter
Fully Loaded (his collection of short stories)
Abandon
Snowbound
Draculas
Eerie
Famous (I actually remember nothing about this one aside from the fact that it was a very different style of writing from all his other books)
Desert Places (didn't care for this one so haven't read the remaining ones in the trilogy)
And I haven't read Serial Killers Uncut for that reason too, but maybe I'll get to it sometime.
I haven't finished Good Behavior yet either, but I did love the first Letti Dobesh book.

Cool, thanks Heather.

You know, I started the Good Behavior book a while back but didn't really get sucked into it very much. I think that, having read the Pines series first, I may have a hard time getting into his books that are not full of as much mystery and suspense. Pines had that other world feel to it that kept you on the edge of your seat, trying to figure out what was going on. I hope that didn't spoil me so much that I don't enjoy his other books.
To be honest, I think that's why I haven't read anything else by him yet. But when Dark Matter came out, the description intrigued me.

Would you say that any of the books you listed have that suspenseful feel to them?


And, yes, it was my mom that read Draculas.

[Heather19]

I think Run does and Dark Matter to an extent. And possibly Abandon a little bit. They're not of the same scope that the Pines series is. But the first two are of the same quality at least. And did you not enjoy the first Letty Dobesh book? I really enjoyed it, and it had some twists I wasn't expecting.

[Lovejoygirl14]

I am currently reading Dark Screams volume 5, and The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman. I'm trying to finish by the end of this months that'll put me at 10 books for January on my goodreads.lol

[Girlystevedave]

I think Run does and Dark Matter to an extent. And possibly Abandon a little bit. They're not of the same scope that the Pines series is. But the first two are of the same quality at least. And did you not enjoy the first Letty Dobesh book? I really enjoyed it, and it had some twists I wasn't expecting.

Yeah, I'm afraid Pines spoiled me.

Also, I didn't know there was a first Letty Dobesh book. I guess it's a good thing I didn't read to far into Good Behavior if there was a story that came before it.

[Heather19]

Good Behavior is just the collection of the three Letty Dobesh stories combined into 1 vol. I read the first one previously because it was included in his other short story collection. On a side note have you guys seen the TV series? I watched the first few but couldn't really get into it

[Girlystevedave]

I gotcha. Good Behavior is the one I've got. I may get around to reading it one day, but I just wasn't feeling it at the time.


I didn't check out any of the tv show. When I found out it was based on a Blake Crouch book, it made me want to check out the story first. Of course, we see how that worked out. Maybe I'll get around to reading it sometime in 2030. haha

[Brian861]

I am currently reading Dark Screams volume 5, and The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman. I'm trying to finish by the end of this months that'll put me at 10 books for January on my goodreads.lol

I'm a huge BJF fan! Love his stuff.

[Heather19]

I gotcha. Good Behavior is the one I've got. I may get around to reading it one day, but I just wasn't feeling it at the time.


I didn't check out any of the tv show. When I found out it was based on a Blake Crouch book, it made me want to check out the story first. Of course, we see how that worked out. Maybe I'll get around to reading it sometime in 2030. haha

They changed the TV show from the first book, not sure about the others since I haven't read them yet. But the show just got blah fast.

[Tommy]

Heather will tell you all to read Run, but don't listen to her.

That's right. I do remember you two disagreeing about Run.

I liked Serial Killers Uncut which is a collection of works by three different writers and Blake is one of them.

I just looked that one up. It looks like it's a compilation of stories about the villains from the authors' novels? I'll have to keep that in mind if I read some of the stand-alone books and want to delve into the characters some more.

Heather will tell you all to read Run, but don't listen to her.

Yes, Run. And please listen to me and ignore Ricky

Amanda, I thought you read some of his other books, Draculas? Or was that your mom?

My rankings of his books would be:
Wayward Pines series
Run
Dark Matter
Fully Loaded (his collection of short stories)
Abandon
Snowbound
Draculas
Eerie
Famous (I actually remember nothing about this one aside from the fact that it was a very different style of writing from all his other books)
Desert Places (didn't care for this one so haven't read the remaining ones in the trilogy)
And I haven't read Serial Killers Uncut for that reason too, but maybe I'll get to it sometime.
I haven't finished Good Behavior yet either, but I did love the first Letti Dobesh book.

Cool, thanks Heather.

You know, I started the Good Behavior book a while back but didn't really get sucked into it very much. I think that, having read the Pines series first, I may have a hard time getting into his books that are not full of as much mystery and suspense. Pines had that other world feel to it that kept you on the edge of your seat, trying to figure out what was going on. I hope that didn't spoil me so much that I don't enjoy his other books.
To be honest, I think that's why I haven't read anything else by him yet. But when Dark Matter came out, the description intrigued me.

Would you say that any of the books you listed have that suspenseful feel to them?


And, yes, it was my mom that read Draculas.

I had never read anything by any of those authors and still enjoyed SKU very much. It does make me want to read more from all of them eventually.

[TacomaDiver]

Agreed - read Overture afterwards. Or better yet, skip it. It was pretty bad and added nothing to the series.

Picked up Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series from the library the other day along with The Sandman: Overture. Is the Overture to be read before or after I complete the series? Thanks!

After. It has many references to the original series and story points which depend on familiarity.

[WeDealInLead]

Yesterday I finished Time Is the Simplest Thing by Delany. I'm 2/3 done with Clarke's Islands in the Sky. Making progress with The Best of Nancy Kress. Incredible writing, incredible stories.

I'm also reading Tomie, a graphic novel by Junji Ito. Eerie stuff. Drawn in b&w too, no glossy Photoshop backgrounds, thank you very much.

[Theli]

Yesterday I finished Time Is the Simplest Thing by Delany. I'm 2/3 done with Clarke's Islands in the Sky. Making progress with The Best of Nancy Kress. Incredible writing, incredible stories.

I'm also reading Tomie, a graphic novel by Junji Ito. Eerie stuff. Drawn in b&w too, no glossy Photoshop backgrounds, thank you very much.

My GF loves Ito. I've only read a bit, the first Uzumaki graphic novel, and I will concur. Great art and eerie stories. I look forward to reading more.

[Girlystevedave]

Almost done with Blake Crouch's Dark Matter.

[Heather19]

And....

[Girlystevedave]

And....

I'm really enjoying it. I've got maybe 30 pages left and plan to finish it today

(maybe while I'm waiting in the car to pick Jacob up from school today. )

[Mattrick]

And...then its on the next Mattrick mattsterpiece :p

[Girlystevedave]

I do need to start your book! I'm actually thinking of looking into seeing if there is a way to send the doc to my kindle so I can read it from there.

If there's an obvious way to do that, someone please tell me..

[Heather19]

I think it can read pdf's if you can convert it.

[Jean]

if we are talking about one and the same Mattrick book, then:

a) it's extremely good
b) I have a .mobi file
c) anything can be converted to .mobi if you download calibre, for example from here: https://calibre-ebook.com/download

[Girlystevedave]

I think it can read pdf's if you can convert it.

I'll look into that.

if we are talking about one and the same Mattrick book, then:

a) it's extremely good
b) I have a .mobi file
c) anything can be converted to .mobi if you download calibre, for example from here: https://calibre-ebook.com/download

1. I bet it's good. I already read his book, The Need, and really enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to reading this one that he recently sent me.
2. I saw mention of caliber online, but didn't know if it was legit. I'll have to look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.