What Are You Currently Reading?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

There are always the short stories (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale might ring a bell cough).

No, don't recall that one at all.

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I absolutely love Blade Runner but I have dipped in and out of this book and I just can't finish it it's a short book but my god I find it boring. Pages of talking about animals I just can't do it

I know I may be fed to the lions for this but I just can't get into it.

Not at all, totally agree. I've read a few Dick and for the most part rate his books. This was the first of his I read and found it tedious. Luckily I gave him another chance...

I loved A Scanner Darkly and remember really enjoying Martian Time-Slip and The Man in the High Castle. I keep meaning to read the The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch which is highly rated by critics, but haven't got around to it yet

[Demoncrat]

Palmer is about as far away from Sheep as it gets ahem. Enjoy!!!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I was planning to leave myself 100 pages of 'Salem's Lot for tonight, however with 106 pages to go last night a chapter finished with the words...The vampire's time has come.

What a place to finish and what an ominous line to pick up from in twenty minutes.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I was planning to leave myself 100 pages of 'Salem's Lot for tonight, however with 106 pages to go last night a chapter finished with the words...The vampire's time has come.

What a place to finish and what an ominous line to pick up from in twenty minutes.

Well you zipped through that Dem.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Just finished this evening All Hallows by Christopher Golden.

I really enjoyed it. Very Stephen King like in it's set up and it's setting Massachusetts, 1984.

Very readable, lovely and pacy with some genuine shocks. It's central premise involves folk horror, haunted woods and Trick or treating. Extremely well written with believable characters you care about, so it came as a little scary reminder* that novels get away with so much more than movies can. I was pretty much gripped from the first couple of chapters and ended up reading it in four sittings

Highly recommended. It's still available in Asda or Amazon for a fiver.

*I say this because it's been a long, long time since i read a horror novel, in fact i hadn't read a line of novelised fiction at all this year and then with this and 'Salem's Lot i've read two in two weeks. From nothing to over a thousand pages in a fortnight.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Hallows...=UTF8&qid=&sr=

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I'm now 100 pages into Richard Laymon's Night in the Lonesome October.

Although i've owned the book since the early 2000's i've never read it previously and selected it purely for it's October title. I never read the back cover so had no inclination of what it might be about.

Whatever preconceptions i may have had in my head they certainly weren't anything to do with the text i'm reading... and i should add really enjoying. In fact i'm heading back into the October night right now for another couple of hours.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Just finished Richard Laymon's Night in the Lonesome October. Only took four days as i was so enthralled in it's 469 pages.

The most un-Laymon like book i've read. Also the most unpredictable.

It's about a second year student at a Californian university who is unceremoniously dumped by the love of his life who studying in New York has shacked up with someone else.

Unable to sleep, Ed, as he's called, goes for a walk late one October night and things take off from there.

It's more about Ed's new relationship with his ex's room mate, Eileen, plus his friendship with a gay student who has the hots for him, and then there's Casey, who he meets on his nightly sojourns who visits many houses without seemingly having a home of her own. All the while we discover what goes on in our streets, parks and gardens whilst most of us sleep.

Although i enjoyed it and it certainly gripped me, Ed made some of the dumbest decisions imaginable which kind of frustrated whilst reading but it all resolved itself very nicely and quite gruesomely.

It's only the last thirty pages that stray into what i'd call proper Laymon territory.

Not the atmospheric October fest i was thinking it would be which was a shame.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Made a start on Revival by Stephen King this evening.

Can't believe this is almost ten years old.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Made a start on Revival by Stephen King this evening.



Can't believe this is almost ten years old.

You seem to be doing really well on the reading of late Dem. Wish I could read like that.

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