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I can tell you how it ends if you want me to.

 

Seeing as it's been over a month since my last post and I still haven't read any more of it, I may take you up on that....

SciFiCanuk:

greggC:

too late, teresa, two chapters in and already i am HOOKED!

i did know that there were other books in the series. but this is the first one i have seen and i have gotten too lazy now to just hold every series book in abeyance until i can find the ones preceding and read them first.

mind you, that is NOT a hard and fast rule. there are a couple series books that are sitting waiting for me to find their sibs (the Anita Blake ones for instance, but only because i HAVE read the first one, Guilty Pleasures, after reading Lunatic Café first on purpose for the werewolf-focus. now i have Circus of the Damned sitting at the office but it is waiting until i can get The Laughing Corpse. and then there are ALL those other books in the series...

 

at home right now finished reading "The Were-Wolf" by Clemenceau Houseman, a novelette originally printed in Atalante magazine in mid-1890s, and included in Brian J. Frost's anthology, Book of the Werewolf. now back to reading next half of The Anubis Gates by Powers. also started reading Borchardt's Night of the Wolf.

 

lord, so many books and so very little time!

Hahaha, yeah I heard it's a good series...it's at the top of my list too.  :-)  Can't wait.  I'm in the same boat as you....soooo many books I want to read and wish I had more time, although the orchids, housework, animals and my daughter are getting a little neglected anyways, LOL!

Funny you should mention Anita Blake...I finished Kim Harrison's For a Few Demons More (she killed off a MAJOR character....boy that was traumatic.  I'm still recovering), and her next one The Outlaw Demon Wails is out next Tuesday so I have to wait a bit...I CAN'T FREAKING WAIT!!!  Anyhow.... haha  I decided on Laurell K. Hamilton and just started Guilty Pleasures...awesome book so far.  I'm stopping in to get The Laughing Corpse some time this week.  I am hoping to finish all 15 of them in the next couple of months.  I can only read one at a time though!

Man, and just think less than a year ago I didn't like to read....at all.  Too funny.

 

gonna borrow a line from TT here...

 

Teresa, you're a fink!

you wicked evil diabolical literary TEMPTRESS!!!!!

a series of fantasy novels based on Clint Eastwood film titles?

oh, Creator save and protect me...HOW CAN I RESIST??????????????????????

okay, now i have ANOTHER author name and book titles to bear in mind the next time i get to wander into a book store...

AND IT IS ALL TERESA/SCIFI CANUCK'S FAULT!

 

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

greggC:

SciFiCanuk:

greggC:

too late, teresa, two chapters in and already i am HOOKED!

i did know that there were other books in the series. but this is the first one i have seen and i have gotten too lazy now to just hold every series book in abeyance until i can find the ones preceding and read them first.

mind you, that is NOT a hard and fast rule. there are a couple series books that are sitting waiting for me to find their sibs (the Anita Blake ones for instance, but only because i HAVE read the first one, Guilty Pleasures, after reading Lunatic Café first on purpose for the werewolf-focus. now i have Circus of the Damned sitting at the office but it is waiting until i can get The Laughing Corpse. and then there are ALL those other books in the series...

 

at home right now finished reading "The Were-Wolf" by Clemenceau Houseman, a novelette originally printed in Atalante magazine in mid-1890s, and included in Brian J. Frost's anthology, Book of the Werewolf. now back to reading next half of The Anubis Gates by Powers. also started reading Borchardt's Night of the Wolf.

 

lord, so many books and so very little time!

Hahaha, yeah I heard it's a good series...it's at the top of my list too.  :-)  Can't wait.  I'm in the same boat as you....soooo many books I want to read and wish I had more time, although the orchids, housework, animals and my daughter are getting a little neglected anyways, LOL!

Funny you should mention Anita Blake...I finished Kim Harrison's For a Few Demons More (she killed off a MAJOR character....boy that was traumatic.  I'm still recovering), and her next one The Outlaw Demon Wails is out next Tuesday so I have to wait a bit...I CAN'T FREAKING WAIT!!!  Anyhow.... haha  I decided on Laurell K. Hamilton and just started Guilty Pleasures...awesome book so far.  I'm stopping in to get The Laughing Corpse some time this week.  I am hoping to finish all 15 of them in the next couple of months.  I can only read one at a time though!

Man, and just think less than a year ago I didn't like to read....at all.  Too funny.

 

gonna borrow a line from TT here...

 

Teresa, you're a fink!

you wicked evil diabolical literary TEMPTRESS!!!!!

a series of fantasy novels based on Clint Eastwood film titles?

oh, Creator save and protect me...HOW CAN I RESIST??????????????????????

okay, now i have ANOTHER author name and book titles to bear in mind the next time i get to wander into a book store...

AND IT IS ALL TERESA/SCIFI CANUCK'S FAULT!

 

Hahaha, glad I could help!    If it makes you feel any better I have 107 books on my "to read" list now....   LOL!  I really need to STOP looking at the Amazon website.  It's probably a good thing that paperbacks are only $10 or $11!  hehe

Happy reading Gregg!

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Teresa
aka SciFiCanadian
aka SciFi Canuck

...and just for fun - another author I recommend you add to your list ~snicker~  Don't know if you've heard of Kelly Armstrong...wonderful Canadian author and my daughter's favorite.  She's at the top of my list as well.  According to my daughter they are fantastic!  The stories are a mixture of witches/magic, were's & vampires. 

1)      Bitten
2)      Stolen
3)      Dime Store Magic
4)      Industrial Magic
5)      Haunted
6)      Broken
7)      No Humans Involved
8)      Personal Demon

 

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Teresa
aka SciFiCanadian
aka SciFi Canuck

ha ha, BEAT YOU!

picked up copy of Bitten several years ago in Revelstoke.

of course then it sat in the "to be read" pile until last year.

but once i read it...I LOVED IT!!!!

strong characters, good action, excellent plot, and an original take on the whole werewolf storytelling device.

since then got all the online fiction of hers.

got her website bookmarked.

joined her discussion board group though only posted a couple times.

have not seen any of the other hardcopy books yet, though.

pity.

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

Hahaha!  Well to you!  My daughter is eagerly antipating her next book...think it's due out in March or April.

I can't get her to read any other books though!  ~scratches head~  She only likes Kelly Armstrong....oh well...I'm still working on her.

The Outlaw Demon Wails just shipped for me yesterday....I am so freaking excited.  Sooooooo many questions from the last book and a HUGE death/murder they need to solve.  So I know you mentioned the titles being based on Clint Eastwood movies....I actually read that she is a huge CE fan so that would be the reason, LOL!

So I am now reading The Laughing Corpse by LKH...good book so far.  Lots of humour too....I love it!  Just have to finish it before my Kim Harrison book arrives!  haha

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Teresa
aka SciFiCanadian
aka SciFi Canuck

well, lessee now...what have we plowed through so far since the last time i posted on the board...

finished up to chapter 25 of Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (an old Victorian penny-dreadful that is available for download through the Gutenberg Project); finished From a Buick 8 (excellent Stephen King); finished Three Hearts and Three Lions (Poul Anderson fantasy classic); finished Vampirella: On Alien Wings (fun Ron Goulart); halfway through re-read of The Frankenstein Diaries (Rev. Hubert Venables...i'm serious, that is the accreditation on the cover); halfway through a Weird Tales best of anthology (Marvin Kaye, editor); about one-quarter read on Night of the Wolf (Alice Borchardt's fine werewolf trilogy second book); close to halfway through Kitty and the Silver Bullet (magnificent Carrie Vaughn novel); up to number 10 of The Upanishads (and this is the LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG one, folks!); reading "Pia!" (Dale C. Donaldson), last story in Brian Frost anthology, Book of the Werewolf: almost halfway through Tesseracts 10 anthology; started Dark Matter: Rattling the Bones anthology of black sf-fantasy; another three chapters, approx 30 pages left in The Village in the Treetops (Jules Verne); about a third through Twice Bitten: Love in Vein 2 anthology of vampire erotica (Poppy Z. Brite, editor, though i do not find much erotic about a lot of the stories...though several are good pieces of fiction); and working way through the elegies of Theognis, part of a Penguin Classics anthology of Hesiod ("Theogeny" and "Works and Days") and Theognis ("Elegies"); finished The Ultimate Book of Dinosaurs (no, it is NOT!) and begun the one-volume Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (which looks to have more info than Ultimate did).

okay, we got everybody now? yeah, looks like.

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

I have just started reading Everville by Clive Barker , it's the second part of the "Art" trilogy
the first of which is The Great and Secret Show. The scope of this series is just amazing
I'll give an out line of how it starts

The novel is about the conflict between two highly evolved men - Randolph Jaffe and Richard Fletcher - over the mystical dream sea called Quiddity. Jaffe hopes to tap into Quiddity's power while Fletcher wants to prevent it from being tainted. The conflict between the two men spills into the real world in a decades-long feud, distorting reality and affecting the entire human race.

 With The Great & Secret Show I found that it was one of those books that would cross many genres
while remaining it's own thing at the same time, with Everville I'm finding the same altho I'm not very
far in yet. The only down side is that Barker has not even started to write the third in the series yet
so who knows how long we'll have to wait seeing as how G&SS was released in 89 & Everville 94.
Any ways a breif discription of Everville

Everville tells the story of a small town of the same name, from its creation to transformation over the years. Several characters populate the book, some from our world and others from Quiddity, the vast universe / Afterlife / other place hinted at in the first book of the series. Noteworthy characters include detective Harry D'Amour from previous Barker works (most notably his Lord of Illusions story) as well as a few from book one of the series.

If anyone else has read these books I would really like to discuss them.

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Philip K. ***

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greggC:

well, lessee now...what have we plowed through so far since the last time i posted on the board...

finished up to chapter 25 of Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (an old Victorian penny-dreadful that is available for download through the Gutenberg Project); finished From a Buick 8 (excellent Stephen King); finished Three Hearts and Three Lions (Poul Anderson fantasy classic); finished Vampirella: On Alien Wings (fun Ron Goulart); halfway through re-read of The Frankenstein Diaries (Rev. Hubert Venables...i'm serious, that is the accreditation on the cover); halfway through a Weird Tales best of anthology (Marvin Kaye, editor); about one-quarter read on Night of the Wolf (Alice Borchardt's fine werewolf trilogy second book); close to halfway through Kitty and the Silver Bullet (magnificent Carrie Vaughn novel); up to number 10 of The Upanishads (and this is the LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG one, folks!); reading "Pia!" (Dale C. Donaldson), last story in Brian Frost anthology, Book of the Werewolf: almost halfway through Tesseracts 10 anthology; started Dark Matter: Rattling the Bones anthology of black sf-fantasy; another three chapters, approx 30 pages left in The Village in the Treetops (Jules Verne); about a third through Twice Bitten: Love in Vein 2 anthology of vampire erotica (Poppy Z. Brite, editor, though i do not find much erotic about a lot of the stories...though several are good pieces of fiction); and working way through the elegies of Theognis, part of a Penguin Classics anthology of Hesiod ("Theogeny" and "Works and Days") and Theognis ("Elegies"); finished The Ultimate Book of Dinosaurs (no, it is NOT!) and begun the one-volume Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (which looks to have more info than Ultimate did).

okay, we got everybody now? yeah, looks like.

Holy crap Gregg!!!!  I thought I was bad reading two books at a time....how do you keep it all straight?!  LOL

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Teresa
aka SciFiCanadian
aka SciFi Canuck

my mind is just naturally twisted, teresa. makes it sooooo much easier.

anyway, finished the Jules Verne book (not one of his better efforts and i don't the translator is at fault here either). Also finished the Brian Frost-edited werewolf anthology. on the last 100 pages of the Alice Borchardt novel and will start the last novel in the trilogy (The Wolf King) after a short-story break.

have begun reading Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf (George W.M. Reynolds), another Victorian gothic/pennydreadful originally published in 1890s as a magazine serial. not available yet through Gutenberg Project. i have a Dover Press large-size trade paperback copy. also begun reading The Cross of Frankenstein by Robert J. Myers (a pastiche/homage to the original novel, positing that the Creature survived after all and now tries to get the illegitimate son of Victor Frankenstein to help him from his new home base in America). have the sequel to this, The Slave of Frankenstein (guess which part of the States this is likely set in).

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

I finally finished Ellroy's The Cold Six Thousand. It's witing style forced me to do multiple start/stops while reading it. Though it may be alt. history, at times I felt like I was reading some horror-comedy book (description of Howard Hughes' takeover of Vegas casinos):

... He's coming. Check track 14. Behold the Drac Express. ... He'd braced Drac's Mormons. They talked renovation. They said they'd hit the DI. They said they'd Draculized. They germ-proofed the penthouse ... Littell laughed. Littell knew Drac strategy. Littell knew diversions. ... Mormons pushed a wheelchair. Mormons wheeled Drac. He's tall. He's thin. He's wearing a Kleenex-box hat. ... Ghouls positioned. Ghouls vultured. Ghouls swarmed the casino. Ghouls stood on chairs. Ghouls slung cameras. Ghouls perched with autograph books. ... TCST, pages 501-503

I have now moved from alt. history, to some actual history. I just started Mart Laar's Sinimäed 1944 (Blue Hills 1944). It's a look at battles in NE Estonia, during 1944 (Narva, Tannenberg Line and some others). This should take a bit of time, as my reading comprehension takes a hit, when switching to Estonian. I have an Esto-English dictionary on hand. LOL! C. Frost: Been ages since I've read any Clive Barker. First work of his I read was "Weaveworld", then I read "The Damnation Game", "Cabal" and "G&SS". I have "Imajica" on the bookshelf, which I have started and put down a number of times, over the years.

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"... The night was filled with magic as they bid the sea goodbye. They swam into the heavens-they stayed up in the sky and all the island people when they wish upon a star, see the Dolphin and the Jolly Mon, who tell them where they are..." - Jimmy Buffett

Just thought I would check in!  :-)  It was my birthday on Sunday and I got a $60 Chapters gift cert from my mom so I'm heading there today!!  Yah!

Not sure what I'm going to buy yet but I've read the first 8 LKH books already and am over half way through Obsidian Butterfly.  God I love this series!   I am sooooooooo glad she's got 15 going on 16 of these out in the Anita Blake series.  They have been so much fun to read.  I purchased the rest of them from Audrey's at the US price so I saved a bit of $$.  I'll be set for a while, but I may just purchase the rest of Carrie Vaughn's, Kitty Norville books (Steve have you read them all yet?)...I already have the first one.  Haven't read it yet though.  I've also got the first Vicki Pettersson book - Scent of Shadows: The First Sign of the Zodiac...I'll probably get the next one because people seem to be raving about them too.  I'm also tossing around purchasing the first few of Keri Arthur's, Riley Jensen - Guardian series books as well.

So may books, so little time....LOL!

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Teresa
aka SciFiCanadian
aka SciFi Canuck

at office started reading Mandricardo by Lin Carter, an old DAW paperback. at home started reading The Slave of Frankenstein by Robert J. Myers.

teresa, you are calgary area, right?

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

I just finished The World Set Free ,by H.G. Wells. courtesy of the Gutenberg Project

I'm currently reading Startide Rising, by David Brin 

greggC:

at office started reading Mandricardo by Lin Carter, an old DAW paperback. at home started reading The Slave of Frankenstein by Robert J. Myers.

teresa, you are calgary area, right?

Calgary area?  Well yes and no, LOL....I live in Edmonton so about 3 hours away. 

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Teresa
aka SciFiCanadian
aka SciFi Canuck