What to Read Next/ What Are Are You Reading?

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Principles and Practice of Radiation Therapy by Washington and Leaver

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Originally Posted by Shakey

Do you read a lot of Lovecraft? I used to read some but his stories kept going back and forth between being these amazing world creations to some of the most boring stuff I've ever read (I don't know how I made it through "At the Mountain of Madness" or whatever the correct title is), that said, do you have any suggestions?

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I really don't have too much info to give, but stick with the Penguin Books releases. They have been re-edited by a HPL scholar who worked from HPL's hand & type written manuscripts. So far I only have the one I mentioned above, but the quality of the editing & the selection of stories present is much better than the two older books I have had for years(Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror & the Macabre & The Transition Of H.P. Lovecraft) You really have to watch out for some of those collections out there, because they will have some HPL & some stories by other people who wrote in his style, but were nowhere near as good as HPL.

Biomechanic & Tracer could probably give you some more advice on what to look for. My personal favorites stories are:
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
Rats In the Walls

JM

Just read After the Quake, pretty good but damned tiny. I was rather expecting the stories to tie into each other a bit more by the end.

Doing light reading at the moment after so many past months of being entrenched in Lord of the Rings/ The Silmarillion/ etc

Currently:

- The three Halo novels, so sue me, I play the game alot and think these books are great, not the best written material in the world but good light reading

- The Ultimate Hitchhikers GD - my second time through

Taking a break from reading children of dune... a long one.

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Originally Posted by Tracer

Fantastic book. Got it last Christmas and read it in a day. A page turner.

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Same. I started it late and stayed up until about 7am with it.

Are the Halo novels really that good? I always assume someone's joking when they say they're reading a video game novel or Star Wars book.

I read one of the Halo novels, got it for free by buying a couple of books at Borders, can't remember which book it was, but it wasn't all that good.

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Originally Posted by JM

I really don't have too much info to give, but stick with the Penguin Books releases. They have been re-edited by a HPL scholar who worked from HPL's hand & type written manuscripts.

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You talking about S.T. Joshi? Anything edited/commented by him is the best there is. Mountains of Madness ranks among my HPL favorites, but it is a tad long-winded. Shakey, I'd recommend you stick with a collection of his shorter works, as the impact is much more focused. My favorite stories are Mountains, Pickman's Model, and The Call of Cthulhu - a couple of those are in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by HPL & Joshi. Check that out to start.

Just finished Blood Music by Greg Bear.

Now working on:

Worlds Enough & Time by Dan Simmons. Collection of 5 novellas, including one that revisits the Hyperion universe.

Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing by Martin Gardner. I dig cryptography.

Next up is Simmon's new one, Ilium, and Bear's Eon. I've been meaning to get to Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver but have heard bad stuff about it....anyone here read it?

Read The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Steven Chbosky a few weeks ago. Great, great book, and a really quick read.

Currently finishing up My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. Really digging it.

I decided to read Catch-22. I'm only a few pages in though due to school work.