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Post by ✶April✶ on Feb 4, 2022 20:30:51 GMT -5
I picked up this book I saw at Costco, purely for the cover... which was an old-timey camera with a candle placed on top, the wax melting and dripping down onto the camera.
It's called Station Eleven and I found out afterwards that it recently came out as a TV show as well. It's an oddly timed book though, as it's about a virus (pandemic) that quickly wipes out the majority of the world, plunging the survivors into a world without electronic devices or anything else that we would deem normal now. It jumps back and forth between decades and is interesting how the story intertwines with the characters and what they've experienced.
I believe the book was written back in 2014 or 2015.
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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Feb 6, 2022 8:03:27 GMT -5
I'm reading a book by an author that was recommended to me. The Far Traveller by Manning Coles. It's a light read so far, and is fun. To save time here is the blurb: The Herr Graf was a familiar sight to the residents of the Rhineland village of Grauhugel. After all he'd been walking the halls of the local castle at night and occasionally nodding to the servants ever since he drowned some 86 years ago. No one was the least bit alarmed by the Graf's spectral walks. The castle's major domo found it all quite comforting. After all the young Graf had been quite popular while he was alive.When the actor hired to play the dead Graf in a movie is felled by an accident, the film's director is overjoyed to come across a talented replacement who seems to have been born to play the part, little realizing that the Graf and his faithful servant -- who perished in the same accident -- had only recently decided to materialize in public.The Graf isn't stagestruck. He's back among the living to correct an old wrong. Along the way, he adds a bit of realism to a cinematic duel, befuddles a blackmarketeer, breaks out of jail, and exposes a charlatan spiritualist. At the same time, his amorous servant Franz is in the grip of an awkward dilemma. What if he's pursuing the granddaughters of village maidens he dallied with eight decades in the past? I should add it was first published in 1956. So we are a bit like the character of the Graf in it; we are introduced to a different time, only the world we are reading about is in the past not the future, and the war is still a strong presence.
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Post by endo on Feb 9, 2022 18:19:54 GMT -5
Finishing up The Ruins by Scott Smith. Also a movie, but the book is much scarier to me, usually the case. Good book though and a fast read. No chapters or anything, just right into it.
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Post by NDX on Oct 27, 2022 19:31:23 GMT -5
I've been trying to go through a lot of the omnibuses I've purchased the last year. Which has been too many,but still not enough.
Currently on volume 2 of Thunderbolts, which was announced as a show with a lackluster cast compared to the books. In the books, the idea was villains masquerading as heroes after the big wigs disappeared, lead by Baron Zemo in an attempt to control the world. But alas, some of the villains actually liked being heroes, turned on him after revealing his betrayal to the world and are now seeking redemption in a world that hates them. Very much a late 90s comic where storytelling wasn't stretched out (or decompressed as the biz calls it) just for trade sales. It was a long standing, continuous story that was also told where if you missed as issue you weren't lost. Can't wait for vol 3 to come out next year.
Before this I read Johnathan Hickman's Fantastic Four/FF story, which still holds up a decade later as amazing scifi fare. And I hated his Avengers.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 31, 2022 4:23:29 GMT -5
Just finished reading Deserter, which is a collection of Junji Ito's earliest stories. It was really good, as I find most of his stuff to be.
Next up I'll be reading the unproduced screenplay of Alien 3. I've heard good things and am always interested in unused movie ideas
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Post by ✶April✶ on Dec 17, 2022 0:21:35 GMT -5
Currently reading And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones. It's a time-travel book that looked interesting. I'm reading it with a friend who is trying to get into reading more, so that's been pretty fun to have a 'reading buddy.' I've only read the prologue so far, so can't say much else about it.
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Post by NDX on Dec 20, 2022 11:16:11 GMT -5
Just finished reading iZombie. Great comic series the show did little to really capture.
Gotta figure out what to read next. Might do a deep dive into Marvel Cosmic.
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Post by NDX on Dec 28, 2022 1:59:17 GMT -5
Went with Frank Miller's Daredevil. I have both omnis, and his 2 Elektra books, so I technically have it all. Finally time to read it all.
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Post by Alice on Jan 26, 2023 18:49:26 GMT -5
I'm currently reading...... In every person's story, there is something to hide... The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer. Award-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with The Woman in the Library, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.
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Post by NDX on Feb 24, 2023 9:15:33 GMT -5
Decided to go back to some of my favorite comics and read the Milestone Compendium vol 1 put out by DC Comics.
Contains: Blood Syndicate #1-12 Hardware #1-12 Icon #1-10 Static #1-8 Xombi #0-11 Shadow Cabinet #0
For me this set is all about Icon and Xombi. I loved those characters, still do.
The approach to storytelling in these books are quite a site to revisit. Most books were very raw and dark, bringing up rough topics still discussed today. You almost don't expect them to reprint the comics as they were, language and all, but they did. Explains why the CCA stamp ain't on the covers to most of these books. A rarity for mainstream comics at the time.
It feels like it bridged a gap between all ages DC comics and their adult oriented Vertigo comics.
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 14, 2023 19:00:20 GMT -5
Finally started reading Kaiju No.8 and so far I like it
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Post by Alice on Apr 19, 2023 5:43:46 GMT -5
I'm currently reading "The Spite House" by Johnny Compton.
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Post by NDX on Jun 15, 2023 4:40:24 GMT -5
Decided to spend the next several weeks of my life devouring as much Moon Knight as I can. I have 3 of the 4 released omnibuses encompassing the first decade plus of his appearances.
I got into Moon Knight heavily in 2005 with the release of volume 6 written by Charlie Huston. He essentially took all of MK's history and streamlined it, but paid full respect to it all and took the implied schizophrenia and connection to an actual Egyptian god and made it all too real.
I have had a blast reading these old stories. Doug Moench wrote some amazing tales that blow modern day books away. Bill Sienkiewicz defined the book with his art, the darkness, the near horror of it all. It's a selling point alone. It feels so different from most of the other books coming out in 1981. One of the best ever.
I look forward to completing book 2 (about 300 pages in) and getting into 1990s funny books with Marc Spector: Moon Knight. Probably read drastically different but I can't wait to get into it.
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Post by Alice on Aug 20, 2023 9:38:16 GMT -5
This is what I'm currently reading.... Synopsis: This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer, and the children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, another terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin’s walls. Eliza realizes that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall’s long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past. Clever, captivating, and witty, This House Is Haunted is pure entertainment with a catch.
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Post by Trick ‘R Treat Fan on Oct 1, 2023 20:31:03 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Moon Rising by Tui T. Sutherland which is the sixth book in the Wings Of Fire book series.
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