What Book Are You Reading?

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Since that last post, I read (too many to add pix):

-World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
-Taltos (The Mayfair Chronicles Book 3) by Anne Rice
-Masters of the Universe (Golden Books): Caverns of Fear by Mary Carey
-Masters of the Universe (Golden Books): The Trap by W.B. DuBay
-Octopussy by Ian Fleming
-Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Me and all the Other Peanuts Characters by Charles M. Shulz with R. Smith Kiliper
-Bond on Set: Filming 007: Casino Royale by Greg Williams
-Local Haunts: A HorrorTube Anthology; edited by R. Saint Claire
-Merrick by Anne Rice
-A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (re-read)
-Audrey Hepburn: An Elegant Spirit by Sean Hepburn Ferrer
-The Bible (King James)
-Blood and Gold by Anne Rice

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Currently reading Aliens Phalanx by Scott Sigler

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Since my last post, I seem to alternate Star Trek books with Vietnam books:

-Star Trek: Firestorm (#68) by L.A. Graf
-Pathfinder: First In, Last Out by Richard R. Burns
-Starlight by Scott Ely
-Star Trek: The Next Generation: Into the Nebula (#36) by Gene DeWeese
-Wayne’s War by Wayne Myles Burton

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Alien: Prototype. By Tim Waggoner

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Currently reading Star Trek: The Next Generation: Gulliver’s Fugitives (#11) by Keith Sharee

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Last book I read was Ready Player Two.

I dunno. I really enjoyed the first book, but this one just didn't engage me the same way. Also there is clearly a disconnect between what the author thinks is a cool new technology, and what I think is one. His world-building extrapolations of the effect of said technology (which I thought sounded pretty horrifying, personally, at least in one aspect- the one he though would change the world the most) were...implausible to my mind.
And the "happy ending" also seemed rather problematic, too. Maybe there was just too much worldview dissonance.

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Alien: Into Charybdis by Alex White


I think I enjoyed the characters more than the story because things got way too technical for me and I could not mentally picture the layout of the land or where they were, even with a 1 page diagram of the....place(?).

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Robert E. Howard's The Bloody Crown of Conan (vol. 2 of 3 in Ballantine's complete collection).

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This is more like a narrative history than a proper novel, but not bad so far.
I wish he would just hurry up and finish The Winds of Winter, though.
We may never get to see A Promise of Spring at this rate.

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Been reading this mostly on Sundays to spread it out (it's 600+ pages of very dense theology):

Reformed Dogmatics vol. 1: Prolegomena

by Herman Bavinck

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Just finished 2 more monster novels.


Up from the Deep by Vaughn A. Jackson


Despite a generic title, this tale was spectacular for the Kaiju fan in particular and horror fans as a whole. The human drama works well and the author did the one thing I absolutely love: he told parts of the story from the Kaiju's point of view (expressed as periodical "interludes" throughout the tale). Its also somewhat of a tearjerker towards the end on a few levels.



Arachnoid by Michael Cole


I read a lot of this author's material during my mecha anime getaway from life, and he does have the gift to create true horror, just needs to refine it a little. Great source material (giant altered specimen breaks loose, creates hell for the people on a dead end road, mad scientist, lovey dovey couple, drinkers and pot smokers, hunters who specialize in abnormal quarry, etc) and it almost goes by the F13 rules verbatim, but the deaths of a concerned son and his wife were what broke the rules. Human drama was on par, better than most but not quite as enthralling as the previous book. Take it for a spin, see what you think.

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Crocalypse by David Wood and Alan Baxter


Don't let the silly title fool you, this is actually a really good book and entry in the Sam Aston Investigations series. Yes, crocs appear in the book, but the main attraction is the prehistoric Razana, a longtime relative of the common crocadile/alligator. It gets off to a bit of a slow start, but when it finally gets rolling, heads are gonna roll (into the mouth of the Razana). Haha.

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Lead by Paul David Tripp



Been reading this for a group I meet with monthly.