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I am a member of Good Reads too but prefer LivingSocial because you can get recommendations based on your book shelf. What should I read next is great too because you can select certain books from your collection and get recommendations based on just those books rather than your whole...

Clive Barker

I have read these and highly recommend them. Unfortunately, Clive Barker's dalliance with horror didn't extend much beyond these short stories and a few of short novels/novella ("Cabal", "Damnation Game" and "Hellbound Heart") before he focused on dark fantasy novels. He is masterful and...

Hey Ronny, How are you finding "The Naked Lunch"? I started reading it about a month ago and am about halfway through it but have put it down because it feels like one of those books that continuity isn't really a feature. So I guess that I will pick it up and put it down until I finish it...

Thanks to everyone for their advice. Looks like its "Kite Runner" followed by "On Beauty" then "Perfume". I have about 90 pages left of "Last Exit To Brooklyn". It is an intesting read about a group of edgy characters sent in post-war New York. It is reminescent of "Blindness" in that...

The new MURS/9th Wonder Collabo... "Sweet Lord". If you liked the other two they did together, this one would probably satisfy!

I read a great book of short stories earlier this year called "Rust and Bone" by Craig Davidson. Here is a snippet from Amazon : A strong stomach, an open mind and a morbid sense of humor are essential to enjoying Davidson's accomplished, macabre first collection. Calamity lurks around every...

I enjoyed the movie but I think it was because throughout my childhood, my mother had said how horrible a movie it was and to never see it. Naturally when it got re-released (90's sometime I think), I couldn't see it fast enough. Not a great movie but it did try to be loyal with Anthony Burgess'...

He climbed from Sooker and the snow was drifting.

I have grabbed some books off the "1001 Books To Read Before You Die" list as well as some others that have been recommended here and was wondering what everyone thought I should read next from the pile. Here is what I have: The Colour -Rose Tremain On Beauty - Zadie Smith The Red Queen...

I grabbed a handful of titles from the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" list from my local library and think that I will choose "Thursbitch" by Alan Garner as my next read. Anyone read this and think I should or shouldn't??

I have read "Heart Shaped Box" recently and found it pretty interesting. I also respect the fact that he is Stephen King's son but doesn't use his father's famous name - that's not to say it hasn't helped him along the way!

I'm in Boston, listening to a wise old man discussing life with a former student...

My guess was something like a letterhead that contained his name, thus the "no surprises" angle that was mentioned. I thought The Coma was OK book but nothing special and I constantly was thinking "wonder what his publishers thought when he handed this in"...