I loved Cell! King is so reliable.

Yep loved it. I agree that it is pretty dark, but very enjoyable.

I just finished Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. Its a bit of an epic about the famous Japanese samurai. Fantastic read, alot of very memorable characters and very rich in all its settings. A beautiful writen novel I’d strongly recommend it to anyone even slightly interested in Japanese culture, particular the way of the samurai.

I also just finished World War Z by Max Brooks. Goddamn I enjoyed it. It’s a history of the great zombie outbreak told in the form of interviews with many many survivors in chronological order. It’s so good. If you’re a zombie fan, its an absolute must read. I already want to read it again. He also wrote ‘The Zombie Survival Guide’ which is a good read too, and so realistic and informative that its almost scary.:D

Well, since I read somewhere between 5 and 10 books per month, I guess my list is perhaps a tad long.

Just recently (since Christmas) I’ve finished Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys, Orson Scott Card’s First Meetings, Nicholas Pekearo’s first and only published The Wolfman and Lois McMaster Bujould’s Falling Free and Spirit Ring.
Right now I’m reading Terry Goodkind’s The Sword Of Truth series, Dean Koontz’ Frankenstein series, Robert Jordan’s Wheel Of Time series, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.
Next up are Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere and American Gods, Douglas Adams’ HHGTTG collection, Stephen King’s Carrie for the first time, hopefully Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, and a re-read of both The Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter series.
After that I’m looking to buy a few of James Patterson’s Alex Cross series, Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series and Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series.

Phew! 🙂

I read constantly, usually kill one a week. This week I’m working on Monster by Frank Peretti. It’s kinda weird in the way it’s basically two separate books at once.

The first book is a high tension horror-adventure of a guy trying to track down a literal monster that kidnapped his wife, while at the same time trying to convince the authorities that it’s a monster and NOT a bear they’re tracking down.

The other half is an anti-evolution screed as the protagonist’s scientist best friend tries to track down the creature’s origins, which is complicated by the fact that he just got fired from his science job for being a Creationist (why the hell ain’t he suing for discrimination?). So far he’s proven that the monster was genetically engineered by the evil evolution scientists who know they’re lying about Creationism being wrong, but still try to prove evolution happened anyway by making a missing link moster with science….or something.

The first book is tightly paced and damn good. Why Mr. Peretti grafted on the wandering, seemingly unrelated second is a mystery to me.

After that I’m starting up on Death Troopers. I was physically compelled to buy this book. It’s a zombie apocalypse set on board a super star destroyer in the Star Wars universe during the time of the original trilogy. Tell me that sentence is not made of awesome.

I second the love for King. The only time he’s ever let me down is The Stand. It’s awful, wandering, and seems almost pointless by the end. But I seem to be in the minority on that opinion.

Isn’t that his how shtick? Making you laugh at shit you shouldn’t be, or just seriously grossing you out?

Still, I got to say I jumped the Palahniuk ship after Ghost Stories. That one was just trying too hard. Cannibal baby soup anyone? The nazi feminists basically raping that chick because they thought she was a transsexual? I’m okay with perversion and over the top violence,hell, done well it’s fun as hell, but all that just seemed like it was done for shock value alone. It may have been the point, but frankly, Palahniuk books always leave me depressed and in need of a good Terry Pratchett novel.

Frankly if you want dark done right, you got to go with Kurt Vonnegut or Cormac McCarthy every time.

Invisible Monsters was pretty damn good though…though Fight Club the book sucks my left nut. That’s the bad one you know. It’s vinegary.

Oh. Hell. Yes. The Zombie Survival Guide is the closest thing to a religion I have, and World War Z is just plain brilliant in my book. You ought to try it on audio book. It’s only available abridged and is something like 10 hours long, but it just adds something to hear the words actually spoken. Doesn’t hurt that they hired some seriously talented voice actors. You can snag it for free via torrent over at Pirate Bay.

Love. Peace. Metallica.

I totally agree. After reading Cell I got recommended to read The Stand and was daunted simply by the size of it!! I read it on a holiday and it completely bored me… I finished it simply because I wanted to see if it got good at all! I didn’t get it at all…

i’ve been reading less than zero by brett easten ellis… its not as good as his other works.

im about half way through Excavation by James Rollins. and i read the Judas Strain before that, also by Rollins. i really like thriller type stuff:D